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WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University officials are looking for long-term ways to save money because the school could be $70 million short over the next two-year budget cycle.
Budgets are already set for this fiscal year and the next. But Purdue says it could be $70 million short over the next biennium if state appropriations stay flat and there is no tuition increase.
Al Diaz, executive vice president for business and finance, said Purdue has already cut positions and withheld pay increases.
Now the school is starting to plan for long-term ways to operate in a slumping economy. Diaz said the school will review programs, compensation and other issues over the next five months.
An Indianapolis man convicted of killing three children and four adults during a home invasion robbery three years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Marion Superior Court Judge Robert Altice sentenced 31-year-old Desmond Turner on Friday after finding Turner guilty of seven counts of murder and other charges last month in a bench trial. Turner was sentenced to 88 additional years for the other charges.
Turner agreed to a bench trial so prosecutors would drop the death penalty. His attorney has said he plans to appeal the conviction.
South Bend residents outraged by a dog’s shooting death during a home robbery are collecting reward money they hope leads to the arrest of the dog’s killer.
Residents have collected more than $1,000 for two reward funds seeking information leading to the arrest of Linus’ killer. Owner Dan Warner found his ailing, three-legged Old English sheepdog shot dead when he returned home from work Nov. 9.
The 8-year-old dog had recently lost a front leg while fighting bone cancer.
Gina Oliver created one of the reward funds after reading about the disturbing crime. She says the robbers “crossed a line that no one should ever cross.”
South Bend Police Capt. Phil Trent says police are making progress in the case.
A Purdue University student has been arrested after a suspicious package led officials to evacuate a visitor information center on the West Lafayette campus.
Roy C. Sun, 21, of Andover, Mass., was being held Friday on suspicion of criminal mischief and possession of stolen property. He was being held in the Tippecanoe County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bond.
Authorities evacuated about 10 people from the Purdue University Visitor Information Center on Thursday after workers reported finding a suspicious box. Police found a wheel lock, a parking ticket and $20 inside.
Purdue Parking Services had written the ticket and placed the wheel lock on Sun’s car that the day because it displayed a parking permit that did not belong to him.
A Terre Haute church upset some residents with a message on its outdoor sign that mentioned Allah.
The sign outside Bible Baptist Church was recently posted with the message, “Jesus Died and Rose and Lives for You. What Did Allah Do.”
Saagarika Coleman says she was “horrified” when she saw the sign on her way to school. She says the message seems like an un-Christian challenge to Muslims.
Pastor Bob Parker told the Tribune-Star of Terre Haute the sign wasn’t meant to be derogatory toward Islam. He says its message simply meant that “the founder of Christianity still lives.”
The church changed the sign this week. Parker says the message changes weekly, and that he wasn’t concerned about negative reactions to the sign.
A group opposed to current health care legislation in Congress will rally today in downtown Indianapolis.
The group Doctors for Patient Care says it will stage a noon rally at the Indiana War Memorial with U.S. Rep. Dan Burton, R-5th.
Doctors for Patient Care describes itself as a group of physicians committed to the doctor-patient relationship, patients’ freedom of choice and affordable access to quality health care.
It says doctors and patients need to get involved in the debate to preserve the good qualities of the current system while fixing its problems.
