Indiana lawmakers unlikely to adopt lower drunken driving threshold

INDIANAPOLIS | Indiana's federal-phobic Legislature likely won't follow a national safety panel's recommendation that states reduce their drunken driving limits to 0.05 blood alcohol content from 0.08.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Catholicism caught between fascination, frustration

With the reign of Pope Benedict XVI having ended Thursday, Catholicism is at a crossroads.

Rare good news for eurozone economy

LONDON | Mention it quietly, but there were rare hopeful signs for Europe's struggling economy on Friday.

Mom goes viral with son's phone code of conduct

Janell Burley Hofmann honored her 13-year-old son's "maturity and growth" at Christmas with his first iPhone, but it came with strings attached.

Grafted veggies are next season's celebrity seeds

In many of the seed catalogs arriving soon in mailboxes, the headliners will be grafted vegetables, in which one or more different varieties grow from a single rootstock. Tomatoes seem to be the grafted transplants most frequently offered, providing greater disease tolerance, bigger harvests…

Glasses to fit the wine: Riedel's worldwide legacy

Wine glassware company Riedel says the right glass can make or break your wine. Maybe so, but perfection isn't cheap.

Wine experts: worst grape harvest in half century

Winemaker Cherie Spriggs had watched the bad weather over southern England's vineyards all season long. It just wasn't good enough for Nyetimber, her award-winning sparkling wine.

Olazabal won't return as 2014 Ryder Cup captain

LONDON | Describing the role as "torture" at times, victorious Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal ruled out the possibility of staying on for the 2014 competition at Gleneagles.

Weak investment returns will require higher pension payments

INDIANAPOLIS | Local governments and school corporations will pay higher employee pension contributions next year due to lackluster stock market earnings during the 2012 budget year that ended June 30.

Penske waiting for more info on Allmendinger

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. | AJ Allmendinger was silent Sunday, a day after NASCAR suspended him for failing a random drug test.

Hugh Jackman

This June 10, 2012 file photo shows actor Hugh Jackman arriving at the 66th Annual Tony Awards in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini /Invision/AP, file)

Asia braces for weaker exports as Europe stumbles

SINGAPORE | After supplying European customers for more than 40 years with neon bright ornamental fish, Shirley Lim is now looking elsewhere for sales.

Discovery Charter School Europe Expo

CHESTERTON | Discovery Charter School Middle School students completed their study of Europe by presenting a Europe Travel Expo. Parents, teachers, and fellow students were able to peruse the colorful booths to find out facts about all the different European countries. Travel brochures creat…

Valpo considers using food to generage energy at sewage plant

VALPARAISO | With rising eletric rates, it's no mystery why staff members at the city's sewage treatment plant are always looking for ways to be more efficient.

Interactive: The European financial crisis

Learn more about the financial crisis gripping Europe and its affects on U.S. markets.

Register for Valpo ethics luncheon by Monday

VALPARAISO | Monday morning is the deadline for the public to sign up to attend the Mayor's Government Ethics Roundtable luncheon at noon Wednesday at Valparaiso University's Harre Union.

LARRY DeBOER: Europe is caught in-between

The biggest threat to our economy these days comes from Europe. The Greek government borrowed a lot of money that it cannot repay. If Greece defaults the resulting financial crisis could plunge the world back into recession.