Surreal. That's how peace activist, jazz musician and composer Keni Washington described it. David Horowitz, a conservative self-described agitator, was on stage Thursday, doing his thing. "Spewing a remarkable load of venom," said Washington.

Those sick of hearing about daylight-saving time in the Statehouse need a history lesson. This is what we do in Indiana.

From tiny crystal beads strung together as bracelets, pink and white and seemingly delicate, come a mighty research project to fight breast cancer.

FOREST PARK, Ill. -- With a disgusted look, Stephen Drake shoved the April 4 issues of Time and Newsweek across the table.

How many Catholics in Indiana, I wonder, kept vigil for the pope on Saturday, as he lay dying? I did, and the experience was a powerful witness to the majesty of the universal Catholic Church that Pope John Paul II represented so faithfully for 26 years.

This is one pie that didn't fly. Granted, Earlham College student Josh Medlin successfully smeared pastry all over neoconservative thinker William Kristol during Kristol's talk on the Richmond campus Tuesday. But the sophomore's sophomoric actions did not make Kristol appear "silly," which was Medlin's intent.

The $100,000 reward announced this week for information leading to finding Molly Dattilo and to an arrest and conviction of those involved in her disappearance is even bigger than it appears.

Sitting in the smoky, noisy Catalina Bar at 3032 E. Washington St. Friday evening, Les Ward, 51, considers the question. But not for long.

Leave it to the women to never forget. "I know it sounds like a cliché," said Mary Kathryn Ardizzone Duckworth, 69. "But it's true -- he was so wonderful. He was just so good. You just liked being around him. Everybody did."

Just why has Attorney General Stephen Carter requested medical records of Medicaid patients under age 14 from Planned Parenthood of Indiana?

Michael Haskett held his aching head in his hands as he sat on his front steps Monday, soaking up spring sunshine.

This cop has heart. So it's no surprise that she invoked her deceased mother during a recent hunt. She wasn't pursuing a criminal, tracking a paper trail at the Indianapolis Police Department's financial crimes unit, where she works.

"I understand you have a job to do," City-County Council President Steve Talley said Tuesday, between meetings on a typically hectic day in Downtown Indianapolis.