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Jan 12, 2025 | 
post-gazette.com | Andy Newman |Wesley Parnell |Giovanna Dell'Orto
For more than a year, scientists and aerospace engineers have been awaiting NASA’s decision on how to rescue the troubled Mars Sample Return mission, which aspires to bring Martian rocks and soil to Earth but was halted amid dismay over the project’s cost and glacial timeline. It’s NASA’s most ambitious planetary science mission, a deep scouring of the history of Mars, and it conceivably could make the ultimate scientific breakthrough, detecting the first evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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May 22, 2024 | 
thestarpress.com | Andy Newman
By: Andy NewmanFor The Star PressEditor's Note: The following is part of a class project originally initiated in the classroom of Ball State University professor Adam Kuban in fall 2021. Kuban continued the project this spring semester, challenging his students to find sustainability efforts in the Muncie area and pitch their ideas to Ron Wilkins, interim editor of The Star Press, Journal & Courier and Palladium-Item. This spring, stories related to health care will be featured. Muncie, Ind.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
onthewight.com | Andy Newman
Isle of Wight Pride are proud to launch a new look for 2024. A new logo has been designed to reflect a greater diversity within the community, whilst representing its unique connections to the Island. The new logo will help to establish and develop the charity’s identity. It will be used on all future communications and merchandise.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
dailyitem.com | Andy Newman
Previous The U.N. Security Council has passed a new resolution that c… Next Up Gaza death toll exceeds 20,000 as Israel expands ground war against Hamas
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
dailyitem.com | Andy Newman
Previous Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at length on Sunday as tensions betw… Next Up Actor Ryan O’Neal, who was nominated for an Oscar for the te…
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
ballstatedaily.com | Andy Newman
JAY COUNTY, Ind.--- The game of baseball, like life, is full of highs and lows. One day may be a blowout full of home runs and high fives. The next, a discouraging loss. For eighth grader Daryll Bledsoe, baseball was everything. “He loved baseball,” Sarah Bledsoe, Daryll’s adopted mother, said. “Baseball was his life. He would’ve been a pro.”Then, Daryll’s family suffered the worst loss of all. Daryll Bledsoe passed away just over a year ago on July 26, 2022, in a drowning accident. He was just 13.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
ballstatedaily.com | Andy Newman
MUNCIE, Ind.---A staple of Ball State sports is flying new feathers after he received a much-needed makeover. That staple, of course, is the one and only Charlie Cardinal. “Over the years we’ve had some wear and tear on Charlie,” said Kevin Mullaney, Assistant Athletic Director. “He’s seen better days.
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May 6, 2023 | 
seattletimes.com | Andy Newman
NEW YORK — Chris Payton and Sonia Daley emerged from the subway to meet a client nesting on a pile of blankets near the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Manhattan. It had taken their team almost five months just to track down the 43-year-old homeless woman, chasing leads from police and other homeless people. On this afternoon last August, they were trying to help her find the holy grail: an apartment where someone with a severe mental illness could build a stable life.
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May 6, 2023 | 
staradvertiser.com | Andy Newman
NEW YORK >> Chris Payton and Sonia Daley emerged from the subway into the brilliant sunshine to meet a client nesting on a pile of blankets near the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Manhattan. It had taken their team almost five months just to track down the 43-year-old homeless woman, chasing leads from police and other homeless people. On this afternoon last August, they were trying to help her find the holy grail: an apartment where someone with a severe mental illness could build a stable life.
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Apr 12, 2023 | 
ballstatedaily.com | Andy Newman
MUNCIE, INDIANA. — Ball State University has been home to game changers on every level. From David Letterman to Jim Davis, these halls have seen it all. Tucked away inside the 9th floor of the Teacher’s College is a game changer like no other. Nick Elam is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Ball State and is also the father of an idea that has taken the world of basketball by storm, the Elam Ending.
