The Hoosiers' offensive line loses key leaders, with graduation of Simon Stepaniak and Hunter Littlejohn and transfer of Coy Cronk.

Webster's Emmitt Holt spent 64 days in the hospital, lost 50 pounds, had eight feet of intestines removed and returned to play college basketball.

This week, PrepVolleyball.com released its Class of 2020 recruiting rankings. The Hoosiers came in at No. 15 — a program best.

The city of Indianapolis and the Indy Chamber announced a $10 million rapid response loan fund for small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.

As coronavirus shutters cookie booths in Indiana and around the country, Girl Scouts take sales online and embrace an entrepreneurial spirit.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Syed Shah usually buys and sells stocks and currencies through his Interactive Brokers account, but he couldn't resist trying his hand at some oil trading on April 20, the day prices plunged below zero for the first time ever. The day trader, working from his house in a Toronto suburb, figured he couldn't lose as he spent $2,400 snapping up crude at $3.30 a barrel, and then 50 cents. Then came what looked like the deal of a lifetime: buying 212 futures contracts on West Texas Intermediate for an astonishing penny each. What he didn't know was oil's first trip into negative pricing had broken Interactive Brokers Group Inc. Its software couldn't cope with that pesky minus sign, even though it was always technically possible -- though this was an outlandish idea before the pandemic -- for the crude market to go upside down. Crude was actually around negative $3.70 a barrel when Shah's screen had it at 1 cent. Interactive Brokers never displayed a subzero price to him as oil kept diving to end the day at minus $37.63 a barrel. At midnight, Shah got the devastating news: he owed Interactive Brokers $9 million. He'd started the day with $77,000 in his account. To be clear, investors who were long those oil contracts had a brutal day, regardless of what brokerage they had their account in. What set Interactive Brokers apart, though, is that its customers were flying blind, unable to see that prices had turned negative, or in other cases locked into their investments and blocked from trading. Compounding the problem, and a big reason why Shah lost an unbelievable amount in a few hours, is that the negative numbers also blew up the model Interactive Brokers used to calculate the amount of margin -- aka collateral -- that customers needed to secure their accounts. "It's a $113 million mistake on our part," said Thomas Peterffy, the chairman and founder of Interactive Brokers, in an interview Wednesday. Customers will be made whole, Peterffy said. "We will rebate from our own funds to our customers who were locked in with a long position during the time the price was negative any losses they suffered below zero."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Crawling along the world's river bottoms, the larvae of the caddis fly suffer a perpetual housing crisis. To protect themselves from predators, they gather up sand grains and other sediment and paste them all together with silk, forming a cone that holds their worm-like bodies. As they mature and elongate, they have to continuously add material to the case -- think of it like adding rooms to your home for the rest of your life, or at least until you turn into an adult insect. If the caddis fly larva somehow loses its case, it's got to start from scratch, and that's quite the precarious situation for a defenseless tube of flesh. And now, the microplastic menace is piling onto the caddis fly's list of tribulations. Microplastic particles -- pieces of plastic under 5 millimeters long -- have already corrupted many of Earth's environments, including the formerly pristine Arctic and deep-sea sediments. In a study published last year, researchers in Germany reported finding microplastic particles in the cases of caddis flies in the wild. Then, last month, they published the troubling results of lab experiments that found the more microplastic particles a caddis fly larva incorporates into its case, the weaker that structure becomes. That could open up caddis flies to greater predation, sending ripple effects through river ecosystems. In the lab, the researchers found that the larvae chose to use two kinds of microplastics to build their cases, likely because the plastic is lighter than the sand, so it's not as hard to lift. The problem is that the cases with more plastic and less sand collapse more easily, weakening the larvae's protection from predatory fish, among other things. A more long-term concern is bioaccumulation. "A small fish eats a larva, a bigger fish eats the smaller fish, all the way on up, and the concentrations of microplastic and associated toxins accumulate over time," the report says. "The bigger predators that people eat, like tuna, may be absorbing those microplastics and the chemicals they leach." The study has been published in the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

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The Adidas move was expected; each side alleges the other is at fault

Take a look at a new Downtown Indianapolis restaurant with Japanese-style crepes, T-Swirl Crepe.

Take a look at a variety of crepes being created at T-Swirl Crepe, a new place to eat in Downtown Indianapolis.

Empty seats. Silent screens. How Franklin's Artcraft Theater is weathering the pandemic.

Boilermakers and Hoosiers try to break into the upper echelon of Big Ten football recruiting

The Greenwood Redevelopment Commission has given city officials the green light to seek bids for a nearly 20-acre development project. Here's what it could look like.

The pilot told deputies he had mechanical difficulties and had to make a rough landing in the cornfield.

A Bargersville man died in a head-on crash in Johnson County early Saturday morning. Police believe alcohol was a factor in the crash.

A Bargersville police officer and the driver of an SUV were taken to the hospital with minor injuries after a vehicle crash Friday.

The Historic Artcraft Theater in Franklin has to survive the pandemic shutdown. The downtown economy depends on it.

A show billed as "The Adventures of Kesha and Macklemore" resembles a summer popcorn movie at Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center.

The Adidas move was expected; each side alleges the other is at fault

She is the youngest woman to row solo across the Indian Ocean. Find out more in this week's Media English.

People wait in line for these giant ice cream-stuffed doughnuts, even on snowy winter days.

Loco Mexican Restaurant to fill space where LongBranch, 22nd Street Diner failed.

Take a look at a new Downtown Indianapolis restaurant with Japanese-style crepes, T-Swirl Crepe.

Take a look at a variety of crepes being created at T-Swirl Crepe, a new place to eat in Downtown Indianapolis.

Indiana has the highest death rate among states that are reopening. One widely cited model predicts big rise as Holcomb sends Hoosiers back to work

Indiana democratic gubernatorial candidate Woody Myers named Linda Lawson as his running mate in an announcement Friday morning.

New data released Friday shows how coronavirus-related hospitalizations have started to decrease in Indiana.

Many suburban churches plan to keep their doors shut this weekend despite an easing of restrictions on public gatherings by Gov. Eric Holcomb.

The governor said state officials are trying to manage health risks, job risks and budget risks simultaneously.

Find out which cricketer you are most like - with our entirely unscientific personality quiz.

With cricket on hold because of coronavirus, here is a chance to test your knowledge of what has happened in 2020.

Northamptonshire club doctor Professor Bill Ribbans tells BBC Look East what cricket must do in order to return this summer.

The ECB intends for women to play international and domestic cricket this summer but is "realistic" about the impact of coronavirus, says Clare Connor.

England's physical disability cricketers have taken on an energy-sapping challenge - they are running a collective marathon each day for 10 days.

Fast bowler Mark Wood says players would be willing to go into isolation in order for England matches to take place this summer.

Test Match Special statistician Andrew Samson answers some of your cricketing questions.

A film that has never previously been broadcast shows crowds gathered at City Hall and Royal Avenue.

Documents obtained from state Treasurer Fiona Ma's office through a records request include an invoice from a BYD subsidiary for 'N95 face masks.'

Starting May 12, the L.A. County supervisors will allow the public to comment live for the first time since the coronavirus ended in-person meetings.

LAPD leaders are concerned about a looming decline in black officers, particularly as pandemic-related restrictions undercut recruitment efforts.

Vanessa Bryant has filed a claim against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department over deputies sharing "unauthorized" photos of the scene of the helicopter crash that killed her husband Kobe Bryant, their daughter and seven others.

This week, PrepVolleyball.com released its Class of 2020 recruiting rankings. The Hoosiers came in at No. 15 — a program best.

Simon executives are furious at Indianapolis officials.

The primary way all citizens can support law enforcement is to follow the recommendations of state and local government leaders, Josh Minkler writes.

I see people praising restaurant workers, grocery clerks, and truck drivers and I think this is long overdue.

Saudi plans to build a new tech city are coming up against two hurdles: funding and a local tribe.

"You can see the fear in their faces," says medic as health workers in Yemen brace for Covid surge.

Twelve people were injured by the blaze in a 49-storey residential building in Sharjah.