Coffee table picture book tells the 100-year history of the famous race

All Avon schools will close through March 20 as one student has tested positive and a second student is showing symptoms of the novel coronavirus.

The school district provided free grab-and-go breakfasts and lunches for students Monday. It will do it again next Monday (March 23).

The coronavirus outbreak shut down Indiana schools until at least May 1, meaning many are moving online. But not all students have internet access.

During coronavirus, Indiana schools turn to donors to fill gaps in access to devices and home internet as state and federal resources lag behind.

While learning loss is a concern, ESL teachers are finding ways to stay connected, even if that means doing more in students' native languages.

This Teacher Appreciation Week, IndyStar asked readers to help recognize some of the amazing teachers going above and beyond during these times.

What Trayce Jackson-Davis' decision to return to Bloomington for his sophomore season means for Archie Miller and the Hoosiers.

Chatard's Miranda Stickel was so determined to return to state, she ran on legs she knew might break. Then the coronavirus pandemic ended her career.

High School basketball teams competed in the Charlie Hughes Shootout on Saturday, June 29, 2019.

Lawrence North superfan Larry Rush died March 28 from health complications related to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

IndyStar high school sports Insider Kyle Neddenriep caught up with outgoing IHSAA commissioner Bobby Cox.

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

IndyStar preps Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 "best" high school teams of all-time. That means the best team you can put together.

I was wrong an hour ago, to say the Golden Rule measure of borrowing was looking better than it had been in 2012. Sorry, bit rushed. Looking at the data, the chancellor is conceding that by 2011, the economy will...

Failing to abide by governor's order is a misdemeanor, but officials hope they don't need to enforce it.

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Indiana on Monday joined a handful of states, including several of its neighbors, by shutting down nonessential travel and businesses.

Legislation that Indiana lawmakers tacked onto other bills received only the most perfunctory, if any, public vetting in the General Assembly.

Former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and former Democratic hopeful for president Pete Buttigieg responded to the shooting of Dreasjon Reed.

Patmon is big (6-4) and fast (4.48-second 40-yard dash) but lacks polish and production

Colts find developmental quarterback on Day 3 of Draft.

Colts continue adding players after NFL Draft.

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Notre Dame's national/international visibility would seem to give Irish student-athletes an edge.

Notre Dame's John Shannon won the award as the nation's top long snapper but he went undrafted; he decides to change course and pursue a dream

He showed enough as a freshman to suggest IU has a bonafide Big Ten shooting guard in Armaan Franklin, waiting to be developed.

In this time of social distancing and online learning, athletic departments across the country have scrambled to embrace flexibility.

Peyton Henderson had been suspended in the wake of an incident for which he still faces a court hearing.

What Trayce Jackson-Davis' decision to return to Bloomington for his sophomore season means for Archie Miller and the Hoosiers.

Marsh supermarkets that were left vacant in 2017 after the chain's bankruptcy are slowly filling up in the Indianapolis area. Here's how that's benefiting the community.

Indianapolis restaurant owners report up to 80% sales declines during the COVID-19 pandemic, and they expect numbers to keep falling.

Securities and Exchange Commission filings detail executive pay cuts for Simon Property Group executives as forced closures impact business operations

Here's how grocery stores are trying to accommodate shoppers with new hours, special times for at-risk customers and other changes as of April 29.

Indiana businesses operating during the coronavirus should follow certain sanitation measures. Guidelines vary based on a worker's risk of exposure.

"This may become the new normal." The fitness and beauty industries may look much different after Indiana's coronavirus stay-at-home order is lifted.

Here's what business leaders and economists say Indiana needs to do to reopen the state's economy and recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

Simon Property Group has published protocols to keep shoppers safe during coronavirus. Here's what changes the shopping mall owner is planning.

Consumers could fight back by not shopping on Thanksgiving.

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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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SpaceX's newest Starship prototype has fired its engine for the first time, potentially paving the way for a test flight in the very near future. Space.com reports: The SN4, the latest test version of SpaceX's Mars-colonizing Starship vehicle, aced a "static fire" Tuesday night (May 5), lighting up its single Raptor engine briefly while remaining on the ground at the company's South Texas facilities. "Starship SN4 passed static fire," SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter late on Tuesday. [You can see video of the static fire here.] With the static fire in the rearview mirror, SpaceX can begin prepping the SN4 for its next big moment: an uncrewed test flight, which Musk has said will take the vehicle to a target altitude of about 500 feet (150 meters).

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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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Boston dominated for most of four quarters but Indiana briefly took the lead in the final minutes behind Victor Oladipo and inspired defensive play.

Despite a rough outing Tuesday night, Brad Stevens and Celtics believe the future is bright for the pride of New Albany.

Donnie Walsh has been plopped in the middle of America's most famous infectious disease doctor's basketball claim to fame.