Recent News
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A Buck Creek man has been charged with eight counts that include rape and kidnapping as police continue to hunt for him after he allegedly kidnapped and assaulted a woman whose car became disabled Saturday night on County Road 900 East.
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Last year, Purdue welcomed the largest class in school history, which was roughly 8,300 students.
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The ability to discern real news from fake news is coming to a head.
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A former Purdue professor is appealing the decision of a federal judge to allow a former student to proceed unnamed in a lawsuit against him.
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Sophomore Trevion Williams has been selected to represent the United States in the FIBA U19 World Cup.
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Purdue’s Black Cultural Center officials say they’re pulling out all the stops on the center’s 50th anniversary celebration this weekend.
Condoleezza Rice, the 66th U.S. secretary of state, will speak Oct. 9 at Purdue.
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Although some younger students may not be taking Purdue President Mitch Daniels’s advice to find “summer jobs detasseling corn or baling hay,” students in Indiana Future Farmers of America are practicing their agricultural skills over the summer.
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D.J. Byrd is a born-and-raised Hoosier. He played high school basketball at North Montgomery High in Crawfordsville, was rated the top Indiana recruit in 2009 by 247Sports and only went a couple of miles north up U.S. Route 231 to play college ball at Purdue.
Purdue softball will be visiting the Northwestern Wildcats over the weekend in a conference battle. The Boilermakers (30-17, 6-8 Big Ten) will look to better their conference record over the weekend in Evanston, Illinois.
The Purdue women’s tennis team has the opportunity to sweep its final weekend of play when they host Maryland and Rutgers this weekend.
The Purdue men’s diving team had a member take home some top-tier hardware in Mission Viejo, California, this past week.
The Catch-Up
On Tuesday, all of the hard work that the Purdue women’s cross country team and coaching staff has put in so far this season finally paid off and garnered recognition on a national level.
Cold temperatures and 20 mile per hour winds plagued the cross country team in Iowa City, Iowa, for the Big Ten Cross Country Championships.
Purdue will host the 2013 Big Ten Cross Country meet Sunday at the Boilermaker Cross Country Course located next to the Schwartz Tennis Center and Boilermaker Soccer Complex.
Starting the first three years of her college career in the Southland Conference, cross country runner Samantha Walkow took a big chance transferring from Lamar University to Purdue her senior year.
Purdue seems to have found the right leader to inject life back into the track and field program.
