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• Today is the deadline for Indiana residents who have not previously signed up to get their telephone numbers added to the state’s latest “Do Not Call” list. Hoosiers who register their residential, cellular, VoIP or prepaid phones online at indianaconsumer.com or by calling (888) 834-9969 should see a decrease in unsolicited marketing calls. Complaints about telemarketing fraud and Do Not Call list violations can be filed at indianaconsumer.com.

• Farms in two of the nation’s leading pork producing states have tested positive for the potentially fatal porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), U.S. pork industry veterinarian official said. Three farms in Iowa and one Indiana operation have confirmed cases of the virus, said Dr Lisa Becton, director of swine health information and research for the National Pork Board. PEDV does not pose a food safety or health risk to humans and the pork is safe eat. Other animals cannot contract the swine-only virus.

• The Indiana Real Estate Markets Report released by the state’s Realtors shows that statewide, when comparing April 2013 to April 2012, the following occurred: the number of closed home sales increased 18 percent to 6,569, the median sale price of those homes increased 2.6 percent to $119,000 and the average sale price increased three percent to $141,697. The median sale price of homes has increased for 17 consecutive months and the average sale price has increased for 16 consecutive months

• A semi-truck driver may face a charge of attempted murder of a police officer after allegedly attacking the off-duty officer outside Planned Parenthood in Merrillville. The police involved shooting happened just before 4pm yesterday afternoon. Investgators said that the semi trailer was in the parking lot of Planned Parenthood unattended. The Merrillville police officer, who was off-duty at the time, was working as private security in uniform and wrote a couple of tickets for the truck. The truck driver then attacked the officer, jumping on top of him, pushing him to the ground and hitting him in the face repeatedly. The officer reached for his service weapon and shot the truck driver in stomach. Both men were taken to a local hospital in Merrillville.

• Indiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percent to 8.5 percent in April, the largest one month decrease in over a year. Private sector employment in the Hoosier state also increased by 6,800 jobs over the past month and exceeded the national rate of growth. Indiana has now experienced private sector employment growth in 37 of the past 40 months. April also recorded the biggest drop in the total number of unemployed in over a year. 7,800 fewer Hoosiers were reported unemployed in April than reported in March. Weekly claims for unemployment insurance also decreased by more than 14 percent over the past month and initial claims continue to remain below 2005 levels.

• Officials Expect Death Toll to Rise After Oklahoma Tornado

  

  iStockphoto/Thinkstock(MOORE, Okla.) — First responders are in a race against time in the search for any survivors of a devastating tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., killing at least 51 people and destroying homes and businesses in a 12-mile path, officials said. Spokeswoman Amy Elliott of the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner’s office said she believes at least 91 people are dead.  Elliott said an additional 40 bodies are being moved Read more…

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