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This image made from video provided by Ayako Wada-Katsumata shows glucose-averse German cockroaches avoiding a dab of jelly, which contains glucose, and favoring the peanut butter. For 30 years, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out sweet-tasting bait mixed with poison. But in the early 1990s, a formerly effective product stopped working. Some cockroaches had lost their sweet tooth, rejecting the corn syrup meant to attract them. Later studies showed they were specifically turned off by the sugar glucose in the syrup. Scientists reported Thursday, May 23, 2013 that the key is an altered behavior of certain nerves that signal the brain about foods. (AP Photo/Ayako Wada-Katsumata)

Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive

For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong. A killer product stopped working. Cockroach populations there kept rising. Mystified researchers tested and discarded theory after theory ...

Developer reopening northern Indiana lake resort

A developer is preparing to reopen a lake resort in northern Indiana that has been closed since 2008 after more than a century as a religious retreat. The Oakwood Inn Resort & Conference Center at Lake Wawasee near Syracuse is expected to open up in mid-June, The Journal Gazette (http://bit.ly/1215q22n ...

Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) scored in the last seconds of overtime to defeat the Indiana Pacers in Miami on Tuesday May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/The Palm Beach Post, Allen Eyestone)

LeBron, Heat dig deep to top Pacers in Game 1

It could have been the perfect matchup to cap an unforgettable game. LeBron James driving to the rim to face Roy Hibbert, one play to decide Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. Alas, Hibbert was on the bench for the deciding moment. And James made Miami's game-winner seem way ...

More than 50 hurt when Indiana school buses crash

A school bus slammed into the back of another one, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, leaving about 50 middle and high students with non-serious injuries and one driver seriously injured. The crash injured 55 people Wednesday, including three of the four bus drivers, Kosciusko ...

Chain-Reaction School Bus Crash Injures About 50

Chain-Reaction School Bus Crash Injures About 50

Dozens of students and three school bus drivers were injured on Wednesday, when four school buses had a chain-reaction collision. Most of the injuries were minor. (May 23)

Pacers see chance slip in Game 1 of East finals

Paul George did all he could. A 32-foot shot with less than a second remaining in regulation to force overtime. Luring Dwyane Wade into a foul and then making three free throws to give the Indiana Pacers the lead with 2.2 seconds left in the extra session. Almost single-handedly silencing ...

Indiana Pacers forward Tyler Hansbrough (50) exchanges words with Miami Heat forward Chris Andersen (11) during the first half of Game 1 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoff series, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Miami. Andersen was charged with a technical foul. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

LeBron saves Heat at buzzer of Game 1

LeBron James caught the inbounds pass, changed direction and immediately attacked the rim. There was no one in his way. There was no stopping him, either. James made a layup as time expired in overtime, capping a 30-point, 10-rebound, 10-assist effort as the Miami Heat found a way to outlast ...

This image provided by the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department shows the front of a school bus that slammed into the back of another bus, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in North Webster, Ind., Wednesday, May 22, 2013 The crash left dozens of middle and high school students with non-serious injuries and one driver seriously injured. (AP Photo/Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department)

More than 50 hurt when Indiana school buses crash

A school bus slammed into the back of another one Wednesday afternoon, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, leaving about 50 middle and high students with non-serious injuries and one driver seriously injured. The crash injured 55 people, including three of the four bus drivers, ...

3 former executives sue Carbon Motors over pay

Three former executive vice presidents of a company that planned to build high-tech police cars at an eastern Indiana factory have sued the corporation for more than $600,000 in deferred wages. The Connersville News-Examiner reported Wednesday (http://bit.ly/Ze2oFY) that Trevor Rudderham, Alan Bratt and Keith Marchiando have filed suit in Fayette ...

N. Ind. ambulance plant with 165 workers closing

A northern Indiana factory where 165 workers build ambulances will be shut down by its new owner in a decision announced a week after the same company said it would close a nearby recreational vehicle plant with about 500 workers. SJC Industries has notified the state Department of Workforce Development ...

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