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We've gotten heavily invested in A&E's ongoing original series, with a second season of 'Bates Motel' already ordered, 'Longmire' season 2 soon to start and eventually Chloe Sevigny's 'Those Who Kill,' but it's the cable network's reality series 'Duck Dynasty' that really brings home the...well, duck. The ratings for the reality series third season finale drew A&E's highest ratings ever, nearly beating out 'American Idol,' while remaining cable's number 1 series behind 'The Walking Dead.' Read all about 'Duck Dynasty's' massive success inside!

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Indiana felons may now receive less prison time because of a new proposal passed earlier this week aimed at placing non-violent criminals into alternative correctional programs other than the state penitentiary.

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Earlier in the year, we reported that Sam Featherstone, a young man who lived in Newburgh, IN, was hosting a fundraiser to aid in research for pediatric brain cancer. It was only a few days later that Sam passed away from a brain tumor after his three-year battle with the disease

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Save the babies! Put on your walkin' shoes and get ready for the Evansville March of Dimes' March for Babies walk, which is the March of Dimes' biggest fundraiser. It supports research and programs to help prevent or treat premature birth, birth defects and other threats to babies' health.

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This week's edition Wednesdays With Winnecke was spent talking about the creation of "We Are Evansville." Mayor Winnecke was joined by two of the USI students responsible for this grass roots movement.

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Earlier in the week, I saw the above Facebook post by Warrick Animal Control which made me search my heart of how people can be so cruel. It was only in the overwhelming response of support that I could believe humanity isn't all bad.

Then, the second picture

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When classic rockers Styx, REO Speedwagon andTed Nugent come to Evansville, they'll be donating part of the proceeds from the show to victims of the recent Boston Marathon bombings.

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In 2009, Herbert and Catherine Schaible lost their 2-year-old son, Kent, to bacterial pneumonia—a condition they refused to let a doctor treat, insisting on using only prayer to heal him. Last week, their second son died. He, too, failed to receive any potentially life-saving medical care.

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The second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been captured. Dzokhar Tsarnaev was taken into police custody Friday night -- five days after the bombing that left three dead and left more than 100 injured, police said. The 19-year-old was apprehended after a manhunt that began Thursday night with the fatal shooting of an MIT officer and extended into the evening hours on Friday.

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This has been a very difficult week in light of the bombs at the Boston Marathon, the explosion at the fertilizer plant in Waco, TX. and yesterday's defeat in the Senate of a bill that would have expanded background checks to purchase a gun and banned the sale of some semi-automatic weapons like military assault weapons. My question to the Senate is, what's wrong with expanded background checks?

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