InDesign overset text indicators

I have a document in which several pages have overset text indicators, but the text is not overset. There is actually space for more text within the text frames. I have not been able to see how to get rid of the overset indicators.

You will not be able to remove the overset indicator. But if you are being bothered of that indicator and since preflight panel always prompt you that you have overset text then I suggest that you have to removed those extra spaces you have in every frame.
Try this one if this will help you.
Save a copy of your InDesign file. (for Backup purposes)
If you are using Mac cmd + f or ctrl + f for Windows
In find change dialog Click GREP and in Find what: field copy paste this [\r]{2,} or this one [\r|\n]{2,}
Leave the Change to to blank:
In Search Select Document
Click Change All
See Screenshot:
Always check your InDesign files if you noticed that some text might be missing.
Hope it helps.

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http://community.adobe.com/help/search.html?q=overset%20text&hl=en_US&lr=en_US&l=indesign_ product_adobelr&site=indesign_cs5_all&self=1&filter=0
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