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INDIANAPOLIS — Just how far Indiana lawmakers will go in limiting what teachers can say in their classrooms about race and politics is among several key unresolved issues at the midway point of this year’s legislative session.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The creation of education savings accounts and an expansion of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program, or voucher program, may open up opportunities for students in private schools, but they may also take more funding away from public schools.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana might be in the preliminary stages of a coronavirus surge already, but Gov. Eric Holcomb warned Tuesday about the dangers of de-escalating public health measures too quickly.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana has the 12th-highest adult obesity rate in the nation, ranking one spot higher for childhood and teenage obesity. A study commissioned by the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation estimates that one in three Hoosiers carries extra weight.
INDIANA — The 18th annual Cops Cycling for Survivors bicycle ride around Indiana, which honors fallen police officers, kicks off Monday, July 8. Charlestown Sgt. Ben Bertram will be among the officers honored during the ride.
Indiana has the second highest rate of child abuse and neglect in the nation, and the numbers continue to grow, according to a new report released by the Children’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
JEFFERSONVILLE — Jeffersonville couple Chris Fox and Nick Lawrence have raised little Bethany Lynn as her foster parents since she was born two and a half years ago.
INDIANAPOLIS — Controversial legislation allowing firearms training for teachers passed the Senate on Tuesday.
INDIANAPOLIS—The Senate voted unanimously Thursday to approve a bill that would compensate those who have been wrongfully convicted.
INDIANAPOLIS—An Indiana Senate committee voted Tuesday to make changes to Indiana’s ‘Red Flag’ law to help protect suicidal individuals.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University engineering professor will lead a new research institute dedicated to designing and operating deep space habitats.
LEBANON — Vice President Mike Pence pledged the Trump administration's agriculture trade plan, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, would help relieve current burdens from a downturn in the economy and lower commodity prices.
INDIANAPOLIS — After a six-year battle for a bias crimes law, a bill containing controversial language passed the Indiana Senate on Tuesday despite calls for the author to dissent and send it to a committee for further debate.
INDIANAPOLIS — A Lebanon pediatrician facing four criminal counts involving sexual misconduct with teenage patients had his state medical license suspended for 90 days Thursday.
INDIANAPOLIS — State groups are preparing to launch a yearlong celebration of Hoosier women's role in securing their right to vote.
A few former prisoners who have been exonerated are asking the state of Indiana for compensation.
The Senate Public Policy Committee heeded a message Monday from state Sen. Ron Alting, R-Lafayette, in passing a hate crimes bill.
PORTER, Ind. — Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore no more: It's now a national park.
INDIANAPOLIS — Melanie Davis is transgender, and one night while she walked to her former job in Indianapolis, two men yelled hateful slurs at her. Then, things took a turn when one of the men pointed a gun at her.
INDIANAPOLIS — Legislation that would eliminate Indiana’s township boards received an initial go-ahead by a House committee despite testimony that the three-member boards are vital to the state’s system of government.
INDIANAPOLIS — Hospitals across Indiana would be better-equipped to combat the life-threatening illness called sepsis, thanks to legislation co-authored by state Rep. Rita Fleming, D-Jeffersonville, which has been approved in the Indiana House.
When Madonna showed up at a New York City club on New Year’s Eve, a video of her somewhat misshapen – and large – behind went viral and raised a stink on the internet.
INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana high school students may have to pass another test in order to graduate.
INDIANA — The Indiana Family & Social Services Administration has announced that it will release Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for February early on Jan. 19. No additional SNAP benefits will be issued in the month of February. March distribution plans remain u…
INDIANAPOLIS — As Alivia Stahl and her twin 6-year-old brothers crossed a two-lane Fulton County road to board their school bus on Oct. 30, the driver of an oncoming Toyota Tacoma apparently failed to respond to the flashing lights of the bus.
INDIANAPOLIS — Gary Brackett terrorized opposing offenses for nine years as an undersized but overachieving linebacker in the NFL.
Indiana’s drug crisis has become increasingly deadly.
TELL CITY, Ind. (AP) — Three young siblings were killed and their mother was hospitalized after she tried to save them from a house fire early Friday in a small southern Indiana city, officials said.
INDIANAPOLIS — Longtime Indiana sportswriter Terry Hutchens died Friday afternoon from health complications caused by a stroke.
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