West Lafayette News

GARY, Ind. - That laid-back, slow motion atmosphere on college campuses during the summer months is about to shift.

INDIANAPOLIS - If you are interested in the Indiana Supreme Court and who may be its next justice, you can still attend interviews of the applicants today - if you are willing to be quiet and listen. Eight applicants had a 20-minute public interview on Wednesday with the seven-member Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission in the Statehouse. The seven others will have same-length interviews today. The one for West Lafayette attorney Rebecca A. Trent starts at 9 a.m. Ten of the applicants are Indianapolis attorneys; four of them are judges. The others are either practicing attorneys or judges elsewhere in Indiana. The applicants are seeking to fill the seat on the five-member high court that will be vacated in March by Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard, who has served on the state's highest court since September 1985. Shepard heads the nominating commission. Three members also are attorneys, and three are citizens. The process is open to the public and media, provided that those attending follow certain rules to avoid distractions during the interviews in Room 319 of the Statehouse. The rules include: • Enter and exit the room only between interviews. • Set up tripod and other equipment for video and still cameras between interviews. • Refrain from moving about the room during interviews. • Only use ambient lighting. Artificial lighting, such as flashbulbs and frezzi lights, are not allowed. • Only commission members can ask questions of the applicants during the interview process. • The audience in the interview room will be requested to refrain from any distracting activities. After the interviews, commission members will deliberate in private, considering the applicants' legal education, legal writings, reputation in the practice of law, physical condition, financial interests, activities in public service and any other pertinent information. The commission will then select semifinalists in public after today's private deliberations conclude and will interview them again on Feb. 22, choosing the names of three finalists to send to Gov. Mitch Daniels. The governor will select the state's 107th justice. Sometime after March 4, the commission will choose who will serve as chief justice. Shepard, 65, chief justice since 1987, is the longest-serving state court chief justice in the nation. He was a Vanderburgh Superior Court judge in Evansville, when he was appointed to the high court in 1985 by Gov. Robert D. Orr. Justice Steven H. David is the newest of the high court's five members, chosen in October 2010 by Daniels. He had been a Boone Circuit Court judge in Lebanon. Justice Robert D. Rucker, appointed in 1999, was a judge on the Indiana Court of Appeals. Justice Frank Sullivan Jr. was practicing law and had been state budget director from 1989 to 1992 when he was appointed in 1993. Justice Brent E. Dickson was practicing law in 1986 when he was appointed.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A Purdue University agronomist says Indiana's winter wheat crop is healthy and on track despite wet weather at planting time last fall.

Susan Crosley helps her children, Jack and Anna, build a bluebird house Wednesday at Lilly Nature Center in West Lafayette.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An attempted robbery on the Purdue University campus ends with the suspect in the hospital.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Youth football players could soon be forced to sit on the sidelines to protect their health long term.A A A A A A Purdue researchers say football players can take as many as 1,100A hits to the head in one season.

The former Lafayette Councilman plans to officially make the announcement Wednesday night at five at Puccini's Resturant in West Lafayette.

The closest WorkOne Express office to Kentland is in Morocco at 4117 S. County Road 240 West, Suite 400, in the Newton County Government Center.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is to step out of the way. Today is one of those days.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue graduate Janice Voss, one of the few women launched into space, died on Monday, February 6 of breast cancer.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - "Fantastic." That's how Mayor John Dennis described West Lafayette in his "State of the City" address.

BASi has opened its new Discovery Center at its corporate headquarters in the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette, IN.

A team of students from Harrison High School in West Lafayette is headed to Washington, D.C., after winning this year's Indiana State Regional High School Science Bowl.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Indiana State Department of Education released graduation rates early Tuesday morning for all school corporations in 2011.

The thumping, high-energy beats associated with hip-hop music often have the effect of getting listeners all charged up.

FORT WAYNE , Ind. - When Tiffany Kravec-Kelly wanted to reach fellow veterans on IPFW's campus, she took a page out of her psychological-operations playbook.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A little bit of freedom is a key ingredient to a new teaching method at Purdue University.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - It was a busy week for Purdue's board of trustees. A A A The board worked on filling the University's top job and approved renovations to the student fitness and wellness center.

Feb. 3, 2012 -- Small hits to the head may add up to injuries for high school football players, according to a new study by the Purdue Neurotrauma Group at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Some experts say there's an alarming decline in the nationwide honey bee population.