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INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Department of Workforce Development was awarded a $4 million grant Wednesday to help transition auto workers to new careers and prepare plans for a transformed auto industry.

Civil rights groups, lawmakers critical of program at Plainfield eliminating midday meal 3 days a week The inmates at Plainfield Correctional Facility can't be accused of getting a free lunch.

A southern Indiana lawmaker has been hospitalized. Democratic State Rep. Dennie Oxley of Taswell missed the General Assembly's Organization Day on Tuesday with an undisclosed illness.

City and town courts in Indiana would be eliminated, circuit and superior court judges would be appointed rather than elected and county clerks would no longer process and hold court records under a broad plan intended to improve how Indiana courts operate.

Evergreen Indiana continues to grow with 6 new library systems live on Evergreen, the consortial, open-source library automation software.

Indiana lawmakers will get a jump start on the upcoming legislative session by holding committee meetings a month early, giving themselves more time to examine issues including property taxes, unemployment insurance and ethics.

Pick a crust, any crust...pick a sauce, any sauce. At Hot Box Pizza, there's about a hundred or different more ways to make a pizza and the choices are all up to you.

Indiana lawmakers could discuss the property tax issues, when they gather at the Statehouse in Indianapolis this week to prepare for the start of the General Assembly's legislative session.

Former Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan is planning a trip to Vietnam next year, returning there for the first time since his release as a prisoner of war.

Democrats on Tuesday crushed a Senate filibuster against a controversial appeals court nominee, demonstrating to Republicans they can't stop President Barack Obama from turning the federal judiciary to the left.

It's a question parents dread. But sooner or later, every youngster will want to know: "Where do mascots come from?" In my travels around the Hoosier state, I found the answer to that question from Jennifer Smith.

Updated at 5:27 p.m . WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Tuesday that efforts to strengthen the global financial system to prevent another deep crisis will falter if the United States drops the ball on overhauling regulation of its own banking system.

Prisoners in southern Indiana's Monroe County could no longer be forced to sleep on the jail's gymnasium floor under an agreement to settle a jail overcrowding lawsuit.

The national commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will visit a post in southwestern Indiana this week.

The leading critic of a Hoosier nominee for federal judge has it all wrong, Sen.

The Commission for Higher Education OK'd a pair of campus building projects worth nearly $110 million Friday.

A state appeals court has upheld the murder conviction and prison sentence of a northern Indiana boy who was 13 at the time of the killing.

Hundreds of people have been flocking to a northern Indiana wildlife refuge where thousands of sandhill cranes are making their annual fall migration stop.

State Rep. David Wolkins isn't shy about what he likes: golf, basketball and football.

Indiana Conservation officers say an Illinois man has died in a high-speed crash inside the Indiana Dunes State Park.