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MUNCIE, Ind. - Verizon Wireless announced Monday that Hoosiers donated 18,478 no-longer-used wireless phones to its HopeLine in 2011 to support and put resources into the hands of domestic violence survivors in Indiana.

Mitch Daniels should have to testify in lawsuits over Indiana's botched $1.3 billion welfare modernization deal.

Projected highway funding for Indiana in the House transportation bill: 2012: $923 million 2013: $879 million 2014: $885 million 2015: $886 million 2016: $894 million Source: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee WASHINGTON -- Federal highway funding to Indiana would drop under a long-awaited transportation bill that the House is ... (more)

It's an odd scenario, to say the least. A state agency has fined another state body over the State Fair stage collapse while state standards for building and inspecting such structures remain to be put into law.

Nearly one in five members of the Indiana House - a dozen Democrats and seven Republicans - will not seek re-election this year, guaranteeing a significant turnover in the chamber even if no incumbents are defeated at the polls.

A very long and essential editorial today by Tracy Warner of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette surveys the important Indiana legal/policy issues before Indiana's state and federal courts: Courts have always played a major role in painting political landscapes, but the importance of the judiciary in determining public policy - and thereby influencing ... (more)

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Indianapolis attorney Dave Thompson dressed as Lincoln during the outreach program 'Why Lincoln Was a Lawyer' sponsored by the Indiana Bar Association.

In just a few months, the political leadership inside the Indiana Statehouse will look very different than it does today because of the large number of state representatives and senators who've chosen not to seek re-election. That fact presents an opportunity to reshape old discussions and perhaps change a culture, especially in the House, that has ... (more)

After the 2005 legislative session, the superintendents for Northwest and Southwest Allen County schools invited area lawmakers to Homestead High School to meet with parents unhappy about how the state's funding formula treated their school districts.

The Indiana Department of Transportation will close four lanes of Interstate 465 between Big Eagle Creek and U.S. Highway 136 on this cityA s west side Monday night.

New Albany Floyd County Schools Superintendent Bruce Hibbard could get a raise of $35,000 or more Monday if one board member has his way in a scheduled vote on Hibbard's contract.

Shane Adams, who puts on the Ohio Renaissance Festival jousts in Warren County, brings his olde school extreme sports to national TV Sunday with "Full... Tuesday is probably a good day for Valentine's Day to fall, from the point of view of restaurant owners and restaurant-goers. It spreads it out.

The recent completion of the third-lane expansion project between mile markers 10 and 15.5 on the Indiana Toll Road has prompted ITR Concession Company, the Toll Road's lease-holder, to increase the speed limit for both east- and westbound traffic from between mile markers 1 and 20.

If as expected Mayor Greg Ballard vetoes a comprehensive workplace smoking ban today, Democrats who control the City-County Council will have four options.

After years of seeking an ombudsman's bureau to serve families dealing with the state child welfare system, advocates feared they got too little of what they wanted.

Anti-smoking advocates aren't happy about an 18-month exemption for bars that's included in a bill for a statewide smoking ban, and said Thursday they are aiming to prevent the proposal from being watered down any more as it moves through the Indiana Legislature.

Democrat John Gregg and Republican Mike Pence couldn't have kicked off their gubernatorial runs this week more differently.

Indiana's public school districts wouldn't be able to end school bus service for their students under a proposal advancing in the General Assembly after protests from parents in a suburban Indianapolis district who now face annual bills of more than $400 a child for rides to and from school.

With complex legal issues surrounding the question who will replace Charlie White as Indiana secretary of state, the Indiana Supreme Court rightly stepped into the case late Tuesday afternoon.At issue is the appeal of a Dec.