Indiana News

South Bend -- A Northern Indiana doctor is pleading guilty to charges in connection with what prosecutors say was a plot to kill his estranged wife and two other people.

An overnight fire gutted a southern Indiana church, leaving only its limestone walls and some roof timbers standing.

The United States Attorney's Office in Hammond issued the following statement Wednesday: The United States Attorney's Office announced that a three count indictment was returned against Ashton Lundeby for his role in internet bomb and related threats directed to Purdue University, Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and ...

Officials are destroying an 80-animal herd of elk and deer at a southeastern Indiana farm after cases of bovine tuberculosis were found.

Gunshots were fired near the downtown Indianapolis convention center after a fight stemming from an event there spilled outside.

Washington - States across the country are violating part of the federal "motor voter" law requiring voter registration help for low-income residents, according to a coalition of advocacy groups trying to force change through the courts.

Democratic legislative leaders want Indiana to reconsider the way it divvies up school funding, claiming the formula in the new state budget will devastate public education.

GOP National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says Republicans need to stop complaining about being out of power in Washington.

A former pastor and his sons charged with bilking church members nationwide out of millions of dollars pleaded not guilty Wednesday, the same day state officials announced increased penalties for such schemes.

SULLIVAN A former Indiana pastor and his sons have pleaded not guilty to charges they bilked church members out of millions of dollars intended for church construction projects.

The mother of Indiana AIDS victim Ryan White says Michael Jackson stayed in touch with her even years after Ryan's 1990 death.

Motorists who renew their Indiana driver's licenses or obtain new ones will have to present documents to prove their identities beginning next year.

Nearly two years into the privatization of Indiana's welfare system, state officials are considering scrapping it amid widespread concerns that include the mishandling of nearly one in five food-stamp cases.

The Maconaquah School board and community members both for and against the recently defeated renovation project have formed a committee to discuss a future project that could gain community support.

The Indiana Department of Correction expects to gain more than 2,000 beds for inmates by shifting programs and hundreds of prisoners to different locations.

Students at Indiana's two largest college systems may soon know how much they have to pay for tuition next year, and it looks like they'll be digging deeper into their wallets.

A top Indiana official says the state's privately run welfare-operations project has so many problems that Indiana could begin taking steps to cancel its $1.16 billion contract this fall.

Herbert L. Corn, the former superintendent of the city of Rochester Wastewater Treatment Plant in Rochester, Ind., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in South Bend, Ind., to falsifying monthly discharge monitoring reports that concealed violations of the Clean Water Act at the Rochester plant, the Justice Department announced.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has tapped former Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez to be an assistant secretary in the Department of Commerce.

More than 130 Hoosier soldiers with the 38th Combat Aviation Brigade held a departure ceremony Sunday in Shelbyville.