Latest Indiana Headlines

All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Indiana Doctor Who Hid in Europe Says He’s Served Enough Time

Oct 10 2012 // A former northwestern Indiana nose surgeon who spent five years on the run from fraud charges is arguing he’s served enough time in prison even before being sentenced.Attorneys for Mark Weinberger say in federal...

PIA of Indiana Adds Shoultz to Board

Oct 9 2012 // Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana announced that Steve Shoultz, principal of Priority Risk Management Inc. in Fishers, Ind., was recently elected to serve on the association’s board of directors until Dec. 31,...

Home-Building Drive Starts in Storm-Hit Indiana Town

Oct 9 2012 // Hundreds of volunteers have converged on Henryville in southern Indiana, which was devastated by a deadly March tornado outbreak, for a weeklong effort to rebuild 10 homes.The Habitat for Humanity building blitz began in...

FDA: Indiana Farm Tied to Salmonella Outbreak Unclean

Oct 8 2012 // A federal inspector found two strains of salmonella and unclean conditions at an Indiana cantaloupe farm’s fruit-packing plant during inspections prompted by a deadly outbreak linked to the farm’s melons.The...

Repairs to Indiana Covered Bridge Could Cost $300K

Sep 30 2012 // A county official says it could cost as much as $300,000 to repair a nearly 140-year-old wooden covered bridge in northeastern Indiana after its roof trusses were broken by a too-tall semitrailer. DeKalb County highway...

Indiana Workplace Deaths Up 3% Last Year

Sep 26 2012 // A new report says the number of people dying on the job in Indiana rose to 122 last year from 118 the year before. The Indiana Department of Labor released preliminary data on workplace deaths for 2011 on Sept. 24. The...

Certified Professional Insurance Agent Classes Return to Indiana

Sep 25 2012 // Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana (PIA), a statewide association of local, independent insurance agents, is the newest sponsor of the AIMS Society’s Certified Professional Insurance Agent (CPIA) designation...

Court Orders Rehabilitation for Home Value Insurance Co.

Sep 18 2012 // Home Value Insurance Co. was ordered into rehabilitation by an Ohio court on Aug. 31, 2012, and has been prohibited from selling insurance in the state due to its failure to maintain minimum capital and surplus.The...

Feinberg Calls Indiana Stage Collapse Compensation Fair

Sep 12 2012 // The architect of compensation for victims of last year’s deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse says he believes the state was “exceedingly fair” with victims. Victims’ compensation specialist...

North Indiana Sheriff Aims to Reduce Buggy Crashes

Sep 11 2012 // The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department is teaming with an Amish group known as the Northern Indiana Safety Association to try to educate people about how to safely operate horse-drawn vehicles on public roads. The...

BP Pays $1.5M in Claims to Date in Gas Recall

Sep 10 2012 // BP has paid more than $1.5 million in claims arising from a recall in multiple Midwest states of incorrectly formulated gasoline that damaged some vehicles’ mechanical components.The Times of Munster reports...

BP Gas Recall Now 4.7M Gallons; Ohio, Southern Indiana Affected

Aug 31 2012 // BP says the size of its gasoline recall is now more than twice as large than previously reported at 4.7 million gallons distributed as far as southwestern Ohio and southern Indiana. BP spokesman Scott Dean said on Aug. 29...

Indiana Officials Looking Into BP Gasoline Recall

Aug 27 2012 // The Indiana attorney general’s office has opened an investigation to ensure BP quickly responds to consumers’ complaints about vehicles damaged by contaminated gasoline that was distributed from storage...

Central Indiana Glass Plant Faces $453K in Safety Fines

Aug 24 2012 // A central Indiana glass factory faces what the state workplace safety agency calls a record $453,000 in fines for violations that weren’t corrected after a worker’s death nearly two years ago.The Indiana...

Indiana Flood Walls Aim to Prevent Repeat of 2008

Aug 24 2012 // Floodwaters from Haw Creek cost Cummins Inc. an estimated $220 million dollars in property damage in 2008. The Indiana-based company is making an investment to make sure that never happens again.South of Haw Creek, near...

U.S. Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Indiana Farm Melons

Aug 23 2012 // U.S. health regulators said cantaloupe from Chamberlain Farms in Indiana may be one source of a multi-state outbreak of salmonella that has killed two people and sickened some 178 in the past month.The farm in Owensville...

All 92 Ind. Counties Now Farming Disaster Areas

Aug 17 2012 // The federal government has now declared all 92 Indiana counties as agricultural disaster areas following the state’s worst drought in decades.The U.S. Department of Agriculture has added 12 Indiana counties as...

Indiana Fair Remembers Stage Collapse 1 Year Later

Aug 15 2012 // The Indiana State Fair came to a standstill on the night of Aug. 13 to honor the victims of a deadly stage collapse one year ago that prompted sweeping overhauls of the fair’s emergency plan and new regulations for...

Overheated Food Trucks Raise Red Flags in Indiana

Aug 9 2012 // In recent weeks, “hot trucks” have made headlines as Indiana State Police found numerous food transport trucks driving with improper refrigeration for their loads.A new Indiana law that took effect in July...

Indiana Fair Victims Settlement Clause Designed to Shield State

Aug 9 2012 // Indiana lawmakers presented their decision to offer an additional $6 million to victims of a deadly stage collapse at last year’s state fair as a way to help those who weren’t adequately compensated by its...