Latest Indiana Headlines

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Indiana Court Sides With Catholic Diocese in Teacher Dismissal

Sep 6 2022 // The Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that religious freedom rights protect the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis from being sued by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school for being in...

3 Indiana State Students Killed in Car Crash

Aug 23 2022 // Two freshman members of the Indiana State University football team were among the three students who were killed in a weekend crash, officials said Monday.Two other football team members who were injured in the crash were...

Indiana House Explosion Victims Died of Trauma Asphyxia

Aug 18 2022 // Preliminary autopsy results released Monday for the three victims of a house explosion in a southern Indiana neighborhood show they died of blunt force trauma and compression asphyxia.A married couple who lived at the...

Cause Sought for Indiana House Explosion That Killed 3, Damaged 39 Homes

Aug 12 2022 // Authorities worked Thursday to determine the cause of a house explosion in a southern Indiana neighborhood that killed three people and left another person hospitalized.The explosion Wednesday afternoon in Evansville...

Indiana Metalworking Lubricants Company to Pay $310,000 over Clean Air Act Violations

Aug 12 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Indiana Department of Environmental Management announced a settlement on August 5 with Metalworking Lubricants Co. for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its used oil...

Indiana House Explosion Leaves 3 Dead, 39 Homes Damaged

Aug 10 2022 // An explosion at an Evansville, Indiana house killed three people and damaged 39 houses, officials said Wednesday afternoon.Evansville Fire Department Chief Mike Connelly said two of the people killed were in the house of...

Indiana Abortion Doctor Signals She’ll Sue AG over Comments

Jul 21 2022 // An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio took the first step Tuesday toward suing Indiana’s attorney general for defamation.Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis...

Indiana Farmers Facing Drought or Unusually Dry Conditions

Jul 18 2022 // Weeks of heat and scant rainfall have left most of Indiana facing either drought or unusually dry conditions while farmers hope significant precipitation falls soon.The U.S. Drought Monitor shows more than a third of...

Hill Group Acquires Indiana’s Howe-LaGrange and Reick Agencies

Jun 30 2022 // The Hilb Group announced that it has acquired Indiana-based Howe-LaGrange Insurance Agency and Reick Insurance Agency, expanding the company’s growing presence throughout Indiana and the Midwest. Based in LaGrange,...

Indiana’s DOXA Launches Skilled Nursing Facilities Program

Jun 7 2022 // DOXA Insurance Holdings launched of a new skilled nursing facilities program, created by Promont Insurance Advisors, a subsidiary specializing in program management in the healthcare industry. Promont Skilled Nursing will...

Indiana Investigating Slag Pit Explosion

May 26 2022 // The state of Indiana is investigating a slag pit explosion at a northwestern Indiana steel mill, it said Tuesday.The explosion Sunday in a raw materials section of the sprawling Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor West mill on...

Weather Service Confirms 3 Tornadoes Hit Indiana Over Weekend

May 25 2022 // Three tornadoes, one of which toppled a church steeple at the Indiana National Guard’s Camp Atterbury, hit parts of central and south-central Indiana on Saturday as a wave of severe thunderstorms swept across the...

Explosion at Indiana Slag Pit; No Injuries Reported

May 25 2022 // An explosion occurred in a slag pit in northwestern Indiana May 22.The blast at Lafarge North America in East Chicago Sunday afternoon was at a contractor’s facility at a mill that turns slag into cement, the...

$300,000 Settlement in Indiana Lost Eye Lawsuit

May 13 2022 // Federal court documents show the settlement amount reached by an Indiana city and a man who lost an eye after being struck by a tear gas canister police fired during 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd is...

Families of 5 Killed in Indiana FedEx Shooting File Lawsuit

May 2 2022 // Relatives of five of the eight people who were shot and killed last year at an Indianapolis FedEx warehouse by a former employee sued the shipping giant and a security company, accusing them of negligence and failing to...

Indiana Family Appeals After Wrongful Death Suit Tossed

Apr 18 2022 // The family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white Indiana police officer in 2019 is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of their wrongful death lawsuit.Eric Logan’s relatives argue in their appeal...

Indiana Travel Agent Sentenced For Wire Fraud

Apr 18 2022 // Maria Caceres an Indiana travel agent was sentenced last week to 30 months in federal prison following her conviction of wire fraud, to which she had previously plead guilty.According to court records, the 56-year old...

Families of 5 Killed in Indiana FedEx Shooting File Lawsuit

Apr 13 2022 // Relatives of five of the eight people who were shot and killed last year at an Indianapolis FedEx warehouse by a former employee sued the shipping giant and a security company on Monday, accusing them of negligence and...

Several Indiana Cities Opting Back in to Opioid Settlement

Apr 12 2022 // Indianapolis and several other Indiana cities are joining an estimated $507 million statewide opioid settlement after previously opting out of the state’s lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors.The...

Indiana Home Remodeling Company to Pay $40,000 EPA Penalty

Apr 11 2022 // U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Two Chicks and a Hammer, Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana, to resolve alleged violations of the Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule (RPR) that were...