All the headlines from our Indiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2022 // Heart of CarDon, a Bloomington, Indiana-based senior living community, will pay $115,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Apr 5 2022 // A building under construction collapsed, injuring at least two construction workers, authorities said.The building was under construction in the town of Whiteland, about 20 miles south of Indianapolis. Three construction...
Apr 4 2022 // An overnight fire heavily damaged a century-old hardware store and lumber yard that abuts a southern Indiana city’s historic downtown square, authorities said.Firefighters arrived at the scene in Scottsburg after 11...
Mar 25 2022 // An Indiana man who says he lost an eye after being struck by a tear gas canister police fired during 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd has reached a settlement with the city of Fort Wayne.Balin Brake sued the...
Mar 15 2022 // First Chicago Insurance Company announced it recently launched its augmented commercial auto insurance program in Illinois and Indiana. The program covers owned or leased Vehicles, hired autos, non-owned, temporary...
Mar 3 2022 // Avian influenza has been detected in a sixth commercial poultry flock in southern Indiana, state officials said March 1.Laboratory testing of a fourth commercial turkey flock in Dubois County has come back as presumptively...
Feb 25 2022 // Cleanup work is continuing along a southern Indiana stream, nearly two weeks after a diesel spill that originated at a gas station left the waterway with an oily sheen.The spill produced about 6.5 miles (10.5 kilometers)...
Feb 24 2022 // A man killed after getting caught in an industrial door at a western Indiana steel plant has been identified, a sheriff said.Jeffrey Stewart, 63, of Clay County died in the accident at the Steel Dynamics Heartland LLC...
Feb 23 2022 // A commercial poultry farm in Delaware with 1.2 million birds has been hit by a highly lethal form of bird flu, the state said on Wednesday, significantly expanding an outbreak that has killed U.S. chickens and turkeys.The...
Feb 22 2022 // Avian influenza has been detected in a fourth commercial poultry flock in southern Indiana, state officials said Feb. 19.Laboratory testing of a second commercial flock of turkeys in Greene County has come back as...
Feb 18 2022 // State Farm filed a $1.2 million subrogation claim against Tesla in Indiana federal court on Feb. 16, alleging negligence and strict product liability over a fire that damaged an insured’s car and residence.Two State...
Feb 16 2022 // A steel company has agreed to pay $3 million and improve the wastewater system at an Indiana mill, more than two years after a discharge of ammonia and toxic chemicals killed fish and closed beaches, the federal government...
Feb 11 2022 // A strain of avian flu that can cause high mortality rates among birds has been confirmed at a commercial turkey farm in southern Indiana, federal and state agencies said Feb. 9.The United States Department of Agriculture...
Feb 9 2022 // XPT Specialty has acquired Insurance Brokers Incorporated, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a move that continues a series of acquisitions for the company. IBI is a wholesale insurance broker and general agency...
Jan 21 2022 // Indiana Rep. Jim Baird has introduced a bill to reduce catalytic converter thefts by marking identifying information on catalytic converters, addressing how the parts are purchased, and strengthening enforceability of...
Jan 14 2022 // A coal miner died in an underground accident in southern Indiana, authorities said.The incident occurred late Jan. 7 at the Sunrise mine in Oaktown in Knox County, near the border with Illinois, Sullivan County Sheriff...
Dec 29 2021 // A ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court has expanded the limited number of people who are eligible to recover damages in lawsuits alleging negligent infliction of emotional distress.Indiana lawsuits seeking damages for...
Dec 21 2021 // An Indiana-based bank has agreed to direct more housing loans to majority-Black neighborhoods in settling a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a fair housing organization.Evansville-based Old National Bank faced...
Dec 20 2021 // Some Indiana doctors and health experts warned last week that a Republican-backed proposal aimed at limiting workplace COVID-19 vaccination requirements would hurt efforts to stem the illness as the state’s hospitals...
Dec 7 2021 // The parents of a 5-year-old girl who drowned last summer in a southwest Indiana city’s swimming pool are suing the city and the child’s foster parent, accusing them of negligence in her death.The lawsuit filed...