Regional News

Indiana officials say that not only is the free or reduced lunch program on a serious upswing across the state, but 41 percent of all public school students receive it – about 4 in 10.

A couple of correctional officers working at the Indiana State Prison have reportedly been released from the hospital after being stabbed earlier last week by an inmate. Pam James, a spokesperson for the prison said that even though one of the guards was treated after the incident at a nearby hospital and returned to work later that evening, the second guard wasn’t that lucky, sustaining injuries

The body of an Indiana Marine has finally made it home after being killed nearly 70 years ago during the U.S. invasion of some Japanese islands in World War II. Sources say that 20-year-old Marine Pfc. Manley Forrest Winkley suffered lethal injuries while engaged in combat on November 20, 1943 on the first day of the Tarawa Island Atoll invasion in the Pacific Gilbert Islands. After seven decades,

Here’s to going to jail! The Indiana State Excise Police say they were responsible for arresting nearly 370 people statewide over the past weekend due to alcohol and drug related crimes.

The chances of surviving a run in with  a train going over 100 miles per hour are probably not very good. However, one Indiana man has proved that in match between man versus locomotive, sometimes man makes it out alive.

While Indiana is best known for cornfields, basketball and Indy car racing, a state crime task force says it is also a breeding ground for twisted perversion.

An Indiana State Police officer, working out of the Evansville post, was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly went on a drunken tirade in a bar in Fishers, Indiana.

Here in Indiana, fair food is a huge part of the Hoosier diet - with the state’s mad science culinary vision and its you name it, we’ll deep fry it philosophy, you can never really tell, exactly, what sort of bizarre food you will find being served out of a mobile food cart. Take, for example, bacon donuts.

What a bone-a-fide discovery. Researchers say they have discovered the nearly intact skeleton of a 50,000-year-old animal with pig like features inside a Southern Indiana cave. According to reports, crews from the Indiana State Museum found the remains of the creature earlier this week after digging in the Crawford County cave for over 25 years.

Indiana wants the U.S. Supreme Court to permit prayers that subscribe to specific religious affiliations to be recited prior to all public government assemblies. In an attempt to make this happen, the Indiana attorney general’s office signed a friend-of-the-court memo earlier last week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to exemplify public bodies that prefer to reference denominational alliances. Read