Category: News

  • AG's food drive generates $49k for food banks

    INDIANAPOLIS – Attorney General Greg Zoeller is declaring his March Against Hunger food drive a success. Zoeller says his charity drive collected $49,000 and roughly 8,200 pounds for state food banks […]

  • Indiana begins effort to trim bloated voter registration lists

    ndiana’s voter registration lists are bloated, state officials say, and they have started the long process to pare them down. The goal is to get rid of names of ineligible […]

  • State lawmakers to study ways to help medical device industry

    A move by state lawmakers to study ways to help  Indiana’s medical device industry could have impacts on the Bloomington area. And at least one medical device  manufacturer based in Bloomington — […]

  • Venue for Indiana GOP convention will allow guns

    FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The main venue for the Indiana Republican state convention will allow delegates to bring guns with them after all. Party officials had said Fort Wayne’s […]

  • Congressman Messer appointed to House Financial Services Committee

    WASHINGTON—Tuesday, Congressman Luke Messer (IN-06) was officially appointed to serve on the House Committee on Financial Services. “Congressman Messer will be a valuable asset to the Financial Services Committee,” said […]

  • BSU hires 'experienced captain' from Maine

    MUNCIE — Ball State University’s board of trustees on Thursdayhired  an “experienced captain” to steer the university into a “cloudy future.” The trustees named Paul W. Ferguson, 61, currently the president […]

  • Indiana ranks 4th in nation in coal power

    INDIANAPOLIS – Coal-dependent Indiana, which gets 84 percent of its electricity from coal-fired power, ranks fourth in the nation behind West Virginia, Kentucky and Wyoming in the amount of its power […]

  • Stutzman has new chief of staff

    After his election in 2010, U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman hired John Hammond IV for his Washington, D.C., staff. On Wednesday, Stutzman announced he has chosen Hammond to run his office […]

  • Fort Wayne council debates scaling back or ending collective bargaining for city workers

    FORT WAYNE, Indiana — Hundreds of Fort Wayne city workers and others booed at times as City Council members discussed proposals to scale back or eliminate collective bargaining for city […]