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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence announced an expansive education plan Tuesday for his second year in office that will include seeking approval for vouchers for preschool-aged children, extending more state help for charter schools and paying for teachers to work in low-income school districts.
Sweeping changes that Indiana lawmakers made this year to sentencing guidelines in hopes of slowing the growth of the state's prison population will actually have the opposite effect, according to a new report.
The state’s environmental office has agreed to transfer a landfill permit to the new owner of a Madison County property at the center of a decades-long dispute.
The goal of the education MBA programs is to equip school leaders with business-type skills to lead well-funded schools to compete better internationally and to help the impoverished students in urban and rural schools catch up with their suburban peers.
An officer manager for an Indianapolis church faces charges of theft and forgery, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday, after more than $177,000 was stolen from the church’s bank accounts.
Mayor Greg Ballard and Marion County law enforcement officials on Wednesday morning expect to announce plans for a new criminal justice complex, moving operations currently located in the City-County Building and elsewhere downtown.
Hundreds of mourners gathered Monday night at Morse Reservoir to remember Aubrey Peters, the 16-year-old Noblesville girl who was shot to death Sunday night. Police arrested 20-year-old Jacob McDaniel early Monday morning. He’s charged with reckless homicide and pointing a firearm. McDaniel, who is being held on a $15,000 bond at the Hamilton County Jail, said he thought the gun was unloaded when he aimed it at Peters and pulled the trigger.
A proposed ordinance that would put severe limits on panhandling downtown was sent back to committee for changes Monday night in a unanimous vote by the City-County Council. The ordinance has received negative feedback and protests because it includes street performers. A rewritten proposal could return for a council vote in January.
Greenfield Mayor Dick Pasco, who had been suffering liver problems since soon before his 2011 election, had decided against further treatment, his family said.
The Family and Social Services Administration announced Tuesday it is extending its Healthy Indiana Plan to participants who earn between 100 percent and 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
Hubbard & Cravens plans to open in two downtown locations, restaurant Ember Urban Eatery takes space in the Villaggio, and a family entertainment center expands to Greenwood.
Napolese pizzeria and Crust Pizzeria Napoletana have quietly reached an agreement outside of court. Napolese owner Martha Hoover filed an intellectual property lawsuit against Crust owner Mohey Osman in October.
The governor's office says Pence will speak about those proposals in a speech Tuesday at Indiana's original state capital building in Corydon.
General Motors Co. named Mary Barra to succeed Dan Akerson as chief executive officer, making her the first female CEO in the global automotive industry. Former Cummins Inc. CEO and chairman Tim Solso was named GM's chairman.
The university's existing Evansville campus serves students for two years. The new site would allow students to finish their medical education in Evansville.
The U.S. government ended up losing $10.5 billion on the General Motors bailout, but it says the alternative would have been far worse.
The west-side industrial park, one of the city’s largest, is experiencing robust construction activity that includes more than just distribution centers.
State agencies will have to cut their budgets an additional 1.5 percent and state universities will see their state aid clipped by 2 percent as the state looks to make up a $141 million drop in tax collections.
Nearly 1 million food aid recipients in Indiana will have their benefit payments shifted to new days next year in a change sought by the state’s grocers.
A big boost in donations and hefty cutbacks pushed the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s annual budget into the black for the first time since 2007.
