This seems to be about the right sentence to me. Any gun-rights advocates object?
The father of a young boy who police said shot and killed his 4-year-old sister with a gun he found in the family's home was sentenced Thursday.
James Booher, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of felony neglect of a dependent and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with two years suspended, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported.
The Indiana Department of Agriculture and the Indiana Farm Bureau are on the wrong side of this issue, and any members involved in the behind-the-scenes efforts to smear the Human Society of the United States should be ashamed of themselves.
Indiana Department of Agriculture officials have been working behind the scenes to defeat legislation that would crack down on abusive dog breeders by trying to discredit one of the bill's leading supporters.
Devil, I command you to . . . whoops!
A man who says he tried to cast demons from a 14-year-old autistic boy from southern Indiana has been convicted on charges that he injured the teen during the exorcism.
A Monroe County jury on Tuesday found 24-year-old Eddie Uyesugi guilty of felony charges of battery and criminal confinement.
You wanna make an omelet, right? I think this counts as inflicting your religion on someone.
Chris Hiatt is the president of something called CDCPTR -- Citizens of Delaware County for Property Tax Repeal. He now faces a misdemeanor charge after being indicted by a grand jury for:
knowingly making "an expenditure for the purpose of financing communications expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate through a newspaper, without the required disclaimer and without noting whether the candidates had authorized the communication."
I can't quite make myself believe this is the tragedy the speaker says it is:
MUNCIE -- Not all of the Midwest's small cities will survive globalization, according to the keynote speaker at the sixth annual Small Cities Conference late last week.
They won't exactly disappear, said Richard Longworth, a former foreign correspondent for The Chicago Tribune and United Press International.
A new dawn in the dark world of Terre Haute politics!
It wasn't quite Shakespeare, but Duke Bennett gave an audience their two hours worth at Harmony Hall Tuesday evening.
Mayor Bennett hosted the third of about 15 planned summits in the theater on North Lafayette Avenue for the 12 Points community, offering an hourlong PowerPoint presentation followed by an hour of open discussion with the 50-plus member audience.
The federal government keeps raising the standards for schools, which means more and more schools will fail to meet the standards. A reasonable query:
That raises questions of whether otherwise good schools are held to unreasonable standards or whether those standards will push schools to achieve more than they thought they could.
Perhaps a clue to the answer can be found in the standards themselves:
Does anybody else see anything mildly comical about this?
State officials are questioning plans by tax activists to dump a crate of tea bags into the Wabash River in protest of excessive government spending.
A spokeswoman for the state's environmental agency said that throwing tea into the Wabash, or any river, could hurt aquatic life by depleting the water of oxygen.
The Indiana House has approved legislation that would prohibit the governor from soliciting or receiving campaign contributions during the General Assembly's long budget-writing sessions, and the sponsor doesn't want any misunderstandings.
(Rep. Kreg) Battles says he wasn't implying that anything wrong has occurred, just that there should be more sunshine in state government.
"Mommy, Mommy! Billy got a bigger piece of cake! It's not FAIR, Mommy!"
The mayor of Greenwood said Monday his city was shortchanged when it came to the distribution of federal stimulus funds.
Republican Charles Henderson said the city had proposed several projects that he thought would create jobs and improve the area.
"We ended up with 11 different projects, but, originally, there were five we were hoping to get funded. But none of those got funded," he said.
