State and Local News

A big opioid verdict in Oklahoma bodes well for nearly two dozen similar lawsuits in Indiana. The state of Indiana is suing drugmaker Purdue Pharma, accusing the company of ignoring or downplaying ...Read more

An asteroid larger than the Empire State Building will come uncomfortably close to planet Earth next month. Dubbed Asteroid 2000 QW7, it’s estimated to be between 1,000 – 2,100 feet in ...Read more

The Delaware County Coroner needs help finding the family of a Muncie woman who recently died. Judith Ann Richardson, 60, was found dead Monday in her northwest-side apartment, reports The Star ...Read more

The Pro Farmer grain marketing newsletter, sent a team of 60 field scouts across Indiana to get a late-season assessment of Indiana’s major grain crops — and it’s not good. The team said ...Read more

A new report from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation says Indiana is receiving less federal funding than it should to help combat the opioid epidemic. The report compares the amount of funding ...Read more

IUPUI men’s basketball Head Coach Jason Gardner and the school have agreed to “part ways” following Gardner’s OWI arrest in Fishers on Monday. Gardner was arrested just ...Read more

A man barricaded himself in a Huntington home for five hours on Tuesday morning after police tried to serve him a warrant. A woman answered the door and came out of the home, but Justin Crager went ...Read more

BackgroundChecks.org has published its annual report on the safest cities in each U.S. state for 2019. According to the report, Marion ranks 26th out of 43 examined cities when it comes to safety ...Read more

The Ku Klax Klan is planning to hold a “Kookout” at Jaycee Park in Madison on Saturday afternoon, reports The Courier Journal newspaper. A flier for the event says, “Make America ...Read more