State and Local News

Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight has been honored by fellow Indiana Mayors for his focus on quality-of-life improvements and innovation. Goodnight was given the 2018 Russell Lloyd Distinguished Service ...Read more

A group of Indiana University-Kokomo students are doing their part to solve the food desert problem in Kokomo by building and stocking a food oasis.  It’s a large wooden box filled with ...Read more

The city of Muncie hopes to develop housing near the proposed site for the new Delaware County Jail. County officials have proposed using the old ASONS Building that was once Wilson Middle School ...Read more

Good news for motorists who travel West Jackson Street in Muncie…a portion of that road should be re-paved before the end of October. City officials say work on re-paving Jackson Street ...Read more

Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will hold a tailgate food distribution Friday morning outside the old Sears Store at the Five Points Mall in Marion. Free food will be handed out to ...Read more

The Grant County Council is saying no to raises for most county workers for next year…though council members say they would like to give them one. Council members denied giving raises for ...Read more

A former nursing assistant at the Marion V-A hospital was sentenced to 16-years in prison yesterday for allegedly performing a sex act on a patient. Scott Morris was convicted of Criminal Deviate ...Read more

Friday will be a day to honor and help out veterans during the Veterans Stand Down at the Grant County Y-M-C-A from 9 a-m until 2 p-m. The V-A Northern Indiana Health Care System is holding a ...Read more

About half of Indiana students flunked this year’s ISTEP test…about the same as last year. The State Department of Education calls the performance “stable.”   The passing ...Read more

Indiana University has renamed its School of Global and International Studies in honor of two well-known Hoosiers, former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former Senator Richard Lugar. I-U President ...Read more