State and Local News

Former Indiana First Lady Susan Bayh is fighting brain cancer and had surgery earlier this week to remove a malignant tumor. The wife of former Governor and Senator Evan Bayh is hospitalized in ...Read more

Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will hold a tailgate food distribution Thursday morning at its’ new Muncie location, in the parking lot east of the Muncie Mall. Free food will be ...Read more

Indiana Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch visited Marion Monday, speaking to the Marion-Grant County Chamber of Commerce and generally getting to know the people of Grant County. Crouch says ...Read more

Fireworks are coming back to Matter Park in Marion for the 4th of July Celebration. Fireworks left Matter Park a few years ago to move to downtown Marion on the 4th of July, but city leaders felt ...Read more

Marion Community Schools will offer free physical exams to any local student planning to take part in athletics next school year. The physicals will be for kids currently in 4th through 11th grades ...Read more

A Huntington University Professor and an Alabama-based Civil Rights group yesterday approached the Grant County Commissioners about placing a marker on the courthouse lawn to commemorate the ...Read more

Indiana State Police and Miami County authorities are investigating the death of a Summitville man, whose body was found over the weekend along a trail east of Peru. State Police say the body of ...Read more

Beth Goetz was introduced Monday as Ball State University’s new Athletic Director. Goetz is a native of St. Louis and has previous experience in college athletics…having worked at ...Read more

Area unemployment rates continue to be low, in fact all of the jobless rates for area counties went down in April. Grant County’s jobless rate dropped three-tenths of a percentage point last ...Read more

Area unemployment rates continue to be low.  In fact, all of the jobless rates for area counties went down in April. Howard County’s jobless rate dropped one-tenth of a percentage point last ...Read more