A northwest Indiana man has been sentenced to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to blackmailing a 16-year-old New York girl into sending him nude photos over the Internet.
Two freshman Democratic senators from conservative states, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, have joined the growing chorus of lawmakers who say they support gay marriage.
WASHINGTON — Two freshman Democratic senators from conservative states, Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, have joined the growing chorus of lawmakers who say they support gay marriage.
WADSWORTH, Ill. — One person died and dozens of elementary school children were taken to hospitals Friday after a school bus crash in northern Illinois that left two cars mangled and the bus on its side, authorities said.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Tim Pernetti is out as Rutgers athletic director, two days after the basketball coach was fired following a video that went public of Mike Rice shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using anti-gay slurs.
INDIANAPOLIS — A private jet coming in for an emergency landing bounced several times on the runway of a northern Indiana airport before crashing into nearby homes, killing two people and injuring three more, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released Friday.
A University of Rochester professor's hypothetical question about whether the rape of an unconscious person should be illegal has led to demands he be censured or fired.
CHICAGO — Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who become the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation's most influential thumb, died Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He was 70.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says he believes local school officials should make decisions about school security rather than being required to have an employee armed with a loaded gun during school hours.
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is not building a phone or an operating system. Rather, Facebook is introducing a mobile experience called "Home" that makes the social network the hub of any smartphone that runs Google's Android operating system.
AKRON, Ohio — A self-styled street preacher was sentenced to death Thursday in the killings of three down-and-out men lured by bogus job offers posted on Craigslist.
With graduation a month away, some students have feared that Ball State’s iconic Frog Baby statue wouldn’t return in time for that final picture.
Indiana’s state schools superintendent signaled her opposition Wednesday to a plan that would require public and charter schools to have an employee armed with a loaded gun.
Suicide prevention organizations will address a topic that a walk organizer describes as a “blacklist topic.”
