The Seventh Circuit upheld the constitutionality of a Hammond, Indiana, ordinance that requires residential property owners to hire a licensed contractor repair the home, or do the repairs themselves, if they derive income from it. Homeowners who occupy their own property get an exemption.
Read moreA steel company apologized for a spill of cyanide and ammonia that led to a fish kill and prompted the closure of beaches along Lake Michigan.
Read moreA school is not liable for the death of a 16-year-old student, who was murdered after he left school early through an unmonitored school exit, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled, finding the teen contributorily negligent for leaving school to either purchase guns or drugs.
Read moreSouth Bend, Indiana, mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg unveiled a policy plan Thursday that aims to lessen the impacts of systemic racial inequality on black Americans by overhauling the criminal justice system and making large economic and education investments.
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg is combating perceptions that he’s out of touch with black people and will struggle to win their votes. And he has a message for white liberals who decry racism: “Good intentions are not going to be enough.”
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A judge appointed a special prosecutor Wednesday to investigate a white police officer’s fatal shooting of a black man in the Indiana city where Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is mayor.
Read moreSeven Indiana companies filed a federal lawsuit Friday to challenge to the state’s ban on smokable hemp, which is set to go into effect on Monday.
Read moreThe fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in South Bend, Indiana, sparked community outrage and a federal lawsuit, and has taken its toll on the city’s mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.
Read moreNine foster children claim in a federal class action that Indiana has failed to protect them from abuse and neglect while placing them in homes and reuniting them with their parents.
Read moreIndiana’s top law enforcement official faces a federal lawsuit from three female statehouse staffers and one lawmaker who accuse him of inappropriate comments and touching at a staff party last year.
Read moreA man has died after a shooting involving a police officer in South Bend, the Indiana city where Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is mayor.
Read moreA federal judge ordered Indiana to grant Whole Woman’s Health Alliance a license to operate a clinic that offers abortion services in South Bend, Indiana.
Read moreReinstating Indiana rules that require aborted fetuses to either be buried or cremated, the Supreme Court chided the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday for failing to recognize the state’s legitimate interest.
Read moreA rapid-fire line of tornadoes tore across Indiana and Ohio overnight, packed so closely together that one crossed the path carved by another. The storms strew debris so thick that highway crews had to use snowplows to clear an interstate.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg jabbed at President Trump during a Fox News town hall Sunday, saying he understands why people and the media are “mesmerized” by his tweets because “it is the nature of grotesque things that you can’t look away.”
Read moreDemocratic presidential hopeful and California Rep. Eric Swalwell made a stop in his wife’s hometown on Sunday to speak in front of a group of potential voters to make his case for being his parties’ next presidential nominee.
Read moreVoters are challenging Indiana’s law that governs the process of determining the authenticity of signatures on absentee ballots by claiming that the flawed process has led to valid votes being thrown out.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit on Thursday vacated a settlement between an Indiana sheriff’s office and the American Civil Liberties Union that prohibited cooperation with federal immigration authorities without a warrant, finding the state has standing to protect its interest in cooperating with immigration enforcement efforts.
Read moreIndiana is now among the rapidly expanding number of states that will allow sports betting after Governor Eric Holcomb signed a sweeping gambling bill into law Wednesday.
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