The senior watchdog of the State Department, Stephen Akard, quit his post without explanation Wednesday, a development that comes mere weeks after his own predecessor was unceremoniously fired by an openly distrustful President Donald Trump.
Read moreA federal judge in Indiana ruled for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in a suit accusing a zoo of violating the Endangered Species Act by declawing lions and tigers and prematurely taking cubs away from their mother.
Read moreAn Indiana appeals court declined to dismiss malpractice claims against a doctor who allegedly artificially inseminated a woman with his own sperm rather than a medical school resident’s donor sperm.
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The U.S. government executed the second federal inmate this week early Thursday morning, carrying out the death sentence for a man whose attorneys claimed he suffered from dementia.
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The U.S. government put to death the first federal inmate in nearly two decades Tuesday morning, executing Daniel Lewis Lee by lethal injection after the Supreme Court stepped in.
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Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, whose law license was recently suspended for a month over groping accusations, lost the Republican Party’s nomination for his job Friday as delegates narrowly chose a former congressman instead.
Read moreCalling a trial court’s injunction too broad, the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday vacated an order prohibiting Indiana from enforcing a law banning the sale of smokable hemp products.
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The FBI said Tuesday it is investigating the reported assault of a black man by a group of white men at a southern Indiana lake.
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Calling it an unconstitutional curb of free-speech rights at a “pivotal time in our history,” a federal judge blocked Indiana from enforcing a new panhandling ban set to take effect Wednesday
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The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a woman accused of stalking and harassment should not have been held in contempt for refusing to unlock her phone for law enforcement officials.
Read moreA lawsuit is seeking to have a vacancy declared following the 30-day suspension of acting Attorney General Curtis Hill which resulted from findings that he groped four women during a holiday party in 2018.
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The Indiana Supreme Court on Monday suspended the law license of Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill for 30 days after finding he committed acts of battery against several women.
Read moreA federal class action demands that Indiana allow greater access to mail-in voting in November due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Navajo Nation is ordering all people on the tribe’s sprawling reservation to wear protective masks when out in public to help fight the spread of the coronavirus.
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Indiana urged the Seventh Circuit in a telephone hearing Tuesday to throw out a preliminary injunction stopping the state from prohibiting the sale of smokable hemp.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging a newly passed law that it claims unconstitutionally bans panhandling in any downtown area statewide.
Read moreA class of students at Purdue University is suing for restitution for tuition, housing, meals and other fees after being sent home from campus because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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