Indiana

A college student visiting New York City was the unintended target of deadly gunfire Saturday morning in Brooklyn, police said. Police officials say 20-year-old Ethan Williams of Indiana was found around 2:30 a.m. on Eldert Street with a gunshot wound to his chest. He later died at Wyckoff Medical Center. The victim’s family says the Indiana University student was...

At least seven states have set new records for single-day increases in coronavirus cases, prompting some to set new restrictions as concerns mount over possible “superspreader events” during the upcoming holiday season.

A young boy attempted to fight off attackers in a home invasion in South Bend, Indiana, amazingly trying to save his mom by throwing objects at the intruders. Police Tuesday were asking for the public’s help identifying the four men involved in the violent home invasion. WNDU reports police said the men forced their way into the home on...

Security camera video shows three armed individuals entering an Indiana home and a boy jumping to defend his family.

During what would normally be primetime for Midwest apple-picking, orchards around Indiana are running out of apples early this season following a late spring freeze that obliterated much of the state’s crop.

Federal authorities say eight missing children were rescued in a five-day rescue operation in the Indianapolis area.

After the Supreme Court’s decision not to stop the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, the U.S. government carried out the first federal execution in nearly two decades on Tuesday.

The FBI says it’s investigating the reported assault of a Black man by a group of white men at a southern Indiana lake

A Black man says a group of white men assaulted him and threatened to “get a noose” after claiming that he and his friends had trespassed on private property as they gathered at an Indiana lake over the Fourth of July weekend. Vauhxx Booker, a local civil rights activist and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, posted cellphone video on...

A private funeral for Joe Jackson was held at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California, Monday, E! News reported. Family members, including Janet Jackson, were spotted at the funeral.

Reopening the economy is preferable to preventing a new wave of coronavirus deaths, an Indiana congressman said Tuesday.

 A man who claims he has killed more than 90 women across the country confessed to strangling two women in Indiana on the same night in October 1980, authorities said Friday. Samuel Little, 79, confessed to killing Valeria Boyd, 18, and Mary Ann Porter, 31, both of Fort Wayne, the Allen County Sheriff’s Department said. Detectives interviewed Little at the Wise…

The Baypath Humane Society in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, takes a specialized approach to helping each pet find the right home. Volunteer Kim Melanson says it’s not about a pet’s physical appearance, it’s about their personality and the shelter works hard to match each dog or cat with the right family.

Redskins rookie Wes Martin is committed to dog rescue as much if not more than football.

An Indiana professor who called the police after a student declined to change seats during class last month has been suspended, the school said.

More than 2,000 fetal remains found last year in Illinois were laid to rest at an Indiana cemetery Wednesday, NBC News reported.

More than 2,400 sets of fetal remains found last year at the suburban Chicago home of one of the Midwest’s most prolific abortion doctors were buried Wednesday in Indiana, a state with some of the nation’s toughest anti-abortion laws.

A 4-year-old Indiana boy died after he was accidentally shot with his father’s gun while the two were play-wrestling, NBC News reports. The child, Tripp Shaw, and his father were playing on a bed inside a home near Bloomington, Indiana, on Sunday night, NBC affiliate WTHR in Indianapolis reported. The handgun, which had been concealed on the small of the father’s back,...

A 102-year-old man who is Indiana’s oldest state employee is retiring after nearly six decades on the job, saying that “your body tells you when it’s time to go.” Bob Vollmer plans to report to work for the last time Feb. 6 as a surveyor for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The southern Indiana man, whose mother lived...

Indiana’s Republican leaders oppose taking steps toward following Michigan and Illinois in legalizing marijuana use during the upcoming legislative session. Indiana lawmakers have not seriously debated steps such as allowing medical marijuana or removing the threat of jail time for possessing small amounts of the drug, even as recreational marijuana sales have won approval in Michigan and Illinois and medical...