Howard County officials say they hope to establish a court where military veterans from four counties can receive treatment or enter a diversion program rather than go to jail for offenses.
A city attorney says Memphis, Tennessee, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans will enter mediation over the removal of a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest from a public park.
Like almost everyone else in America, thieves tend to carry their cellphones with them to work.
Hundreds of legislative employees can now carry handguns at the Indiana Statehouse and adjacent state office buildings in Indianapolis, but with some limitations.
A British law firm says the ride-hailing firm Uber could now face legal claims after a data breach that saw hackers steal the personal information of some 57 million people around the world.
A former doctor accused of molesting girls while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University pleaded guilty Wednesday in Lansing, Michigan, to multiple charges of sexual assault and will face at least 25 years in prison.
The Allen County sheriff says 11 of his jail employees were treated with the overdose antidote Narcan after being exposed to smoke containing the opioid painkiller fentanyl.
Republican legislative leaders are casting the Indiana General Assembly’s upcoming session as one they want to focus on taking action toward fighting opioid abuse and improving job training opportunities.
Ratko Mladic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army, was sentenced Wednesday at The Hague, Netherlands, to life imprisonment after a United Nations special court found him guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity that it labeled as some of the “most heinous” in human history.
The Indiana Department of Correction is negotiating with a company to provide tablets with educational and entertainment materials for all inmates.
Legislative leaders are leery of a proposal backed by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce to raise the state’s legal age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21.
A former Terre Haute sheriff’s deputy convicted of federal civil rights violations has been resentenced to 33 months.
Indiana lawmakers are returning to the Statehouse as they prepare for the upcoming legislative session.
Indiana House minority leader Scott Pelath says he’s giving up that post and won’t seek re-election next year.
An Elkhart County official says the nation’s largest private prison operator is seeking land for a proposed detention center for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
A former councilman for the town of Merrillville has admitted taking bribes in a federal plea agreement.
The estate of a woman who died this year has donated $300,000 toward maintaining a historic Fort Wayne courthouse.
Hammond has become the latest government entity to sue pharmaceutical companies and distributors for their alleged role in fueling the opioid abuse crisis.
Jurors in the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez didn’t think the government’s case was strong enough to convict the New Jersey Democrat and a wealthy friend, according to interviews with members of the panel after a mistrial was declared Thursday.
The federal bribery trial of Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez ended Thursday with the jury hopelessly deadlocked on all charges, a partial victory for him that could nevertheless leave the case hanging over his head as he gears up for re-election to a sharply divided Senate.