Noel faces a 15-year prison sentence but with three of those years suspended to probation if the deal is approved by the judge. He ultimately could serve as little as six years with good time credit.
The last two parents of medically fragile children receiving state payments for attendant care will transition to Structured Family Caregiving with everyone else following a Friday court ruling. But the federal judge presiding over the attendant care lawsuit ruled that FSSA must “arrange” for families to receive in-home skilled nursing services on top of that program.
Any decision about whether or not to pardon former Clark County Sheriff and longtime Republican operative Jamey Noel of his crimes won’t come from the Holcomb administration, Gov. Eric Holcomb said Friday.
In less than 45 minutes, a dozen committee members swiftly moved through a Wednesday agenda analyzing nine Indiana government commissions to determine whether the boards still existed functionally or only on paper.
School accountability, teacher salary boosts and “academic freedom” are priorities on Jennifer McCormick’s education plan, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate announced on Thursday.
A survey sent to Noblesville area voters from a national conservative think tank contends election fraud is on the rise as part of illegal attempts to steal elections.
Responding to pressure, state officials are considering whether or not they can tap into a pool of federal dollars to provide relief for a narrow subset of Hoosiers on Medicaid waiver waitlists. Indiana Medicaid Director Cora Steinmetz described the process during a two-hour Medicaid Oversight Committee Tuesday alongside updates on various Medicaid initiatives.
The appeals process could take months, likely closing the door on any movement in the classified documents case against Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, before November’s election.
Former Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel pleaded guilty to 27 of 31 felony charges in court Monday as part of a plea deal in a massive corruption case that could land him in prison for more than a decade.
Indiana’s counties collectively earn hundreds of thousands of dollars annually from the federal government in child welfare-related public defense reimbursements — but could earn more if all 92 chose to take part.
Indiana’s State Budget Committee on Thursday approved a combined $101 million for a water pipeline, land and infrastructure for a controversial industrial park.
Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales sent a cease and desist letter on Thursday to BlackRock — the world’s largest asset manager — for alleged securities fraud, accusing the company of making “false and misleading statements” about their environmental, social or governance (ESG) funds and allocation focus.
Arrests following the 2022 deaths of 53 migrants in Texas who were left in a sweltering tractor-trailer have climbed to more than a dozen, and now stretch to Central America, following years of investigations into the deadliest smuggling attempt from the U.S.-Mexico border.
When pandemic-era tenant protections expired, rents immediately soared, and eviction filings surged last year more than 50% over pre-pandemic levels in some U.S. cities.
Legislators on the state’s Medicaid Advisory Committee spent hours Wednesday questioning state officials about Indiana’s ongoing lawsuit over provisions of the Healthy Indiana Plan as well as progress reports on the state’s transition to managed care, otherwise known as PathWays.
Indiana’s Senate Enrolled Act 17 has never gone live, despite an effectiveness date of July 1.
The bipartisan commission charged with assuaging the state’s attorney shortage recommended funding legal practice startups and a regulatory “sandbox” agency — among other budgetary and legislative suggestions — in an interim report released Thursday.
Attorneys trying to preserve attendant care services for two Hoosier families appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt on Tuesday, urging her to order an injunction that would halt their transition to structured family care.
“I remember thinking, this is the only way I was able to become a mother,” Gomez told Stateline. She and her husband went through years of fertility treatments and multiple rounds of IVF before the birth of their daughter in 2016. Without freezing her embryos and going through IVF, she said, “I would not be a mom. My 8-year-old would not be here.”
A March law — the Legislature’s third attempt to kill the case — lets only the Indiana attorney general sue the firearm industry. It’s retroactive to August 27, 1999 — three days before Gary filed its lawsuit.