A lawsuit filed Thursday claims the Indiana Department of Child Services violated federal law when it proposed to slash assistance for three profoundly disabled children after their grandparents who served as foster parents planned to adopt them.
A federal appeals court in New York has rejected the American Civil Liberties Union's effort to stop bulk collection of its phone records while a more limited collection system is put in place.
A county has reached a $165,000 settlement with two families over a body mix-up at a morgue that led to one Indiana man being incorrectly cremated and another man entombed in his place.
Eight companies are suing New Albany, alleging that changes made last year to a major thoroughfare in the southern Indiana city have made the road narrow and unsafe.
Federal prosecutors have copies of audio recordings a Florida woman says she made of former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle talking about sexual encounters he had with children and say they took those recordings "into account" before charging Fogle.
A federal judge has sentenced a former western Indiana county auditor to 20 months in prison for embezzling $340,000 in public funds.
Apple Inc. is fighting the U.S. Justice Department’s demand for access to data on an iPhone seized during a drug probe just days after the company’s chief executive officer squared off against the director of National Security Agency over privacy.
The attorney for Katina Powell says his client is unlikely to cooperate with authorities and the National Collegiate Athletic Association unless she receives immunity for her allegations that a former University of Louisville men's basketball staffer hired her and other dancers to strip and have sex with recruits and players.
Marion County Auditor Julie Voorhies sued the city of Indianapolis on Monday over its contract with BlueIndy, saying the city illegally paid $6 million to the electric car-sharing service.
The latest hearing resolved some lingering issues, but old and new challenges continue to haunt a death penalty case that remains so mired in preliminaries that prosecutors and defense lawyers will no longer even estimate an approximate trial date.
In a brief hearing Thursday, members of the Interim Study Committee on Public Policy voted to leave the state’s smoking ban alone.
Indiana and 22 other states filed a legal challenge Friday to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new rule requiring existing power plants to make technological changes to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The rule change is expected to unleash a flood of lawsuits from lawyers challenging everything from the timing to the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s signature climate initiative.
The U.S. dropped insider-trading charges against Michael Steinberg, a former fund manager at SAC Capital Advisors LP who was convicted by a federal jury, in the latest fallout from a major appeals court ruling that made such prosecutions more difficult.
New data released from the Indiana State Department of Health shows that the state has set another record for medical errors.
Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday morning announced that the state would use about $250 million from Indiana's surplus to finish paying back the federal government for a loan the state took out to pay unemployment benefits during the recession.
A police officer faces 13 felony charges in connection with the 2015 primary election in Ohio County.
The FBI has opened a hate crime investigation into an attack on a Muslim woman in which police say a 19-year-old Indiana University college student shouted racial slurs and tried to remove her headscarf.
For close watchers of the interactions between the Justice Department and the financial industry, the mistrial in the Dewey & LeBoeuf case was about more than just the fact that a handful of jurors were too overwhelmed by the evidence presented to reach a verdict. The mistrial, after four months in court and 22 days of deliberations, hints at a much deeper problem: Perhaps most financial crime has simply reached a level of such complexity that it's beyond the reach of the law.
Indiana is set to receive a portion of a $4 million settlement with UPS Inc. following allegations that the shipping company overcharged government customers in 14 states.
Plaintiff and defense lawyers and state officials are close to an agreement on legislation to reform Indiana’s Medical Malpractice Act, a key state senator said Tuesday.