Finding his crime “serious and disturbing,” the Indiana Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed the 71-year sentence and robbery conviction in the death of an Indianapolis tax preparer who kept cash in a safe beneath his desk at his west side Indianapolis office.
When Indianapolis attorney Maurice Scott’s wife told him there were students at the Global Prep Academy who had questions about current government issues, he immediately volunteered to give some answers. Scott and three students travelled to Nashville, Tenn. on Thursday to participate in a national debate competition.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is praising a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax. The 5-4 decision Thursday overturns earlier rulings, which determined companies shipping products to states where they didn’t have a physical presence weren’t obligated to collect the states’ sales tax.
A celebration of life service for Lawrence Jegen III, professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, will begin at 3 p.m. June 3 in the north atrium of the Indiana Statehouse. Jegen died May 17 at 83 years old.
Seven Asian restaurants around Indiana did not report sales of more than $8 million, and their owners have been criminally charged with failing to remit nearly $675,000 in sales and food and beverage taxes to the state, authorities said Thursday.
Some residents of Griffith in northwestern Indiana’s Lake County want their community to secede from the township it’s located within.
After a number of years of relative certainty, there have been several recent developments worth noting that could impact federal estate and gift planning.