Latest Indiana Headlines
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Indiana Man Pleads Guilty to Arson of Barn Fires
Oct 27 2022 // A man has pleaded guilty in connection with a series of barn fires set last year in several northern Indiana counties. An Elkhart County judge gave preliminary approval Monday to the plea agreement with Joseph Hershberger...
Flexsteel to Pay $9.8M For Contamination Cleanup at Indiana Site
Oct 26 2022 // Flexsteel Industries Inc. has agreed to a consent decree that requires it to pay $9.8 million for the cleanup of contamination at the Lane Street Ground Water Contamination Superfund Site (Lane Street Site) in Elkhart,...
Federal Judge Dismisses FedEx From Indiana Shooting Lawsuit, Citing Work Comp Act
Oct 20 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed FedEx from a lawsuit filed by relatives of five of the eight people who were fatally shot last year at an Indianapolis warehouse by a former employee of the shipping giant. U.S. District Judge...
Indiana Teen’s Parents Sue City Over Fatal Crash Involving Police Chase
Oct 17 2022 // The parents of a northern Indiana teenager who died along with her boyfriend when a vehicle being chased by police crashed into their car in 2020 is suing the city of Mishawaka. The lawsuit filed by Elizabeth...
Indiana Mayor’s Blood Alcohol Was Twice State Limit When He Struck Car
Oct 14 2022 // The mayor of Indiana’s second-largest city had a blood alcohol reading nearly twice the state’s limit for driving when he was arrested over the weekend for drunken driving, court records show. Fort Wayne Mayor...
Indiana Approves Decrease in Workers’ Comp Rates for 2023
Oct 5 2022 // Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Amy L. Beard recently approved a decrease of 10.3% on average for Workers‘ Compensation rates recommended by the Indiana Compensation Rating Bureau (ICRB), effective...
EEOC: Indiana-Based Pharmaceutical Corporation Sued for Age Discrimination
Sep 27 2022 // Lilly USA, LLC, a pharmaceutical corporation based in Indianapolis, Indiana, violated federal law by intentionally failing to hire older workers based on their age for pharmaceutical sales representative positions from...
BP Reaches $2.75 Million Settlement Over Indiana Refinery Pollution
Sep 21 2022 // Oil titan BP reached a $2.75 million settlement over air pollution from its largest refinery after environmentalists complained of repeated emissions violations at the Whiting facility in Indiana. The agreement is the...
Indiana Steelworker Dies After Industrial Accident
Sep 20 2022 // A steelworker who was injured last week in an industrial accident at a northwest Indiana steel mill has died at a Chicago hospital, officials said. Michael Osika, 44, of Schererville died Saturday after being injured...
Crash That Killed Indiana Congresswoman Blamed on Failed Passing Attempt
Sep 19 2022 // A staffer for U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was trying to pass a flat-bed truck on a northern Indiana highway last month when the SUV they were in crashed into an oncoming car, killing Walorski and three other people, police...
Indiana Court Sides With Catholic Diocese in Teacher Dismissal
Sep 19 2022 // The Indiana Supreme Court ruled recently that religious freedom rights protect the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis from being sued by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school for being in a...
Indiana City to Pay $1.7 Million in Deadly Police Chase Crash
Sep 15 2022 // The city of Evansville, Indiana has agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle a woman’s lawsuit stemming from a 2017 police chase crash that killed her two children and her husband and left her seriously injured. The...
State Agency to Assess Flood Damage in 3 SE Indiana Counties
Sep 12 2022 // Officials in three southeastern Indiana counties have declared local disasters following flash flooding last weekend that killed one woman and damaged numerous homes and roads. Staffers with the Indiana Department of...
Flash Flooding in Southern Indiana Kills 1, Damages Several Homes
Sep 7 2022 // A woman was killed during weekend flash flooding in rural southeastern Indiana that damaged numerous homes and washed away several roads, officials said. Normally small creeks were overwhelmed as perhaps eight inches of...
Indiana Court Sides With Catholic Diocese in Teacher Dismissal
Sep 6 2022 // The Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that religious freedom rights protect the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis from being sued by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school for being in...
3 Indiana State Students Killed in Car Crash
Aug 23 2022 // Two freshman members of the Indiana State University football team were among the three students who were killed in a weekend crash, officials said Monday. Two other football team members who were injured in the crash were...
Indiana House Explosion Victims Died of Trauma Asphyxia
Aug 18 2022 // Preliminary autopsy results released Monday for the three victims of a house explosion in a southern Indiana neighborhood show they died of blunt force trauma and compression asphyxia. A married couple who lived at the...
Cause Sought for Indiana House Explosion That Killed 3, Damaged 39 Homes
Aug 12 2022 // Authorities worked Thursday to determine the cause of a house explosion in a southern Indiana neighborhood that killed three people and left another person hospitalized. The explosion Wednesday afternoon in Evansville...
Indiana Metalworking Lubricants Company to Pay $310,000 over Clean Air Act Violations
Aug 12 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Indiana Department of Environmental Management announced a settlement on August 5 with Metalworking Lubricants Co. for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its used oil...
Indiana House Explosion Leaves 3 Dead, 39 Homes Damaged
Aug 10 2022 // An explosion at an Evansville, Indiana house killed three people and damaged 39 houses, officials said Wednesday afternoon. Evansville Fire Department Chief Mike Connelly said two of the people killed were in the house of...
