Bloomington News

SOUL PICNIC PRODUCTIONS, presents Melissa Hammans in BACK TO THE GARDEN: The Music of Joni Mitchell , Carole King , and Laura Nyro this weekend, August 1st and 2nd, 2014 at Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, Bloomington, IN.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A scene straight out of an action movie played out in real life on an 80-foot high railroad bridge outside Bloomington, Ind., on July 10: Two women on the Shuffle Creek trestle tried to outrun an approaching freight train, and one appears to consider jumping, before lying down on the middle of the tracks at the last second.

Chemists at Indiana University Bloomington have described the self-assembly of large, symmetrical molecules in bricks-and-mortar fashion, a development with potential value for the field of organic electronic devices such as field-effect transistors and photovoltaic cells.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- A Florida woman who let her 7-year-old son walk alone to a park has been charged with felony child neglect.

A video camera captured the terrifying plight of two women who became trapped on an 80-foot-high railroad bridge in Indiana when a freight train surprised them as they walked along the tracks.

The first thing to remember before you watch this video is the two women on the tracks are alive and well.

Fond du Lac police say a 37-year-old man was taken into custody Wednesday morning after an armed domestic disturbance.

A scene straight out of an action movie played out in real life on an 80-foot high railroad bridge outside Bloomington, Ind., on July 10: Two women on the Shuffle Creek trestle tried to outrun an approaching freight train, and one appears to consider jumping, before laying down on the middle of the tracks at the last second.

It's an agreement between 17 co-working and innovation centers called Indiana CoWorking Passport , which allows members to work at the spaces for one day each month for free.

A video camera captured the terrifying plight of two women who became trapped on an 80-foot-high railroad bridge by a freight train that surprised them as they walked along the tracks.

The Indiana Department of Transportation now plans for the Interstate 69 extension to reach Bloomington by the end of 2015, a year later than originally planned.

On July 23, 2014, the Indiana Finance Authority closed financing on its second availability payment P3 project, the I-69 Section 5 highway project , a 21-mile reconstruction project located outside of Bloomington Indiana, the home of Indiana University.

Hud Mellencamp, 20, was arrested in Indiana earlier this month after cops allegedly caught him consuming alcohol, and the incident sparked fears he could go to jail as he is currently out on bail fighting a felony battery charge.

Prosecutors have charged a 35-year-old man with fatally shooting a man outside his rural southwestern Indiana home and then raping a woman inside the home.

Emergency officials called to check out a suspected gas leak in Germany found a culprit they didn't expect: a fridge full of rotting food.

They were not supposed to play in Long Grove in the first place. Now they're coming back for a second time.

This summer, the North American Interfraternity Conference hosted its 25th Undergraduate Interfraternity Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, and 10 Austin Peay State University students received scholarships to attend the event.

The Mundelein Police Explorer Post #184 recently earned third place for their performance at the 2014 National Law Enforcement Exploring Conference in Bloomington, Indiana.

Miles away from the somber ceremony on a tarmac where coffins containing the remains of victims of Flight MH17 were returned, dozens of forensic scientists at a military base in the Netherlands were preparing for the grim task of identifying the remains.

Capt. Troy Thomas of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office tells The Herald-Times the remains found Monday on the city's east side are believed to be those of a missing person whose case the office was working on.