Riley News

A man and his toddler son were undergoing treatment at Indianapolis hospitals Tuesday evening after a train knocked them off a trestle and into Otter Creek, where their neighbors were swimming.

Katron Walker will avoid a death penalty trial by pleading guilty to murder and attempted murder in an agreement entered Monday in Vigo Superior Court Division 3. Judge David R. Bolk accepted the guilty pleas and set the case for sentencing sometime in August.

A couple of weeks ago, I had the occasion to listen to Indiana's governor deliver the commencement address at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a small engineering college east of Terre Haute.

For the second time in less than a week, a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak early Wednesday forced NASA to delay shuttle Endeavour's launch to the international space station, this time until July at the earliest.

Contemporary art is melding with Delphi history this weekend. A new art gallery featuring native Carroll County artists is opening its doors during the Heritage Transportation Festival this weekend.

When Astronaut Dave Wolf heads into space Saturday morning aboard the space shuttle Endeavor, it will be with a large contingency of Hoosiers watching nearby.

The strongest indication of just how much stress was produced by the massive flooding of June 7, 2008, probably lies in the high level of response to a stress survey by Indiana State University psychology students.

The driver of a minivan is dead after being hit by a train and dragged about 90 feet down the track.

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Lt. Governor Becky Skillman announced Wednesday that 21 communities and community organizations will share $50 million to buy abandoned or foreclosed homes, demolish or redevelop vacant properties and help low- and moderate-income home buyers purchase properties.

It took more than three hours and 50-firefighters to extinguish Tuesday's fire at Modesitt Law Firm.

Howard County arrests Friday, 7:45 a.m., deputies arrested Andrew H. Salyers, 21, 1900 block of South LaFountain Street, at home, on a body attachment warrant, and on Class D felony charges of possession of marijuana and maintaining a common nuisance.

Indiana American Water customers in Terre Haute and in the Wabash Valley would pay an average of $150 more per year if a rate increase petition filed by the company last week with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commissioner is approved.

It was a crackerbarrell session that wasn't supposed to have been, and local legislators say Gov.

A head-on car accident on Indiana 63 in southern Vigo County Friday afternoon resulted in several people being transported to the hospital.

A Tell City man who may have suffered a sudden medical problem died Tuesday from injuries he sustained in a four-vehicle accident that also claimed the life of his passenger.

Vigo County officials are taking steps they hope can speed up a process to get spring property tax bills into mailboxes by mid-to-late July, with tax payments due mid-to-late August.

A Friday night fire destroys a building in Riley, Indiana. Firefighters were called out to a two story building on Tanglewood Road just after midnight.

A Valley home is destroyed after an early morning fire. It happened at a home in the Tanglewood subdivision in Riley.

Why no seat belts on school buses? The Tribune-Star TERRE HAUTE - Why no seat belts on school buses? I am a concerned citizen and parent who is wondering if you could do a story on my concern because I think it needs to be addressed and it is a major concern that needs the public's opinion.