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INDIANA GOVERNOR CANCELS STATE'S INCENTIVES TO PROPOSED NEW FERTILIZER FACILITY May 20, 2013 IndyStar.com reports: The fate of a controversial $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in Southern Indiana remains unclear after Gov.

Thirteen-year-old Sean Ives is from Crown Point. The seventh grader is also one of 12 Indiana students that will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee next week Among that group is a Granger seventh grader, Margaret Flaherty Peterson .

That amounted to the largest one-month decrease in the unemployment rate in more than one year.

After all, his supervisor at the Texas Department of Public Safety had worked for his company’s competitor and had approved his outside job.

In this April photo, teacher Lindsey Landis plays with 1-year-old Haelynn House at The Learning Community, the IPFW-affiliated child-care center.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A little more than a year after tornadoes ripped across southern Indiana, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying hundreds of homes and businesses, the state has seen a relatively quiet tornado season.

A reprise of "Hoosiers" it isn't, although this week's planned filming of a commercial on the Indiana University-Bloomington campus does feature two of the moviemakers who elevated Indiana hoops to the silver screen.

Northstar Lottery Group, which was hired in 2011 to manage the Illinois Lottery, will miss its revenue target by $180 million, according to the newspaper's analysis of the company's performance during the first 10 months of the fiscal year.

Many school buses across Indiana are on the road despite serious safety violations that could put thousands of students at risk, according to an investigation by an Indianapolis television station.

Officers say the body of 37-year-old Jamie Fleenor was recovered about 5:30 a.m. Sunday after The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department received a report that a female had fallen into a quarry Officers say Fleenor was reported to have been walking a trail at the quarry pit next to an 80-foot-high cliff when she lost her footing, slipped over the ... (more)

This is an important story on many levels, from today's subscription-only Bloomington Herald-Times . Here are some quotes from Jon Blau's lengthy story: When Perry Township Trustee Dan Combs took a recent call from an agent at the Bloomington parole district, he was faced with what he interpreted as an ultimatum.

Now that the 2013 legislative session has wrapped - including gubernatorial action on all the bills - it's time to review the term by the numbers.

But fast food - which is sold on dozens of street corners around town - isn't enough to draw people to the city's core.

Luxury Lawns Inc. , 5357 Old Barn Drive, 46268, chapter 7 reorganization, liabilities: $115,954; assets: $766. John 21:5 Inc.

Photographs by KEVIN SWANK / Courier & Press Miller Brothers, a farming business from Chandler, Ind., were working in a field along Indiana 66 west of Libbert Road on Thursday morning as area farmers work to get the fields fertilized and planted.

So a motorist in Indiana can pull up outside a package liquor store, plunk down a few bucks for a six-pack of cold beer, hop back into the car and speed off for home — or farther down the highway.

Lane restrictions on southbound Interstate 469 between the Maplecrest Road and U.S. 24 exits will continue until approximately May 24, the Indiana Department of Transportation announced.

A year after setting a record in attendance with 61,000, the Carmel Farmers Market cranks up the action again Saturday for its 14th year.

Preparations are underway for the 3rd Annual John Hartford Memorial Festival being held in the hills of southern Indiana at the Official Bean Blossom & Bill Monroe Music Park in beautiful Brown County, May 30-June 1. This is the third of what the festival's creator, John Hotze, and co-promoter, Dan Dillman, hope to see as an event to preserve the ... (more)

A woman who thought her family was being stalked by "demonic presences" killed her two children in a southern Indiana creek before she also drowned, police said Friday.