State and Local News

A new non-profit group is trying to help families that care for foster children in Howard County.  The group known as “Foster Faith” needs donations. Foster Faith provides clothes, books, ...Read more

Western Middle School in Russiaville and Tipton Elementary have been named among the ten winners of grants from the Indiana Commission On Higher Education. Western Middle School and Tipton ...Read more

The Howard County Election Board will sort through several challenges to candidacies today, trying to figure out if any are valid or not. Among the challenges that have been filed in connection ...Read more

The Yorktown Clerk-Treasurer can keep her job, despite not balancing the town’s books for four straight years. The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Beth Neff could be kicked out of office under ...Read more

A Republican Mayoral candidate in Muncie has been removed from the ballot by the County Election Board.  Tony Cox had not voted in a G-O-P Primary before, so by law he could not run as a ...Read more

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Marion woman who is a suspect in a local triple-homicide case after she skipped a court hearing Monday. Police are now searching for Brittany Drake, who ...Read more

A national report found Kokomo is one of the top three most susceptible metro areas in the nation to potential automation. The Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program found more than a third of ...Read more

A gun rights bill is in limbo after a House deadline passed Monday without a vote. Indiana law bans guns on school property. That ends up banning guns in churches which have schools attached. ...Read more

A Muncie Central High School and Ball State University graduate was part of the team that won the Academy Award for Production and Set Design on the movie “Black Panther.” Marlie Eckelman ...Read more

Grissom Air Reserve Base has hired its first-ever historian to compile the history of the military installation in Miami County. Paul Marcello, a museum curator and former Air Force crew chief, ...Read more