State and Local News

Wings Etc. Grill & Pub has officially opened in Marion. The restaurant opened Tuesday at 11 a.m. and is located at 1508 S. Western Ave. “We felt that Marion could benefit from a ...Read more

The death of 38-year-old Odale Cobb has been ruled accidental following an autopsy, according to Coroner Stephen Dorsey. Cobb was pronounced dead Monday morning at around 5 a.m. at Lutheran ...Read more

In the face of hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts Of America filed for Chapter 11 protection on Tuesday. According to federal court papers, the 110-year-old youth organization has ...Read more

The Marion man who suffered blunt force trauma to the head in a suspected battery on Saturday has died, according to the Chronicle-Tribune. It was confirmed Monday evening that 38-year-old Odale ...Read more

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has just committed $10 billion to fight climate change. Bezos plans to use the money to create the Bezos Earth Fund that will help fight what he calls “the ...Read more

If you’ve spent any time at the gas pump over the last week or two, you’ve probably noticed that gas prices have increased. A lot of that has to do with OPEC and the coronavirus, ...Read more

On Election Day, Indiana and Kentucky are the first states to close their polls, at 6 p.m — and it will stay that way this year. A Senate committee rejected Democrats’ proposal to add ...Read more

The Muncie man charged with murder for the hit-and-run that killed a pedestrian in October wants his car back. Aaron Harmon, and the co-owner, Terri Pritz, have filed a lawsuit against Northwest ...Read more

While investigating this month’s homicide and kidnapping case, police in Kokomo have made arrests in a separate kidnapping and torture case. On Feb. 3, LaShay Young-Beard was found shot to ...Read more

In the mid-1980s, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Black Women in the Middle West (BWMW) Project collected manuscripts and photographic records of black women ...Read more