WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.) today voted for legislation designed to improve America’s national security by tightening up the screening of refugees from Iraq and Syria. The bill would suspend the admission of Iraqi and Syrian refugees into the United States until the nation’s top security officials can …

At Tuesday night’s Danville Town Council meeting, the room was packed to the legal limit with attendees, according the town’s Fire Chief. A decision was made by the council to demote Police Chief William Wright to sergeant and Assistant Police Chief. It was a four to one vote as officials at …

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly helped pass bipartisan legislation today in the Senate Agriculture Committee that would reauthorize programs to provide nutritious meals and snacks to food insecure children – children who sometimes do not know where their next meal will come from – and offer more flexibility …

STATEHOUSE (Jan. 20, 2016) —State Sen. R. Michael Young’s (R–Indianapolis) bill to combat meth use in Indiana recently passed the Senate Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law.  Senate Bill 161 is aimed at preventing individuals convicted of meth and drug felonies from purchasing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, two ingredients commonly used …

DANVILLE, IN (Jan. 20, 2016) – Only a few days remain to honor deserving Hendricks County residents as Indiana Bicentennial Torchbearers. Electronic nominations must be submitted by Jan. 31 or postmarked by that date if submitted by mail. A handful of deserving honorees representing Hendricks County will carry the Indiana …

INDIANAPOLIS – Nearly five years after Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program, which assists low-and-middle income students and students with special needs with vouchers to attend the school of their choice, was enacted, an overwhelming majority of Hoosiers support the program, yet at the same time, Hoosiers are generally unhappy with the …

INDIANAPOLIS – Detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) are investigating a shooting that has killed one man and injured another. Just before 1:00 a.m., IMPD officers were dispatched to the 2900 block of Oxford Lane on the report a person had been shot.  When officers arrived, inside an …

Greenfield, IN –Investigators from the Indiana State Police, in conjunction with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, arrested a Greenfield man on the preliminary charge of Child Solicitation. An investigation that began in Oregon in November, 2015 led police to 22 year old …

INDIANAPOLIS (Jan.  19, 2016) – Today, the Indiana Department of Revenue and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) opened the 2016 individual income tax filing season and began processing individual income tax returns. Tax season will close April 18, 2016. Electronic Filing The department encourages taxpayers to electronically file their tax …

With the vote of its directors at their January meeting, Hendricks Regional Health Foundation elected board members and an officer. Donna Petraits was elected to fulfill a two-year term expiring December 2017. Petraits, from Brownsburg, is the Executive Director of the Indiana Chapter of the National School Public Relations Association. …