Stephanie Spivey protests in favor of health care reform during a rally outside the district office of Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Granger, in downtown South Bend, Ind., Thursday, March 18, 2010. Groups on both sides of the debate on the federal health care ...
Roll Vote: Senate OKs legislation giving businesses more incentives to hire the jobless The 68-29 roll call Wednesday by which the Senate passed legislation giving tax breaks to companies that hire unemployed workers. A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the ...
State prison population drops for 1st time since 1972; report suggests budget woes responsible Spurred by budget crises, California and Michigan together reduced their prison populations by more than 7,500 last year, contributing to what a new report says is the first ...
A new $1.3 million ad campaign will target 17 House Democrats this week urging them to support President Barack Obama's health care plan. The ads are funded by labor unions and other groups backing health care reform. At least seven of the ...
Ex-mayor of northern Indiana town, 2 aides ordered to pay $108 million in racketeering case A federal judge has ordered a former northern Indiana mayor and two ex-aides to pay $108 million in civil damages in an alleged sidewalks-for-votes scheme. U.S. District ...
Indiana man convicted of murdering 2, including Texas sheriff's deputy, executed An Indiana man whose cross-country crime spree with his girlfriend a decade ago ended in a gun battle with police in San Francisco was executed Thursday in Texas for killing a ...
The following products are being recalled because they could be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children and others with weakened immune systems: ___ McCormick & Co. Inc. of Sparks, Md., is expanding ...
327,000 looking for work in Indiana as state's jobless rate holds at 9.7 percent for January Indiana's unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent for January as some 327,000 people were looking for work. The state Department of Workforce Development statistics released Wednesday ...
Nikki Royer hlolds one of the ground beef patties from their freezer that they offer for sale through their farm in Clinton, Ind. Feb. 12, 2010. With fewer state inspectors, however, they might have less of their locally grown meat to sell ...
Balanced budget or jobs? Meatpackers say Ind. inspection cuts will hurt growing businesses Indiana's plan to lay off some meat inspectors to save money and reduce the time inspectors spend with small, independent processors has the industry and farmers fearing it could ...
