INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The state of Indiana is asking an appeals court to block federal expanded unemployment payments from resuming in Indiana. The Attorney General’s Office filed a motion late Monday night, asking the Court of Appeals to stay a Marion County judge’s order. That order, issued last week, requires Indiana to immediately rejoin the […]
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb filed notice that he plans to appeal a ruling forcing Indiana to resume federal pandemic unemployment benefits. That ruling came down Friday and means Indiana will have to keep offering the extra $300 per week. Read the judge’s findings Marion Superior Court Judge John Hanley’s ruling temporarily reinstated […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Pacers Sports and Entertainment vice chairman Jim Morris is this year’s recipient of Indiana’s highest honor, the Sachem Award. Morris was Indianapolis Mayor Dick Lugar’s chief of staff and was instrumental in creating IUPUI, the Indiana Sports Corporation, and the Indianapolis Children’s Choir. He ran the Indianapolis Water Company before President George W. […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – The Indiana Supreme Court is deciding whether the state’s “revenge porn” law is constitutional. Prosecutors charged Trine University student Conner Katz last year with secretly filming his girlfriend and sharing the video. A Steuben County magistrate threw out the case in October, arguing the 2019 law violates the First Amendment. Deputy Attorney General […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Indiana is pouring $110 million in federal pandemic relief into schools. Secretary of Education Katie Jenner says preliminary data indicate ILEARN reading and math scores coming out next month will show a steep drop in the passing rate. She says the ability to read well by the end of third grade is one […]
STATEWIDE–Indiana’s absentee voting law, which restricts absentee voting to only people over 65, will not go to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court justices decided to send the challenge back down to a lower federal court. Plaintiffs in the case argued that Indiana’s age restriction for absentee voters infringes upon their constitutional right to […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – A judge should decide in a couple of weeks whether Governor Holcomb can sue over a law letting the General Assembly call itself into session. Holcomb contends the law is unconstitutional, but that debate can’t begin unless Marion Superior Judge P.J. Dietrick rules Holcomb can sue without permission from Attorney General Todd Rokita. […]
No Democrat should be able to speak to a tv camera or into a microphone without being asked their stance on Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar. Citizens and media should be putting elected officials on the record: Do you really stand silent for such bigotry? Are you really looking the other way on such hate? […]
INDIANAPOLIS – A Marion man whose Land Rover was seized after his arrest for selling $400 in heroin will get to keep the vehicle, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court’s 4-1 ruling in favor of Tyson Timbs comes following a legal fight that began when the vehicle was seized after his arrest in 2013. […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) — Prosecutors are trying to reinstate a teenager’s murder conviction in the death of a two-year-old boy. Tyre Bradbury didn’t fire a shot, but prosecutors say he acquired the guns for a 2014 gang confrontation in a South Bend park. A stray bullet killed two-year-old John Swoveland Junior as he was playing in his […]
