Indiana

A teacher from South Windsor was killed in a motorcycle crash in Indiana on Thursday. Alan Beck, 49, of Woodstock, was riding his motorcycle along a road in Wabash County, Indiana, just before 10 a.m. when a driver in a pickup truck turned into his path, according to police. Beck’s motorcycle collided with the passenger side of the pickup and…

A private funeral for Joe Jackson was held at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California, Monday, E! News reported. Family members, including Janet Jackson, were spotted at the funeral.

Reopening the economy is preferable to preventing a new wave of coronavirus deaths, an Indiana congressman said Tuesday.

 A man who claims he has killed more than 90 women across the country confessed to strangling two women in Indiana on the same night in October 1980, authorities said Friday. Samuel Little, 79, confessed to killing Valeria Boyd, 18, and Mary Ann Porter, 31, both of Fort Wayne, the Allen County Sheriff’s Department said. Detectives interviewed Little at the Wise…

The Baypath Humane Society in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, takes a specialized approach to helping each pet find the right home. Volunteer Kim Melanson says it’s not about a pet’s physical appearance, it’s about their personality and the shelter works hard to match each dog or cat with the right family.

Redskins rookie Wes Martin is committed to dog rescue as much if not more than football.

An Indiana professor who called the police after a student declined to change seats during class last month has been suspended, the school said.

More than 2,000 fetal remains found last year in Illinois were laid to rest at an Indiana cemetery Wednesday, NBC News reported.

More than 2,400 sets of fetal remains found last year at the suburban Chicago home of one of the Midwest’s most prolific abortion doctors were buried Wednesday in Indiana, a state with some of the nation’s toughest anti-abortion laws.

A 4-year-old Indiana boy died after he was accidentally shot with his father’s gun while the two were play-wrestling, NBC News reports. The child, Tripp Shaw, and his father were playing on a bed inside a home near Bloomington, Indiana, on Sunday night, NBC affiliate WTHR in Indianapolis reported. The handgun, which had been concealed on the small of the father’s back,...

A 102-year-old man who is Indiana’s oldest state employee is retiring after nearly six decades on the job, saying that “your body tells you when it’s time to go.” Bob Vollmer plans to report to work for the last time Feb. 6 as a surveyor for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The southern Indiana man, whose mother lived...

Indiana’s Republican leaders oppose taking steps toward following Michigan and Illinois in legalizing marijuana use during the upcoming legislative session. Indiana lawmakers have not seriously debated steps such as allowing medical marijuana or removing the threat of jail time for possessing small amounts of the drug, even as recreational marijuana sales have won approval in Michigan and Illinois and medical...

As he labors to win over black voters whose support is vital to his Democratic presidential bid, Pete Buttigieg found a receptive host on Sunday in a civil rights activist who has sought to continue the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s push for a racially diverse national campaign against poverty. After attending services at the Rev. William Barber’s Greenleaf Christian...

Joe Sestak ended his long-shot campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination Sunday, telling supporters that he couldn’t raise money because he was unable to break through in the media. Sestak, a former U.S. representative from Pennsylvania who turns 68 next week, qualified for none of the Democratic debates and failed to register even 1 percent in most opinion polls, NBC...

More than 1,000 surgical patients are suing a northern Indiana hospital after being notified that a sterilization failure could have exposed them to deadly infections.

From tropical fruit in Hawaii to fresh seafood in New England, and barbecue in the South to the hearty dishes of the Midwest, the flavors of the United States know no bounds — and that’s especially apparent on Thanksgiving.

A 17-year-old boy was charged with murder Monday in connection with the disappearance of two teens from northwest Indiana, prosecutors said.

Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, topped the latest poll of likely Democratic voters in Iowa, the first state in the nation to weigh in, via caucus, on who should be the blue party’s choice for president, NBC News reports. The moderate mayor supported by 25% of respondents was followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts with 16%; former...

Dean Foods, America’s biggest milk processor, has filed for bankruptcy amid a steep, decades-long drop-off in US milk consumption blamed on soda, juices and, more recently, nondairy substitutes.

A Purdue University engineering student said he denied the purchase of over-the-counter cold medicine by a CVS employee who refused to accept his Puerto Rican driver’s license and U.S. passport as valid identification and questioned his immigration status. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth. José Guzmán Payano, a junior at Purdue, went...