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More than 1,500 Indiana Special Olympics athletes will be competing this weekend in the Midwest Sports Fest in Indianapolis. - [Read more]

Pleasant weather thats helped draw large crowds to this years Indiana State Fair has put the fair on pace for a near-record attendance. - [Read more]

Nearly 400 of state governments longest-serving employees have been honored in a statehouse ceremony. - [Read more]

A state panel examining racial disparities in government services to children will hear from Hoosiers across the state Wednesday on recommended changes in the ways those services are delivered. - [Read more]

Indiana State Police are teaming up with Anheuser-Busch for a new billboard campaign. - [Read more]

A fast-growing vine thats left parts of Indiana beneath tangles of greenery is coming under assault as the state ramps up its efforts to kill the leafy invader. - [Read more]

Three lumber companies have bid a total of more than $360,000 for the right to harvest timber from the Morgan-Monroe State Forest in southern Indiana. - [Read more]

Indiana is suing the nation’s largest mortgage lender. - [Read more]

The state opens a new investment pool Friday in hopes of helping local governments squeeze out some extra drops of black ink. - [Read more]

Democratic presidential hopefuls are wooing Indiana voters with rallies, town hall meetings and TV commercials. But Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are also battling behind the scenes for the support of Hoosier "superdelegates." - [Read more]

Powerful thunderstorms laced with strong lightning pummeled Indiana, lashing several counties with torrential rains and damaging winds that ripped the roof off an apartment complex in Indianapolis, sending residents to a school for shelter. - [Read more]

With the new school year only weeks away, its time for freshmen heading to college to prepare themselves. - [Read more]

Purdue University researchers say their study shows the IndyGo buses running on a fuel containing ten percent biodiesel are likely to help reduce pollution - without compromising fuel economy. - [Read more]

On the final day of the NFL season, the Tennessee Titans need not monitor any games or watch any scoreboards, except one: their own. - [Read more]

The dispute over Indianas voter identification law that is headed to the Supreme Court next week is as much a partisan political drama as a legal tussle. - [Read more]

Summers here in all but name, and state parks are ready to welcome beachgoers. - [Read more]

Overall drug use by Indiana middle and high school students continued to decline this year, according to an annual survey. - [Read more]

Overall drug use by Indiana middle and high school students continued to decline this year, according to an annual survey. - [Read more]

Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi has filed charges against IMPD officer Anthony Smith for allegedly raping a 19- year-old woman while on duty last Friday morning. - [Read more]

Indiana Task Force One has new orders to stand by in Houston, Texas. - [Read more]