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Judges consider tossing $60M Penn St. fund lawsuit
A panel of Pennsylvania judges will soon decide whether to side with the NCAA and throw out a lawsuit filed by a state senator and the state treasurer over the massive fine imposed on Penn State for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. The legal issue before Commonwealth Court ...
Ind. judge's links to project backers questioned
An Indiana Supreme Court justice has not said whether he intends to recuse himself from an upcoming case over a proposed $2.8 billion coal-gasification plant in which one of his friends is involved. Justice Mark Massa is a longtime friend of Mark Lubbers, who represents the developers of the planned ...
Holcomb, other top leaders leaving Ind. GOP helm
Indiana Republican Party Chairman Eric Holcomb leads a number of high-level departures from the state party half a year after the 2012 elections. Holcomb announced Wednesday he was leaving to take a job outside politics. Former Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman, Vice Chair Sandi Huddleston and Executive Director Justin Garrett also ...
Cleanup set to start at old W. Ind. industry site
A contractor is expected to start work next week on cleaning up a former industrial site in western Indiana that will include removing thousands of truckloads of contaminated soil. Project managers and local officials met Tuesday night with residents living near where Terre Haute Coke and Carbon operated from 1926 ...
Foes fight moving plans for 15-foot Mary statue
A church's plan for moving a 15-foot-tall marble Virgin Mary statue from its spot along a northwestern Indiana highway after nearly six decades has opponents threatening a court fight. St. John the Evangelist Catholic parish leaders want to move the marble statue from U.S. 41 in the Lake County town ...
Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck
Archaeologists say a wooden beam found embedded in the floor of Lake Michigan wasn't attached to a larger vessel, but that it could be a detached piece of wreckage from a ship that disappeared while exploring the Great Lakes in the 17th Century. The discovery of the more than 10-foot-long ...
IMS lights Pagoda in honor of Jason Leffler
Indianapolis Motor Speedway is honoring the late Jason Leffler with a tribute atop the iconic Pagoda scoring board. Leffler died last Wednesday in an accident at a dirt track in New Jersey. His funeral was Wednesday in North Carolina. IMS officials illuminated the scoreboard with the number "50," which was ...
IDOT proposes tolls for Illiana Expressway
Transportation officials in Illinois have proposed that the planned Illiana Expressway be a tollway. The SouthtownStar reports (http://bit.ly/11LOOEs) that the Illinois Department of Transportation unveiled a revised plan for the expressway on Tuesday during a public hearing in Peotone. The 47-mile route will go from Interstate 55 in Wilmington to ...
APNewsBreak: ACLU sues over Ind. gay youth plates
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, seeking the reinstatement of specialty auto license plates for a group that counsels gay and lesbian youth. The ACLU claims BMV Commissioner Scott Waddell violated due process by asserting himself as ...
Railroad, police team up for train safety plan
Mishawaka police are teaming up with the Norfolk Southern railroad's police department to warn residents of the physical and legal dangers of trespassing on train tracks or in rail yards. The South Bend Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1423SRd ) 844 trespassers were injured on railway property nationwide in 2012. More than half ...
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