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GOP’s Santorum, Wallace set for Indiana ballot
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum and Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Wallace are set to make it on the state ballot unless they are challenged. The two men filed to run statewide in Indiana’s May Republican primary but have fallen short of the …
Daniels would consider post under GOP prez
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who decided last year against a presidential run, says he would consider serving in the Cabinet of a new Republican president but believes it’s “very improbable” the eventual nominee would tap him as a running mate. Daniels …
Obama: Birth control policy meets everyone’s needs
President Barack Obama declared Friday he’s found a solution to a birth-control uproar that will protect religious liberty but also ensure that women have access to free contraception, as he rushed to defuse an election-year issue that threatened to overtake his administration. Capping weeks of …
Purdue warns students: Show proof of measles shots
WEST LAFAYETTE (AP) — Purdue University is warning nearly 1,000 students that unless they show proof of measles immunization by March 12, the school will place holds on their academic records and bar them from registering for classes. Purdue Student Health Center Director James Westman …
Bloomington hires firm to plan technology park
BLOOMINGTON (AP) — Development officials have hired a company to plan a downtown Bloomington technology park they hope can eventually spawn a bustling high-tech business hub in the southern Indiana city. Columbus, Ohio-based landscape architecture firm MSI/KKG and its partners will craft a master plan …
Many Indiana House Democrats calling it quits
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than quarter of the Democratic members of the Indiana House aren’t trying for re-election this year, further boosting the chances of Republicans strengthening their hold on the chamber. Most of the 12 House Democrats had announced their decisions before Friday’s filing …
Obama: Birth control policy meets everyone’s needs
Retreating in the face of a political uproar, President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after all, The Associated Press has learned.
Disaster foreshadowed by emergency exercise
INDIANAPOLIS — High winds. Lightning. Hail. A severe thunderstorm warning. A huge crowd waits for country duo Sugarland to take the stage. That exact scenario ahead of last summer’s deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair was eerily foreshadowed just a month earlier during …
Euro ministers cold on deal to bail out Greece
BRUSSELS — Just hours after Greece gave in to painful new job and spending cuts, European ministers declared Thursday that Athens didn’t go far enough and demanded more within a week in exchange for a $170 billion bailout to stave off bankruptcy. The ministers gave …
Pro-labor Republicans recruit for House races
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Pro-labor Republicans are targeting several GOP lawmakers who backed divisive right-to-work legislation that made Indiana the 23rd state to ban unions from collecting mandatory representation fees. The pro-labor Lunchpail Republicans have recruited eight candidates to run in the May Republican primary. A …
Man found dead at state park apparently killed self
MONGO (AP) — Authorities say a man found dead at a state wildlife area apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A state conservation officer found the man’s body Wednesday in a wooded area at the Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area about 40 miles …
US Marines with Nazi symbol in Afghanistan ‘not acceptable’
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS — a special unit that …
Feds require consumer-friendly health plan briefs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t have the slightest clue what your health insurance covers? The Obama administration says that’s going to change. Officials announced Thursday that starting later this year private health plans will have to provide consumers with a user-friendly summary of what’s covered, along …
Advocates: No weakening of smoking ban legislation
INDIANAPOLIS — Anti-smoking advocates aren’t happy about an 18-month exemption for bars that’s included in a bill for a statewide smoking ban, and said Thursday they are aiming to prevent the proposal from being watered down any more as it moves through the Indiana Legislature. …
GOP vows to reverse Obama on birth control
WASHINGTON — Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama’s new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide contraceptive coverage for their employees as an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country.” The White House pushed back …
Women at war: Pentagon is easing its job limits
WASHINGTON (AP) — New orders from the Pentagon: The military on Thursday formally opened thousands of jobs to women in units that are closer to the front lines than ever before, reflecting what’s already been going on as female American soldiers fight and die next …
