central Indiana

Police are investigating whether a central Indiana funeral director didn’t bury at least four bodies within a reasonable time as required by state law.

Persistent wet weather has left many farmers in Indiana and Illinois well behind in their crucial spring task of planting corn and soybeans, and some could take desperate measures to avoid financial ruin.

Farmers often pray for rain, but now they’re praying for it to stop, as it could keep them from planting their crops this year. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has the emotional story of area farmers praying for a miracle. 

On the campaign trail, Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg blasts Vice President Mike Pence’s cultural and religious conservatism. But as the mayor of Indiana’s fourth largest city, his tone toward the state’s Republican former governor was more muted. During the four years in which they overlapped in Indiana politics, Buttigieg, the South Bend mayor, had a cordial relationship with Pence....

They like to say they are “powered by poo”.

A central Indiana teacher says a school district forced him to resign following a disagreement over a policy that calls for teachers to address transgender students by their preferred gender name rather than their birth name.

A former Indiana man who was considered dead after abandoning his family nearly 25 years ago and fleeing to Florida has been ordered to pay his ex-wife nearly $2 million in back child support.

Firefighters in central Indiana had a strange problem on their hands this week: hashing out what to do with a raccoon its owner said was stoned. A woman awoke firefighters at Station 82 in Wayne Township, east of Indiana, in the middle of the night asking for treatment for her pet raccoon, according to a tweet from the township’s fire...

A pilot was found dead Sunday morning after crashing a plane in west central Indiana near downstate Danville.

Former first lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to visit Indianapolis for an event hosted by the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana.

Authorities say an accidental milk spill at a food processing business ended up turning a central Indiana creek white.

Authorities say a 5-year-old child was injured after falling out of a ride during a carnival in central Indiana.

The mother of a 2-year-old central Indiana girl who died after being bitten by a tick during a camping trip says lab tests confirmed she was infected with Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Some daring deer approached a group of hunters in central Indiana and one was so unafraid that it licked the barrel of a shotgun and allowed one of the men to stroke its neck.

A spokeswoman says a central Indiana couple won the $536 million Mega Millions jackpot drawn this month, but they’ve chosen to remain anonymous.

A dog that vanished from his Galveston yard last year has been returned home after turning up in a central Indiana city some 1,100 miles away.