southern Indiana

Federal authorities say eight missing children were rescued in a five-day rescue operation in the Indianapolis area.

Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced trip back to Indiana to go to the site of Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood home. The former Indiana governor flew into Evansville Regional Airport at midmorning Monday and then traveled by motorcade to the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in nearby Spencer County. The memorial, which is operated by the National Parks Service, announced...

Teachers at an Indiana school reportedly sent a letter home to parents asking that students no longer date.

A judge has declared a mistrial for a southern Indiana man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and eating parts of her body.

An 11-year-old Girl Scout was fatally injured when a tree suddenly fell on her and three others as they walked along a gravel road at a southern Indiana campground, authorities said.

An 11-year-old Girl Scout was fatally injured when a tree suddenly fell on her and three others as they walked along a gravel road at a southern Indiana campground, authorities said.

Two southern Indiana judges attending a judicial conference in Indiana’s capital were shot and wounded in downtown Indianapolis early Wednesday by someone who had argued with them in a restaurant’s parking lot, police said.

Workers installing sewer lines across a southern Indiana farm unearthed the fossilized bones of a mastodon that likely stood about 9 feet tall.

“Multiple fatalities” were reported after a small plane headed for Chicago’s Midway Airport crashed in southern Indiana, officials said.

Abraham Lincoln’s death, the Great Chicago Fire and the deadliest tornado in American history top the list of Illinois’ most heartbreaking moments, according to voters in the Illinois Top 200 project.

The southern Indiana city where Papa John’s founder John Schnatter began his pizza business has removed his name from a historic gym after he resigned from the company’s board for using a racial slur.

A southern Indiana woman is pushing for a cemetery to repair her gravestone more than a year after she discovered it lists her as dead.

A southern Indiana elementary school teacher faces three dozen counts of child molestation that occurred over a three-year period, authorities said Monday.

A southern Indiana farmer who created a corn maze with trails outlining the face of “Star Wars” character Princess Leia says he planted it to honor the late actress Carrie Fisher.

At least three people have been killed after the car they were in was rammed from behind by a bus along a southern Indiana highway.

A customer’s act of kindness at a southern Indiana McDonald’s sparked a chain reaction of niceness in its drive-thru line.

A southern Indiana health campaign is enlisting black-owned barbershops in a push to bring free health screenings and information on common diseases to black men.

Authorities are warning Indiana residents who recently lost loved ones that burglars in several counties have been scouring obituaries and social media to target families for break-ins while they’re attending funerals.

A southern Indiana man accused of killing his former girlfriend and eating parts of her body in 2014 will undergo psychiatric evaluations, despite his insistence that he’s competent for trial.