Indiana

WATCH: Child's 'Ain't No Homos Gonna Make It To Heaven' Church Performance Gets Standing Ovation

Posted 05.30.2012

Disturbing footage of what appears to be a young child's choral performance is going viral in the blogosphere. The congregation in the church, whi...

Cops Probe Possible Connection Between Two Missing College Students

Posted 05.29.2012

Bloomington, Ind. police see similarities between the missing person cases of two college students. Indiana University student Lauren Spierer was l...

Dave Jamieson

Lugar: No Plans To Campaign For Mourdock

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.27.2012

Outgoing Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) said Sunday that he has no plans to campaign for Richard Mourdock, who handily beat him in a primary race earlier th...

Ridiculously Early Look at Electoral Math

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.14.2012

Chris Weigant

Since, as any fifth-grader will tell you, we don't have a national vote for president, tracking the race by means of national polling is almost completely irrelevant.

Trouble Down Home on the Farm: Implications of Lugar's Loss

Mark R. Kennedy | Posted 05.11.2012

Mark R. Kennedy

While I could vigorously dispute some of Lugar's actions while applauding others, I am passionately interested in breaking the gridlock to address our nation's most pressing challenges.

Teen Charged As Adult For Allegedly Stabbing 4-Year-Old Cousin To Death

AP | Posted 05.09.2012

INDIANAPOLIS -- A 14-year-old Indianapolis girl has been charged as an adult in the fatal stabbing of her 4-year-old cousin. Brienne Delaney, spokesw...

Indiana Senate Race: What Do the Results Mean?

J.B. Poersch | Posted 05.09.2012

J.B. Poersch

The Tea Party cost Republicans Senate seats in 2010, and they're poised to provide Democrats another gift in 2012: Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock.

Fanatical GOP Could Cause Constitutional Crisis

New York Magazine | Posted 05.09.2012

The defeat of Richard Lugar in the Indiana Republican Senate primary is the kind of event that would have been shocking just a half-dozen years ago, a...

Why Lugar Lost

Mark Meissner | Posted 05.08.2012

Mark Meissner

Tuesday marked the end of the distinguished career of Indiana's longest-serving U.S. senator ever, Richard Lugar. This shocking turn of events was unthinkable for almost all of Lugar's 36-year career in the U.S. Senate. So what happened?

Lugar and Dewhurst Test the Power of the Tea Party

Chris Ladd | Posted 05.07.2012

Chris Ladd

The Tea Party's appeal may be waning nationally, but in the Republican heartland they remain a potent force. The Texas and Indiana Senate races are a fine test of the Tea Party's ability to drive the GOP farther and farther out of the national mainstream.

Super PACs outspend favorite candidate in Indiana Senate race

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012

The Center for Public Integrity

By Michael Beckel and John DunbariWatch NewsSuper PACs and other outside groups are on track to spend more on tea party favorite Richard Mourdock in...

Lugar and the Tea Party

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.07.2012

Jeff Danziger

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Poll: Dick Lugar In Deep Trouble

The Huffington Post | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.04.2012

Embattled Indiana Republican Sen. Dick Lugar has fallen behind his Tea Party challenger in a new poll that finds the veteran legislator in danger of l...

Senate Race Attracting Highest Outside Spending In The Country

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 05.03.2012

Indiana's Senate race has attracted about $4 million in outside spending, the highest of any congressional race this year, according to the Indianapol...

12-Year-Old Boy Named Honorary Marine Before Death

Posted 05.02.2012

Throughout his 12 years, Cody Green battled leukemia like the bravest of warriors. For that, he was named an honorary Marine just before he died. ...

GOP Senator In Trouble Ahead Of Primary Battle

Roll Call | Posted 05.01.2012

In the age of modern campaigns, Sen. Dick Lugar’s political obituary could have been avoided. A year ago, the Republican lawmaker was in a positi...

Defense To Cyberbullying: 'We Used Emoticons'

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.27.2012

INDIANAPOLIS -- Even if three Indiana girls were just kidding around and used emoticons and LOLs when they discussed killing classmates on Facebook, t...

Airline Passenger Complains To Police About Attendant Waking Him

The Indianapolis Star | Posted 04.24.2012

A 37-year-old Arizona man filed a police complaint against a flight attendant who tapped him on the knee with a magazine to wake him up....

Man Stole From Woman At Funeral, Stuffed Items In Underwear: Cops

Posted 04.18.2012

An Indiana man was caught red-handed allegedly stealing a woman's purse at a funeral and then stuffing its contents into his underwear. The Herald ...

Mitt Puts Foot in Mouth Again

Dominic Carter | Posted 04.17.2012

Dominic Carter

After all it's Mitt Romney. One step forward, two steps backwards.

'Sextortionist' Blackmailed Children Into Sending Explicit Photos Online, Feds Say

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 04.09.2012

An Indiana man facing child "sextortion" charges boasted to one of his 14-year-old victims that he wouldn't be caught, federal authorities announced t...

Lugar, Mourdock Face Off On Gas Prices, 'Mickey Mouse Attacks'

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 04.03.2012

Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and his GOP challenger, Indiana state treasurer Richard Mourdock, each released new attack ads Monday, with Lugar accusing hi...

Personhood Measures in Disguise

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 04.03.2012

Lynn M. Paltrow

While people in Mississippi were considering Proposition 26 and deciding whether fertilized eggs and embryos would be treated as entirely separate legal persons, a prosecutor and courts were addressing the same question behind the scenes, where voters have no role or voice.

School Resumes For All In Tornado-Hit Indiana Town

AP | Posted 04.02.2012

SCOTTSBURG, Ind. — A police escort on Monday guided school buses taking some 500 students to the temporary home of their tornado-devastated sout...

One and Done (for Now) After Reading Certain Novelists

Dave Astor | Posted 05.28.2012

Dave Astor

Of course, not reading more of an author is a no-brainer when you thoroughly dislike the first novel you try by him or her. But things get trickier when you have some positive feelings about a book, as I did with The Magnificent Ambersons.