Indiana
C. Ind. county sued by arrested Occupy protesters
Two Occupy protesters are suing sheriff's officers in a central Indiana county who they say shoved one of them roughly into a wall and arrested them when they entered the county courthouse. The two Occupy Kokomo demonstrators were arrested in January 2012 after the Howard County sheriff said they violated ...
2 plead guilty to wire theft after Joplin tornado
Two men admit they stole copper wire from utility poles while the city of Joplin recovered from a devastating tornado in May 2011. Forty-five-year-old Timothy M. Silveria of Joplin and 32-year-old Nycoa K. Kracht of Laurel, Ind., pleaded guilty Monday to felony counts of theft from a public utility. They ...
Ind. woman wounded in shooting had admitted fraud
Police in northern Indiana are investigating whether a shooting that wounded a woman in her home is related to her pleading guilty to taking part in a scheme to file bogus tax returns for $3.5 million in fraudulent refunds. South Bend police Capt. Phil Trent said Tuesday investigators are trying ...
Expert: Summer gas costs likely lower than 2012
A Purdue University economist says he expects this summer's gasoline prices to be lower than last year. Energy economics specialist Wally Tyner projects that prices in the Midwest will be between $3.50 and $3.90 a gallon, with prices in the South and Southeast between $3.15 and $3.55. He doesn't expect ...
Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51
A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and ...
Officer shoots man outside NW Ind. health clinic
A northwestern Indiana police officer has shot a man while issuing a citation for an illegally parked semitrailer. The Times of Munster reports (http://bit.ly/13GoHDM ) the shooting occurred Monday afternoon outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Merrillville, about 5 miles south of Gary. Both the officer and the man were ...
Te'o off-limits to media but not Maxim party
Manti Te'o isn't hiding out. He's just not talking to the media. After being spotted attending a party thrown by the magazine Maxim last week in Hollywood, Te'o was back in San Diego at the Chargers second open session of organized team activities on Monday. For the second straight week, ...
Charged Ind. surveyor denies corruption charges
A longtime northwestern Indiana politician indicted on eight federal corruption counts pleaded not guilty Monday and proclaimed his innocence. Lake County Surveyor George Van Til entered the pleas to six felony counts of wire fraud and two counts of obstruction of justice in U.S. District Court in Hammond. The Times ...
Bosh aiming to be impactful against Pacers
This is the matchup Chris Bosh wanted in the Eastern Conference finals. No, he might not necessarily enjoy going head-to-head with 7-foot-2 Roy Hibbert when the Miami Heat open this series against the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night, especially since the Pacers' biggest man is arguably enjoying the best postseason ...
Ex-Indianapolis councilman gets 2 years for fraud
A former Indianapolis City-County Council member and minister was sentenced to more than two years in prison Monday for helping squander a doctor's $1.7 million charitable donation in just over a month on luxury vehicles, jewelry and expensive vacations. Paul Bateman, 58, insisted that his intentions were pure when he ...
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