Samantha Horton is a business and economy reporter for IPB News based at WFYI in Indianapolis. After graduating from Evansville University with bachelor degrees in international studies, political science and communication, Samantha worked for three years at a WNIN in Evansville. In her leisure time, Samantha enjoys running, trying different craft beers, and playing board games with her family.
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An Indiana Department of Natural Resources officer wants taxpayers to foot the bill after he was sued by a woman who was falsely charged with a crime because of a lie the officer told.
Until this month, neither of Indiana’s two largest colleges had a plan for going carbon neutral. Indiana University announced a new Climate Action Plan Sept. 11, and Purdue University is the holdout.
The case was the first known application of recent legislation further restricting noncompete agreements between physicians and their employers — but even as the court declared the doctor’s arguments “convincing,” it declined to apply that law.
Within the past week, a federal judge in Texas declared that DACA - the program that offers deportation relief and work permits to immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, was itself illegal. It's a ruling that will be appealed. But the people who benefited from the program - known as DREAMers - are also the focus of a play that's now on the stage of the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. The name of the play itself is a phrase used as a lightning rod by critics of immigrants. The play is called Sanctuary City, and the main characters of the play are portrayed by actors with connections to Indiana – Seni Tekle and Diego Sanchez-Galvan. They spoke with Ray Steele on Morning Edition.
Two people were shot by Indianapolis SWAT officers downtown Friday.
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