A new group aimed at encouraging independent candidates in Indiana will launch a statewide ad campaign.

Jennifer-Ruth Green, who recently resigned as Indiana’s public safety secretary, is the subject of a pending state ethics investigation.

Senate Republicans met behind closed doors on Wednesday at the Indiana Statehouse roughly three weeks after their House counterparts to discuss redistricting, though none shared specifics with media following the caucus.

State and federal officials say a suspect was taken into custody on Thursday night in connection with Wednesday's fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus.

Many loved ones of the nearly 3,000 people killed will join dignitaries and politicians at commemorations Thursday in New York, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Utah officials say the suspected shooter was dressed in "all dark clothing" and fired from a long distance, potentially on a roof.

The Indiana Department of Transportation wants the federal government to waive its requirements on federally assisted contracts for women and minority-owned businesses.

Indiana wants to make it illegal for anyone to tell a pregnant minor about legal abortion services in other states without parental consent. And the state asked a federal appeals court to allow it to do that in a hearing Tuesday.

It appears increasingly likely that Indiana Republican lawmakers will redraw the state's congressional districts to help Republicans pick up more seats. Voter advocacy groups delivered petitions from about 9,000 Hoosiers to the Statehouse Tuesday, opposing that effort.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith on Friday landed himself in hot water with supporters over social media posts about Haitian asylum-seekers. Beckwith, a pastor at Life Church’s Noblesville campus, met with Haitian pastors on Thursday to talk about “faith and family.”