Former Vice President Mike Pence is leaning in on his anti-abortion stance as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination.

A worker died on a southern Indiana construction site last week after being crushed. The incident may reflect some the risks construction workers face as the industry’s nationwide rate of work fatalities remains stubbornly high.

The departure of several long-time lawmakers and a prior Republican focus on "kitchen table" issues has set the scene for a backlash in Indiana on social conservative issues. Political scientists say that backlash made the Statehouse an apt environment for out-of-state groups to push anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.

Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, whose law license was temporarily suspended while in office when the state Supreme Court ruled he criminally battered four women, is running for governor.

Indiana lawmakers filed nearly two dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills during this years legislative session, up from a peak of seven over previous years. The explosion in bills targeting LGBTQ+ Hoosiers is part of a national trend, in which state legislatures across the country proposed more than 500 bills in 2023.

Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar has been stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida. Nassar is serving decades in prison after admitting sexually assaulting athletes at Michigan State University and at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, including Olympic medalists.

Federal prosecutors say a former Indiana congressman should pay nearly $1.4 million to cover the legal bills of companies forced to incur expenses when he was prosecuted on insider trading charges. But his lawyer said Thursday it’s an exorbitant amount to demand from a man already suffering financially.

The city of Richmond has said the original owner of a former plastics recycling business is responsible for the huge industrial fire there in April. But now the owner is blaming the city which partially owns the property.

A second Democratic candidate has thrown their hat into the ring for Indianas open 2024 U.S. Senate race.

A special prosecutor has been assigned to review allegations that Floyd County Council President Denise Konkle was unlawfully elected to office while living outside her district in Harrison County.