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.

The storms last week and weekend left some Hoosiers without power for days. Duke Energy and AES Indiana said they did their best to restore power after an unprecedented amount of damage. But a consumer advocacy group said the utilities could have done more to prepare and wants the state to investigate the outages.

A man who confessed to raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that became a national flashpoint on abortion rights because the girl had to travel out of state to end the pregnancy.

The Indiana Department of Local Government Finance has a new leader after the governor appointed Daniel Shackle to become its commissioner.