Two Indiana regions will get $4.5 million after the state named them 2018 Stellar Communities Tuesday.

In July, Allen County prosecutors charged John D. Miller with murder and child molesting in connection with April Tinsley's death.

Senate President Pro Tem David Long of Fort Wayne announced in February that he was stepping down in November.

Judge Geoff Robison had been deciding cases involving state law infractions, such as speeding, and offering deferrals, in addition to processing city ordinance violations without a prosecuting attorney practicing in the court.

Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards filed formal charges Wednesday against a Grabill man accused in the 1988 killing of 8-year-old April Tinsley.

April Tinsley went missing while walking home from a friend's house on Good Friday 1988. Three days later, her body was discovered along a road 68 in Spencerville.

The new plant will process Walmart's Great Value milk distributed to stores in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky.

The Indiana Supreme Court will consider the validity of a state law allowing local governments to fine railroads when a stopped train blocks a street for more than 10 minutes.

So far this season the Indiana State Department of Health has confirmed 79 flu related deaths.

Guards had entered one particular cellblock of the county jail in Fort Wayne after being alerted that inmates there were smoking something.