More than 6,600 Afghan refugees who began arriving at the Indiana National Guard’s Camp Atterbury training post nearly six weeks ago are awaiting resettlement.

Indiana National Guard members are assisting three hospitals as increased COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths stretch the capacity of overworked and understaffed hospitals even thinner.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is denying rumors circulating about happenings at Camp Atterbury.

Indiana is preparing to receive 5,000 Afghan evacuees at Camp Atterbury in the coming weeks, with the first 1,000 set to arrive by this weekend.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement this week with a central Indiana furniture store for failing to rehire a soldier upon return from duty.

Gov. Eric Holcomb authorized Indiana soldiers going to Washington on Jan. 13 as more than 25,000 troops from across the country were dispatched there following the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Six hundred twenty-five Indiana National Guard soldiers are going to Washington from Saturday until two days after Joe Bidens Jan. 20 inauguration. Up to 15,000 Guard troops are expected to be on duty in coming days in Washington.

The FBI is warning of armed protests in all 50 state capitols in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

The Indiana National Guard deployed members to the state's 13 regional charitable food distribution sites around the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. But their temporary, six-month deployment ends Sept. 30.

Soldiers from the Indiana Army National Guard began working at the Miami Correctional Facility during the second week of August, said prison spokesman James Frye.