On Tuesday, IU Health Ball in Muncie was treating 104 COVID-19 positive patients, occupying approximately 40 percent of the hospital's beds.

A former Muncie police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to concealing and failing to report another officer's inappropriate use of force during a 2018 arrest, federal prosecutors said.

A former Muncie police officer is expected to plead guilty next month in connection with a federal investigation of excessive force allegations against other officers.

Federal prosecutors are objecting to an effort by four Muncie police officers to delay their trial on allegations they used excessive force during arrests or tried to cover up that misconduct.

Dennis Tyler was indicted in November 2019 on theft of government funds charges. Federal prosecutors alleged Tyler accepted the bribe from an unidentified company in exchange for the awarding of public works projects in Muncie.

After his election to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1978, Hurley Goodall helped create the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus and sponsored the legislation recognizing Jan. 20 as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rebuffed a central Indiana man's appeal of his life sentence for fatally shooting a Ball State University student in 1994 during an attempted robbery.

Police were justified in fatally shooting a man during a chase and gun battle in east central Indiana, the Delaware County prosecutor said Wednesday.

The charges stem from instances in 2018 where people the officers arrested suffered serious injuries.

The city of Muncie is buying the former GM factory property on the city's southside with hopes of turning it into a solar panel farm to generate power.