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Indiana lawmakers have seized on high health care costs as a priority problem to tackle this legislative session, but rural hospitals with thin profit margins are worried — and want more help from the state.

The 2020 election might represent the best chance Indiana Democrats have had in two decades to win the race for attorney general. And if they do, one of the biggest factors will be a person whos not even a part of the general election campaign incumbent Attorney General Curtis Hill.

The Indiana Department of Education issued licenses to about 5,599 teachers in 2009-10, and in '13-14 that number sat closer to 4,500.

House Bill 1285 still includes a requirement that every Indiana school building has a staff member available to de-escalate behavior in situations where students may be secluded, restrained or put in timeout.

The deadly fungal disease white nose syndrome killed many of them and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the bat could become extinct.

Election security and the validity of election results themselves are at the forefront of Indianas race for secretary of state.

The governor announced Wednesday all schools across the state are closed to help combat the spread of COVID-19. And the leaders of Indianas two major political parties want all Hoosiers to be able to vote by mail in Mays primary.

Bills aiming to reduce Indiana's meth problem by requiring prescriptions for some cold medicines probably won't be considered in House or Senate committees this session, key lawmakers said.

Lifting the ban on Sunday sales signals the end of an era in Indiana. But, there's another decades-old alcohol law where the state is still a holdout: cold beer sales.

Indiana is one of five states without a hate crimes law. After a Carmel synagogue was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti this summer, the push to pass one was re-energized. But a hate crimes law may not help police or prosecutors.