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After a 17-year career inside schools, Mariama Carson decided she wanted to build her own school from the ground up. Now, Carson is asking Mayor Greg Ballard's charter school office to grant her a charter for Global Prep Academy -- a school that would teacher both English and Spanish to low-income students.

Under the previous A-F model, grades were based mainly on student performance on state standardized test. The new system dramatically changes that, calculating school grades based on equal parts test performance and student growth on those tests.

Indianapolis Democratic mayoral candidate Joe Hogsett says he favors term limits for the office, as part of his ethics agenda. Even if the council doesn't go along, Hogsett says he would still step down after eight years.

The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a denomination with its headquarters in Indianapolis, has joined the chorus of voices urging Gov. Mike Pence not to sign Senate Bill 101, the so-called "Religious Freedom Restoration Act," which passed the House earlier this week.

The line, which has faced no fewer than four threats of closure in just the past six months, was set to cease operation at the end of this month if a deal wasn't reached.

Iowa Pacific Holdings Inc. President Ed Ellis says that he wants to increase round trips between Indianapolis and Chicago from four a week to 12 per day. He says the company also plans to decrease travel times so passengers can get from one city to the other in less than two hours.

Hundreds of Eskenazi Health staff, plus volunteers and military personnel, successfully moved patients from the old Wishard Hospital to the new Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital on Saturday.

The Indianapolis Public Library's Summer Reading Program kicks off Monday, June 5 and runs through July 29. This year's theme is Read it & Eat.

Kor and her twin sister were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where they were used as subjects for medical experiments by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

The tone of the race to challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly has been marked by vitriol between U.S. Rep. Luke Messer and U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita.