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Gov. Mike Pence says excitement is palpable as he talks to local communities about the Regional Cities Initiative. He signed a bill creating the program into law Thursday.

After weeks of investigation, a 243-page report is out over the controversy over under-inflated footballs the New England Patriots used in a key playoff game in January.

In a statement announcing he signed the bill, Gov. Mike Pence said wages should be set by the marketplace, not government bureaucracy. He says repealing the system puts taxpayers first. But opponents of the repeal say ending the common wage will create more economic disparity.

In the past few years almost $62 million has been invested in the large site that used to house a state run mental hospital.

The General Assembly created the grant program last year to give schools matching money to hire a school resource officer, conduct a threat assessment or purchase equipment to restrict access to the school or expedite the notification of first responders.

Schools could have a harder time earning A's beginning in 2016 if the Indiana State Board of Education approves new A-to-F grading rules Thursday.

The president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,Doug Boles, stopped by the 90.1 studios on Wednesday to talk with 90.1's Jill Ditmire about "glamping," the Rolling Stones, and this weekend's rain or shine running of the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis -- all taking place at 16th and Georgetown.

The new two-year state spending plan was approved by the General Assembly last week. Slightly more than half of the $31 billion budget goes toward K-12 education, with funding going up 2.3 percent each year.

Second-graders at Cumberland Elementary School in West Lafayette recently learned that Indiana doesn't have any state insect. That sobering news prompted them to write postcards to their legislators urging them to support giving state insect status to the illuminating insect.

Indiana tax collections surged in April after struggling through much of the last year. The state sits comfortably ahead of projections heading into the last two months of the fiscal calendar.