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Until August, 24-year-old Aza Betwata was in Holland, enjoying beef and cabbage and studying to be a social worker. Now, he's among the hundreds of exiled Kurds who have returned and taken up arms.

The 10 candidates vying for three seats on the Indianapolis Public Schools board will participate in the Indianapolis Public Library's Conversation About Education series Thursday evening.

When a new ethnic group moves into a more racially homogeneous neighborhood, tensions tend to arise. While well-intentioned people want to reach across that divide, they don't always know how. Meridian-Kessler's Zone 2 is a predominantly African-American area that's seeing more white families move in. Can residents come together despite the racial history of the neighborhood and of Indianapolis?

The Ruth Lilly Health Education Center will move to Marian University where it will still work to educate Hoosier kids in an innovative way.

Around 18 percent of Indiana high school students smoke. A new effort urges families to shop at tobacco free retailers.

PEDv has been found in dozens of hog farms in Indiana and has killed an estimated 8 million pigs nationally since last year - causing a spike in pork prices.

Gov. Mike Pence said Tuesday he still won't apply for up to $80 million in preschool funding - despite an extended federal deadline and calls from several education officials.

Indiana highway commissioner Karl Browning says the agency is uncertain how to finance the extension's last section from Martinsville to Indianapolis.

Most retailers are feeling optimistic as analysts forecast rising sales over this long shopping season. They are hoping Halloween will give them a good bounce into the peak spending time of the year.

INDOT says it is looking to hire about 25 seasonal employees for its winter maintenance operations in the Indianapolis Subdistrict, which covers Marion County. Those who get the jobs will work as full-time seasonal maintenance crew and will operate INDOT's plow trucks.