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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana needs state taxes to discourage the use of electronic cigarettes as vaping becomes more popular and is increasingly blamed in illnesses and deaths, the state’s main physicians organization and other health…

CHICAGO (CBS) — More fetal remains have been discovered in Illinois that are believed to be associated with a now-deceased abortion doctor in Indiana. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s office announced that the latest remains were…

The family of a man fatally shot by police in Gary, Indiana, gathered on the steps of Gary’s City Hall Tuesday demanding to know why the 25-year-old was shot to death by an officer while he sat in a car in front of his home.“All Rashad…

CHICAGO (CBS) — The family of 25-year-old Rashad Cunningham has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Gary, Indiana, and Police Officer Isaiah Price, accusing the officer of fatally shooting Cunningham without justification in…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Two schools closed today in Chesterton, Indiana. The reason? A staffer sick with Legionnaires’ disease. And then, the two schools tested positive for the bacteria legionella, which transmits typically by water droplets or…

Two northwest Indiana schools were closed Friday after an employee tested positive for Legionnaires' disease and legionella bacteria was found at the buildings, school officials said. According to Duneland School Corporation, the water…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Indiana’s Attorney General cautioned it will take a long time to get answers, after the discovery of more than 2,200 fetal remains in Will County. They were found on land in Crete owned by a now-deceased abortion doctor…

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (CBS Local) — An elementary school that had banned fifth grade students from dating quickly reversed policy after some parents expressed concern, WDRB reported Thursday. Greater Clark County Schools established “a…

Teachers at an Indiana school reportedly sent a letter home to parents asking that students no longer date. Fifth-grade teachers at Riverside Elementary in southern Indiana wrote that they are implementing a “zero dating policy,”…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Ten months before the death of Dr. Ulrich Klopfer, the Indiana abortion doctor who stored thousands of fetal remains in his garage, the doctor sat down with a filmmaker for an interview. For more insight into Klopfer’s…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Both Democratic members of Congress in the Indiana delegation have now come out in favor of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Rep. Peter Visclosky (D-Indiana), issued a five-part Twitter thread on…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CBS Local) — A ten-year-old Kentucky girl who is confined to a wheelchair was planning to miss yet another field trip until a teacher stepped in. Ryan Neighbors, a fourth grader at Tully Elementary in Louisville, was…

CHICAGO (AP) — The call came on a Saturday in July delivering grim news: Many of the computer systems serving the government of LaPorte County, Indiana, had been taken hostage with ransomware. The hackers demanded $250,000. No way,…

CHICAGO (CBS)– Investigators are going to turn their focus on a garage in Indiana that is owned by an abortion doctor who is said to have kept over 2,200 fetal remains at a different garage in Illinois. The doctor lost his license and…

CHICAGO (CBS)– A newborn baby girl was safely surrendered through a Safe Haven Baby Box at Franciscan Health Hospital in Hammond, Indiana. The Safe Haven Baby Box had been active for less than 30 days, according to hospital officials.…

CHICAGO (CBS) — Four men suspected of $1 million worth of burglaries in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin were arrested in the Milwaukee suburbs Sunday moring after a high-speed chase. The four men are from Illinois and Indiana, and…

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A Labor Day cookout ended in tragedy when a longboat ferrying seven family members capsized on a central Indiana river, killing a 6-year-old boy and a 73-year-old woman, and leaving three men missing,…

CHICAGO (CBS) — The Walmart in Hobart, Indiana, has reopened after a Sunday afternoon shooting that forced the store to close for more than 12 hours. Police were called to the store around 3:50 p.m. Sunday, after a customer was shot…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana has launched a $2.1 million campaign to educate young people on the dangers of vaping and to encourage them to stop. The social media, text and school-based “What’s Beyond the Haze” campaign launched Thursday…

CHICAGO (CBS) — A South Haven family is demanding their neighbor face charges after they say he beat their dog, causing it to lose an eye. “His spirit is just broken,” said the dog’s owner Courtney Gutowski. “He didn’t deserve this.”…

Illinois and Indiana are currently among 17 states, plus the District of Columbia, which each have some version of “extreme risk protection orders" (ERPOs), more commonly known as red flag laws. These laws are designed to allow people -…

PORTAGE, Ind. (CBS) — Following a chemical spill in the Little Calumet River that left 3,000 fish dead, the mayor of Portage, Indiana has asked steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal to put twice as many fish into the water. Portage Mayor John…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (CBS Local) — Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have received $2.9 million to develop a new diagnostic platform that could diagnose cancer in as little as three hours by using only one or two drops of blood.…

CHICAGO (CBS) — The FBI is crediting the help of a dog with its investigation of an Indiana man charged in a child pornography case. According to the Lake County State’s Attorney in Hammond, Indiana, Michael Christianson was charged with…