Wabash Valley Resources has obtained a loan of nearly $1.6 billion from the Department of Energy for its Vigo County project, bringing the total investment to $2.4 billion, which marks the largest project in the county's history. The project aims to produce 500,000 metric tons of anhydrous ammonia using petroleum coke ...

With school back in session, AskRose Homework Help, a National Tutoring Association-certified program, announces the return of its science and math tutors for the 2024-25 school year. This free educational support provides students in grades six through 12 with access to STEM homework help from Rose-Hulman Institute of...

State highway officials say State Road 59 in Knox County is scheduled for closure on or around Friday, September 23rd for the removal of the asphalt surface and the application of a new asphalt overlay. State Road 59 will be closed between State Road 67 and State Road 58. The work is expected to last through October. T...

The Triple A Motor Club says the average price of gas in Indiana Monday stood at $3.08 a gallon, a penny lower than Sunday and 13 cents lower than Monday's national average. It was also 17 cents lower than a week ago, 31 cents lower than a month ago, and 57 cents lower than a year ago. Meanwhile, Triple A says the aver...

A fire destroyed the Bargain Center on County Road 400 North in Daviess County early Sunday morning. Firefighters were called out around 1:30 AM following a report of a smoke alarm at the location. Fire units from several departments were on the scene for several hours. The cause of the blaze remains under investigatio...

Jasper Police arrested a woman for Attempted Murder Sunday for allegedly hitting a man with a metal object resulting in a head injury. The victim called police from a riverwalk call box to say 26-year-old Clara Whippo was his assailant. Whippo was found in a farm field with the assistance of a drone and police K-9. Whi...

Vincennes Community Schools have been on the lookout for possible school safety threats in recent weeks. In a letter to parents, Superintendent Greg Parsley calls it a national problem. That problem also hit the area this week, with a student at Fort Branch Community School arrested for allegedly threatening the school...

The ACLU of Indiana filed a new lawsuit Friday over a state law which requires professors be disciplined, denied tenure, or risk tenure revocation if they fail to "foster a culture of free inquiry, free expression, and intellectual diversity" or if they fail to "expose students to scholarly works from a ...

The 36-year-old man who was stabbed getting into the shower in August in Bloomington has died of his injuries at an Indianapolis hospital. Twenty-five-year-old suspect Briley Turner was arrested August 18th on attempted murder and aggravated battery charges. Those charges will be upgraded with the death of Michael Hodg...

Incumbent Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita and Democratic challenger Destiny Wells are statistically tied in a new poll. Rokita has 44-percent support, and Wells has 41-percent, which is within the poll's four-percent margin of error. Lake Research Partners did the poll for Wells' campaign and sampled 600 likely...

The public is invited to attend a public information meeting to review maps and discuss plans for Section 2 of the Mid-States Corridor, the area currently being studied in Dubois County. The project team will provide updates and share a timeline for the Section 2 study. The public meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sep...

Knox County Sheriff's Deputies arrested a passenger of a car on felony drug charges early Thursday morning after stopping the vehicle she was riding in for having an expired license plate. A police K-9 alerted deputies to the presence of illegal drugs in the vehicle. Methamphetamine was found in the front seat passenge...

The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office says a pursuit that began in Sullivan County Saturday ended about 20 miles away in Crawford County, Illinois when stop sticks were used to being the vehicle to a stop. A passenger fled the vehicle with a handgun after it struck a utility pole. The driver stayed in the vehicle and wa...

The Gibson County Sheriff's Office reports a student at Fort Branch Community School was arrested Thursday for allegedly making threats against the school and its students. Authorities say the alleged statements were made by the student during an initial home room period at the beginning of the day. The student's comme...

Copia Power has announced plans to build a solar farm in Sullivan County within the next decade. The California-based company presented its proposal at a Sullivan County Redevelopment meeting. They aim to develop a 1,200-megawatt solar farm, with construction set to begin by mid-2028. The project is expected to create ...

An athletic doctor at Indiana University is being investigated over claims of misconduct by a former IU basketball player. Dr. Brad Bomba used to be IU basketball's team doctor, and the anonymous player says he was subjected to unnecessary exams during annual physicals. The former player, who was a student at IU severa...

Indiana's Democratic nominee for governor, Jennifer McCormick, has released her "Commonsense Cannabis Legalization Plan." She is calling for a "responsible and well-regulated industry" to allow Hoosier adults to buy and use cannabis. Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio all allow recreational adult use of t...

49-year-old Joseph Corcoran will be executed by the state before sunrise on December 18th. The Indiana Supreme Court issued a unanimous order setting the date yesterday. Corcoran is from Fort Wayne and was convicted of killing his brother, his sister's fiancé, and two friends. He's been in prison since being con...

The double murder trial of Richard Allen is still scheduled to begin October 14th after an appeal by the defense attorneys was denied. They wanted to be able to present the defense that Abby Williams and Libby German were killed in an Odinism ritual and not by Allen. The court confirmed Wednesday the trial's start rema...

The Dubois County Sheriff's Office says a Jasper man is facing multiple drug charges following an investigation that began Friday and the search of his home on Tuesday. 43-year-old Joshua Norman is charged with Possession of Methamphetamine with a Firearm, Possession of a Controlled Substance with Enhancing Circumstanc...

The Washington Community Schools Board will hold a Work Session Thursday, September 19th to develop a long-range strategic facility plan for the district. A strategic plan is a document that outlines an organization's goals and the actions it will take to achieve them. The work session will begin at 7:00 pm at the Wash...

One day after the Newton County Sheriff's Office posted an update that Corporal Brandon Schrieber would not survive his injuries, the officer has died. Schrieber was shot in the line of duty earlier this month. He died Wednesday morning. Corporal Schreiber was hospitalized following a shootout with Andrew Roselius on S...

A Washington High School graduate is the recipient of a $500 scholarship presented by the Association of Indiana Counties and sponsored by SRI, Incorporated. The AIC and SRI, Inc. presented the scholarship to Kiara Welsh, represented by her mother, in Daviess County. Kiara Welsh is a graduate of Washington High School....

Harvest season is officially underway for Indiana's 94,000 farmers, which means more slow-moving farm equipment will be on Indiana's rural roads and highways. The Indiana State Department of Agriculture is asking motorists to be alert and patient, as they share the road with farm equipment this fall. In 2022 four vehic...

You may remember Indiana Attorney General and Republican Todd Rokita suing the state Department of Health to release private Terminated Pregnancy Reports, or TPRs, to the public. That case was thrown out Tuesday by Marion County Superior Court Judge Timothy Oakes, also a Republican. Democrat nominee for attorney genera...

A single ticket sold in Texas matched all six numbers in the 800-million-dollar Mega Millions jackpot. That means for the first time since June there's a grand prize winner in the nationwide lottery. Tuesday's drawing was for an estimated 800-million dollars, or just over 400-million in cash, making it the seventh larg...

Indiana University is using a seven-and-a-half-million-dollar grant to study how artificial intelligence impacts false information online. Professor YY Ahn and a team of other educators will investigate the problem. Ahn says they are looking for ways to increase "digital literacy for people so they can be more rob...

The Indiana Department of Transportation advises State Road 145 near Birdseye in Dubois County is scheduled to be closed Monday, September 16th for a small structure replacement. The highway will be closed over the Anderson River, four miles north of I-64. Work is expected to take three weeks to complete, depending on ...

The Gibson County Sheriff's Office says two Princeton residents were arrested Saturday on drug dealing charges. A search warrant for their residence was obtained after police received information of drug activity taking place there. Once the investigation was completed, 43-year-old James Austin Junior and 38-year-old D...

The Dubois County Health Department says it is offering daily COVID-19, RSV and Flu vaccinations. Patients need to have their ID's and insurance information. All three of these vaccines will remain available at the Dubois County Health Department from 8:30 am until 3:30 pm Monday through Friday. No appointment is neede...