Articles filed under Indiana

• High winds buffet Indiana, toll road issues limits Feb 11, 2013 12:00 AM
  High winds buffeting much of Indiana have prompted officials to temporarily ban certain trucks from using the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road. All but far southern and southeastern Indiana remain under a wind advisory until 9 p.m. Monday because of high winds that could produce gusts of up to 50 mph.
  

   

• Illinois, Indiana to join for summit on guns Feb 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  Hoping to address the flow of guns across state lines, Cook County Sherriff Tom Dart plans to host a gun summit in Indiana later this week, his spokesman told The Associated Press on Sunday. The event will be held Friday in Gary. Those invited include Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, Gary Police Chief Wade Ingram and Lake County (Ind.) Sheriff John Buncich.
  

   

• Indiana congressman proposes concealed weapon law Feb 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  A congressman from northeastern Indiana is sponsoring a bill that would allow people who legally carry a concealed weapon in their home state to do the same in other states that allow concealed weapons. U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman says the proposed measure would eliminate confusion among law enforcement and gun owners about which states have agreements about concealed carry laws. He also says the right to self-defense is the cornerstone of the Second Amendment.
  

   

• NW Ind. police officer indicted in payroll scheme Feb 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  A northwestern Indiana police officer has been indicted on fraud charges alleging that he orchestrated a ghost payrolling scheme. Forty-two-year-old Robert Aponte faces 12 fraud charges for allegedly submitting time sheets that falsely overstated the hours the East Chicago police office worked between January 2009 and September 2011.
  

   

• Chicago prison guard accused of bribery Feb 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  A 51-year-old guard at a federal prison in downtown Chicago has been indicted on bribery charges after authorities alleged he broke rules regarding inmate contraband. The U.S. attorney’s office said Tony Henderson is charged with five counts of bribery in an indictment.
  

   

• 3 adults, 2 kids die in Indiana mobile home blaze Feb 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  Two children and three adults died in a mobile home fire in a remote rural area of southern Indiana early Thursday, and authorities are exploring the possibility that the blaze was sparked by a wood stove.County Emergency Management Director Larry Allen said the fire, which was reported at 1 a.m., killed all the occupants of the mobile home near the small village of Sulphur, about 30 miles west of Louisville, Ky.
  

   

• Prosecutor moves to dismiss deer rescue charges Feb 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  An Indiana prosecutor says he has submitted a motion to dismiss the illegal possession charges against a couple who nursed an injured white-tailed deer back to health and kept it on their farm for two years.
  

   

• Purdue looks into possible 2nd typhoid fever case Feb 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  Health officials on Purdue University's main campus in West Lafayette possibly have a second case of typhoid fever. The Indiana State Department of Health has said a food handler at Purdue is believed to have contracted the disease while traveling abroad.
  

   

• Ivy Tech-Northwest to train workers 50 and older Feb 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  Ivy Tech Community College in northwestern Indiana has been selected to be part of a national program that will assist adults age 50 and older to learn skills in health care, education and social services. Ivy Tech-Northwest is one of 17 colleges picked nationwide to take part in the Plus 50 Encore Completion Program sponsored by the American Association of Community Colleges. The school has campuses in Gary, Valparaiso, East Chicago and Michigan City.
  

   

• Ind. city moves to ban roadway money collections Feb 5, 2013 12:00 AM
  A southern Indiana city has taken its first step toward banning charities from collecting money from motorists at intersections. The New Albany City Council voted 5-3 Monday to ban collections on the city's roads. The council is expected to take third and final votes on the proposal Feb. 21. Public works board member Warren Nash says 18 groups last year received permission from the board to conduct roadside collections. Nash says that while fundraising for disabled children, band uniforms and other causes is laudable, public safety should come first.
  

   

• Police: Ex-Ind. teacher secretly filmed students Feb 5, 2013 12:00 AM
  A former southern Indiana teacher facing voyeurism charges allegedly had secretly recorded video footage of 16 female students stored on his computer. Thirty-one-year-old Andrew Emmons of Boonville was arrested Friday on 16 counts of child exploitation and 10 counts of voyeurism. He's being held at the Warrick County Jail on a $14,400 bond.
  

   

• Notre Dame students to use iPads instead of books Feb 4, 2013 12:00 AM
  Students in two Internet-driven courses at the University of Notre Dame will lease iPads instead of buying textbooks under a pilot program this spring. The computer tablets will go to students in "Introduction to the First Amendment: Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age" and "Introduction to Web-Based Interactivity, and Data-Driven Design."
  

   

• Promises of change on heels of mistaken release of inmate Feb 2, 2013 12:00 AM
  Two days after a stunning series of errors allowed a convicted murderer to walk out of a Chicago jail where he did not need to be in the first place, police recaptured the man at a northern Illinois home where he was found watching TV. The prisoner’s mistaken release focused attention on an antiquated corner of the criminal justice system that still relies extensively on paper documents instead of computers in moving detainees and keeping tabs on their court status.
  

   

• Indiana man to plead guilty to ‘sextortion’ Feb 1, 2013 12:00 AM
  An Indiana man has agreed to plead guilty to charges alleging that he tricked more than a dozen teenagers into stripping or performing sexual acts for him via webcam and then used recordings of those sessions to coerce them into making even more explicit videos.
  

   
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  Mistakenly released killer captured in Kankakee Feb 1, 2013 12:00 AM
  A convicted murderer from Indiana who was mistakenly released after a Chicago court appearance is back in custody, the Cook County sheriff’s office said Friday night. Steven L. Robbins Robbins, 44, was taken into custody by Cook County sheriff’s police without incident in Kankakee, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said.
  

   
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  Alvarez: Killer didn’t even need to be brought to court Feb 1, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Cook County state’s attorney says a convicted murder released by mistake after a Chicago court appearance did not even need to be brought before the court. Anita Alvarez told reporters Friday that drug and armed violence charges against Steven Robbins in Cook County were dismissed in 2007.
  

   

• Agency wants charges dropped in Indiana deer rescue case Feb 1, 2013 12:00 AM
  he Indiana Department of Natural Resources said Friday it is asking a prosecutor to drop charges against a couple who nursed an injured baby deer back to health and kept it in an enclosure on their property for two years.
  

   

• $10,000 reward offered in case of mistakenly released inmate Feb 1, 2013 12:00 AM
  The FBI and U.S. Marshals Service are offering a $10,000 reward for an Indiana convicted murderer who was mistakenly released in Chicago after court appearance. The FBI announced the reward on Friday for information leading to the apprehension of Steven L. Robbins.
  

   

• Police dog found after 8-mile trek from its kennel Jan 31, 2013 12:00 AM
  A northeastern Indiana police chief says a police dog that escaped from a kennel was found in good health about eight miles away following a long night of wandering. Columbia City Police Chief Tim Longenbaugh says the Dutch shepherd named Stryker escaped Tuesday afternoon from his kennel in the Whitley County town of Collins.
  

   

• Fort Wayne may see big influx of Burmese refugees Jan 31, 2013 12:00 AM
  The U.S. State Department says the city of Fort Wayne could see its biggest influx of refugees in years from the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar. Human-services agencies say Fort Wayne has one of the nation's largest concentrations of refugees from the country formerly known as Burma.