A federal judge has ordered a former northern Indiana mayor and two ex-aides to pay $108 million in civil damages in an alleged sidewalks-for-votes scheme. U.S. District Judge James Moody filed his decision Thursday in a racketeering lawsuit filed by the state in 2004 ...

An Indiana man whose cross-country crime spree with his girlfriend a decade ago ended in a gun battle with police in San Francisco was executed Thursday in Texas for killing a sheriff's officer. Joshua Maxwell's voice broke as he apologized repeatedly in the seconds before the ...

The following products are being recalled because they could be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children and others with weakened immune systems: ___ McCormick & Co. Inc. of Sparks, Md., is expanding an earlier recall to include more "best-by" dates of onion gravy, vegetable dip and French onion dip mixes ...

Indiana's unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent for January as some 327,000 people were looking for work. The state Department of Workforce Development statistics released Wednesday revised December's jobless rate to 9.7 percent from the preliminary ...