Category: Indiana

Doctor Reported Ohio 10-Year-Old’s Abortion but Listed Illegal Immigrant Rapist as Teenager

The Indiana doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old Ohio girl properly reported the procedure to authorities but listed the age of the father as 17 despite the man allegedly being 27, according to documents made public on July 14. Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an assistant professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at Indiana University,…


Indiana Asks Supreme Court to Speed up Abortion Ruling Paperwork so It Can Enforce Parental-Notification Law

Indiana filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court July 13 urging it to speed up the post-judgment paperwork after it reversed Roe v. Wade and remanded a related case so it can enforce abortion regulations put on hold by lower courts. The request comes as the states figure out how to deal with the…


Indiana Attorney General Probing Whether Doctor Reported Rape of Young Ohio Girl

Indiana’s attorney general said on July 14 that he’s investigating whether the doctor who first made public that a 10-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio and received an abortion in Indiana reported the crime. Dr. Caitlin Bernard was named as the source of a July 1 story by the Indianapolis Star. Bernard told the…


Police: 3 Shot to Death at Block Party in Gary, Indiana

GARY, Ind.—Gunfire during a July Fourth block party in northwestern Indiana left three people dead and seven wounded early Tuesday, police said. The shooting happened in a residential neighborhood of Gary, Indiana, about 12:45 a.m. and officers who responded found three people down and unresponsive, city police Lt. Dawn Westerfield said. The wounded were taken…


31 Bodies, Some Decomposing, Found at Indiana Funeral Home

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.—Police are investigating after more than 30 bodies, some decomposing, were found inside a southern Indiana funeral home. Police in the Louisville suburb of Jeffersonville responded to Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center on Friday evening and found 31 bodies, including some “in the advanced stages of decomposition,” Maj. Isaac Parker said. He said…


First Likely Monkeypox Cases Reported in Indiana and Missouri

Two more states have announced probably monkeypox cases over the past weekend as the rare virus continues to spread across the United States. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed one case in Kansas City among a resident who traveled out of the state in recent days. “This week, one of our excellent…


Police: 2 Killed, 4 Wounded in Shooting at Indiana Nightclub

GARY, Ind.—Two people were killed and four others were wounded in a shooting at an Indiana nightclub early Sunday, police said. Officers responding to reports of shots fired around 2 a.m. in Gary, southeast of Chicago, said they found two people who had been shot and were unresponsive. A 34-year-old man was near the entrance…


2nd Mistrial Declared in Indiana Case of Slain Pastor’s Wife

INDIANAPOLIS—A judge declared a second mistrial Monday for a man charged in the 2015 killing of a pastor’s wife after jurors learned details about the Indianapolis case’s long history in the court system. Larry Jo Taylor Jr.’s trial was scheduled to begin Monday, but Marion Superior Judge Grant Hawkins declared a mistrial after a juror…


Man Pleads Guilty to Murder of Starved, Beaten 12-Year-Old

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—An Indiana man accused of abusing his 12-year-old son and starving the child to death has pleaded guilty to murder. Luis Eduardo Posso Jr., 35, entered the plea Wednesday under an agreement with prosecutors that calls for the dismissal of other charges, including neglect of a dependent resulting in death and battery resulting in…


Veteran Mounts Challenge Against Democrats in Midterms, Could Become Only Black Republican Woman in House

When Jennifer-Ruth Green, a black woman, won an overwhelming victory in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District Republican primary this month, she helped improve the chances that the GOP would take the once-reliable Democrat district in the general election. Not only did Green, a political newcomer, beat an accomplished politician, Blair Milo, who served as mayor of…