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HOPE — Hope celebrated July 4th with its annual Old-Fashioned Independence Day celebration in the Hope Town Square on Friday.

Seventy-five years after Jane Ott Hoffman was queen of the Bartholomew County 4-H Fair, she got to be queen for a day once again.

BROWNSTOWN — Jackson County is denying that the county’s sheriff and officials at its jail violated the constitutional rights of an inmate suffering from a mental health crisis who died last year after spending 20 days in solitary confinement.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s near-total abortion ban that prohibits the procedure with only narrow exceptions will go back into effect after the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the law Friday. But justices left open the possibility for other challenges in the future.

Cleaning up has started after a severe thunderstorm barreled through Bartholomew County on Thursday afternoon, leaving numerous trees down and knocking out power to thousands of residents.

Columbus officials are contemplating possible changes to the city’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts, including an expansion of the Central Allocation Area and the creation of a new TIF district downtown.

A local bartender’s bid to run for mayor of Columbus as an independent candidate has become official.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … 4-Hers?

HOPE – While a miniature Australian shepherd is officially partnering with law enforcement, it’s won’t be the K9’s job to sniff out drugs or take down fleeing criminals.

FRANKLIN — An Indiana State Police trooper who lived in Franklin was killed during a police pursuit Wednesday night.