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  UPDATE 4: Deadly tornado roars through Oklahoma City suburb

  A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 51 people were killed, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.

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• Indiana's tuition law gets one more look

   Two years ago, Indiana lawmakers bent on cracking down on illegal immigration passed a law that banned in-state college tuition for children of undocumented workers, and resulted in hundreds of students dropping out when they couldn’t afford the much higher out-of-state rates.

  March 25, 2013  

• Voucher opponents rally at Statehouse

  Hundreds of people gathered at the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday to rally against a bill that would expand the state’s private-school voucher program, already the largest in the nation.

  March 19, 2013 2 Photos  

• Karen Pence forging her role as Indiana's first lady

  As the mother of three young children when her husband was first elected to Congress, Karen Pence heeded the advice of some friends who encouraged her to move her family to the Washington, D.C., area rather than stay behind in Indiana.

  March 18, 2013 2 Photos  

• PPD to honor local heroes

  PITTSBORO — Two employees of the Pittsboro Veterinary Clinic became heroes in their community when they intervened in a domestic violence situation on Feb. 22.

  March 15, 2013  

• Commission calls for closing college ‘achievement gap’

  The Indiana Commission on Higher Education wants the state’s colleges and universities to be more aggressive in closing the graduation “achievement gap” for Hispanic and black students, who are dropping out of college at a significantly higher rate than white students.

  March 14, 2013  

• Online sales tax bill may not get Senate hearing

  Legislation that would speed up the date for when Amazon and other online retailers would have to start collecting the state sales tax may be dead.

  March 14, 2013 1 Photo  

• Pence finds new role ‘fundamentally different’

  Gov. Mike Pence has made no secret that his Christian faith is critical to his identity, but he may be relying on his faith more than ever before in his challenging new political role.

  March 12, 2013  

• Gov. Pence opposes provisions to expand gaming

   Indiana Gov. Mike Pence isn’t saying the word “veto,” but he’s making clear he opposes key provisions in a Senate gaming bill that would allow riverboat casinos to move inland and add live table games to the slot-machine rooms at the state’s two horse-racing tracks.

  March 12, 2013  

• Revenue department undergoes overhaul

  When retired banker Mike Alley became state revenue commissioner last May, he took over a department badly bruised by revelations that it had misplaced a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money.

  March 11, 2013 1 Photo  

• Ritz in Anderson to discuss education issues

  Indiana Superintendent Glenda Ritz led a panel of community leaders in a discussion of current education topics Saturday morning in the Miami Room of the Anderson Public Library.

  March 9, 2013 1 Photo  

• Tea party group to launch campaign to support Pence tax cut

  At a press conference at the Statehouse Thursday, a conservative tea-party organization founded by the billionaire Koch brothers announced it was pouring money into a statewide campaign to pressure Republican lawmakers into giving Pence what he wants: a 10 percent cut in the state income tax rate.

  March 7, 2013 1 Photo  

• ACLU vows to challenge Indiana abortion bill

  A controversial bill that imposes new state requirements on clinics that offer the abortion pill is likely headed for a constitutional challenge if passed and signed into law, as expected.

  March 5, 2013  

• Maureen Hayden: Social media may be more appealing to gamblers

  Indiana lawmakers have been debating whether to give the state’s casinos more financial incentives to compete with the shiny new gambling palaces popping up in Ohio.

  March 3, 2013 1 Photo  

• Ohio casinos target Indiana

  Ohio’s decision to get into the lucrative world of gaming is posing a serious threat to Indiana’s share of casino dollars and prompting a Statehouse debate about how to respond.

  March 2, 2013 2 Photos  

• Pence vows to push tax cut ‘relentlessly’

  Having failed to convince state lawmakers in his own party to embrace his tax cut plan, Gov. Mike Pence is taking his message on the road.

  February 28, 2013  

• State revenue department moves to improve local tax distributions

  The Indiana Department of Revenue has requested nearly $10 million in additional funding to hire more staff and upgrade its technology to do a better job of tracking and distributing the more than $1.5 billion in income tax revenues owed to local governments each year.

  February 25, 2013  

• Maureen Hayden: Pot debate still included in criminal code overhaul

   In the flurry of activity at the Statehouse in recent weeks, I missed reporting some sad news for stoners: The legislation to decriminalize marijuana is dead.

  February 24, 2013 1 Photo  

• Counties’ organization backs GOP House budget plan over Pence plan

  The Republican-dominated Association of Indiana Counties has thrown its support behind the House Republicans’ budget plan that calls for spending the state’s surplus on roads and schools instead of a tax cut proposed by Gov. Mike Pence.

  February 24, 2013  

• Indiana seeing surge in gun-permit applications

  INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana State Police are seeing a surge in gun permit requests amid the national gun-control debate sparked by December’s deadly Connecticut school shooting.

  February 21, 2013  

• Indiana House approves disaster relief funding bill

  A bill authored by state Rep. Randy Frye, R-Greensburg, would give some financial relief to local fire departments that respond to the state’s call when a disaster hits another community.

  February 19, 2013 1 Photo  

• U.S. audit: Indiana should refund $5.8M to Medicaid

  INDIANAPOLIS — A federal audit recommends that Indiana’s human services agency refund more than $5.8 million in Medicaid funds because a state hospital failed to “demonstrate compliance” with special conditions for psychiatric hospitals.

  February 15, 2013  

• Legislation would reduce use of restraints, isolation rooms in schools

  Advocates for children with special needs are backing legislation aimed at reducing the use of physical restraints and locked isolation rooms to discipline students.

  February 14, 2013  

• Bill would give high-performing schools more dollars, flexibility

  After focusing on failing schools in recent legislative sessions, some Indiana lawmakers say it’s time to reward high-performing schools with more money and more flexibility.

  February 11, 2013  

• Maureen Hayden column: Gov. Pence tight-lipped on social issues

  As a U.S. congressman, Mike Pence made it perfectly clear how he felt about the need for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

  February 10, 2013 1 Photo  

• House passes criminal records expungement bill

  Legislation that would give judges much more discretion to erase the criminal records of people who could show they’ve redeemed themselves is headed to the state Senate.

  February 6, 2013  

• Indiana Senate advances cursive writing requirement

  Indiana state Sen. Jean Leising’s push to require the teaching of cursive writing in elementary schools has gotten national attention. On Tuesday, that push moved forward as her colleagues in the Senate approved her legislation that would reverse the state Department of Education’s decision to make cursive writing optional.

  February 5, 2013 1 Photo  

• State wrestles with control over specialty license plates

  Specialty license plates raise millions of dollars for universities and nonprofits in Indiana, but they’re also prompting debate about what kind of controls the state should exert over them.

  February 4, 2013  

• Maureen Hayden: GOP leadership noticing public’s changed attitude on same-sex relationships

  If GOP leaders in the Indiana General Assembly announce this week, as expected, that they’re postponing a vote on a constitutional ban on same-sex marriages and civil unions, you can expect them to cite the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to step into the larger issue later this year as the primary reason.

  February 3, 2013 1 Photo  

• Ballot question may slow down same-sex marriage ban amendment

  One of the issues slowing down the proposed same-sex marriage ban amendment is the question of how to remove it from the 2014 ballot if the U.S. Supreme Court rules this summer that such bans are unconstitutional.

  January 31, 2013  

• Criminal records expungement bill moves forward

  Legislation that would allow more people the opportunity to erase their criminal records if they could show they’d redeemed themselves passed a critical vote Wednesday.

  January 30, 2013  

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