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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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• Head of state budget-writing committee is healer by trade

  Tim Brown is the lone physician in the Indiana General Assembly. In his 18 years in the Legislature, the Crawfordsville emergency-room doctor has never had a direct role in crafting the state’s two-year fiscal plan that now amounts to about $28 billion in spending.

  December 6, 2012  

• State education board votes to change licensing rules

  Over the protests of teachers’ unions and some universities that train new teachers, the State Board of Education has changed the licensing and credential process rules for K-12 educators.

  December 5, 2012 1 Photo  

• Governor’s new book includes concession speech never made

  Gov. Mitch Daniels has made headlines — as well as fans and detractors — with some of his sharp-worded speeches on fiscal policy, social issues and education reform. But a new book chronicling some of those words contains one speech he never made: His 2008 “concession” speech.

  December 4, 2012 2 Photos  

• 'Parks and Recreation' meets real politics in Indiana shoot

  Former presidential candidate Newt Gingrich unexpectedly walked into St. Elmo’s Steak House in downtown Indianapolis as actor Rob Lowe and his "Parks and Recreation" co-stars were filming a scene for an upcoming episode of the popular sitcom based in fictional Pawnee, Ind.

  December 3, 2012 1 Photo  

• Rob Lowe digs into his Indiana roots

  Actor Rob Lowe didn’t just bring his boyish good looks and Emmy-winning star power to the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation” when he joined the ensemble cast two years ago. He also brought some Hoosier sentimentality.

  December 3, 2012 1 Photo  

• Indiana more likely to lessen penalties, not legalize pot

  The head of the Indiana State Police may have surprised legislators last week when he told a state budget committee that he personally favored legalizing marijuana, but the push to re-think Indiana’s pot laws isn’t new.

  December 2, 2012  

• Maureen Hayden: ‘Getting Ritzed’ new catch phrase in Indianapolis

  There’s a new phrase starting to emerge in the lexicon of the Indiana Statehouse: “Getting Ritzed.”
  It refers to the stunning Nov. 6 electoral victory of political newcomer Glenda Ritz over her giant of an opponent, Tony Bennett, in the race for superintendent of public instruction.

  December 2, 2012 1 Photo  

• Supporters of Sunday alcohol sales try again

  Supporters of failed efforts to legalize Sunday alcohol sales in Indiana live by the motto of “try, try again.” They’re re-introducing legislation, shot down in the past, that would allow the purchase of carryout alcohol on Sundays and put an end to one of the last “blue laws” on the books.

  November 28, 2012  

• GOP leaders in Statehouse predict review of education reforms

  Republican legislative leaders stung by the defeat of the state schools superintendent say Indiana lawmakers may take a closer look at how some of the sweeping education reforms in K-12 schools have been implemented.

  November 19, 2012 1 Photo  

• I-69 opens in southern Indiana

  With a cut of a ribbon, I-69 was open Monday.
  The dream of many in Daviess County and southwest Indiana was realized as Gov. Mitch Daniels led the opening parade up the 67-mile stretch of new interstate from Evansville to NSWC Crane.

  November 19, 2012 1 Photo 1 Slideshow  

• Maureen Hayden: Email responses about upset present common themes

  Political forecaster Nate Silver is a rock star in the world of statistical analysis, having earned well-deserved celebrity for his nearly spot-on predictions of how voters in each state would cast their ballots in the 2008 and 2012 presidential and Senate races.

  November 18, 2012 1 Photo  

• Visionaries reflect back on I-69's beginnings

  It is hard to believe, but Interstate 69 did not start in an office, where its proponents had to convince others the road is needed.
  Nor did it start a boardroom, where countless meetings and decisions were made on its potential impact or decide where it would go should there be a way to fund it.
  It really didn’t start at the desk of Gov. Mitch Daniels, who decided to spend the $700 million to build the road, or in the cabs of hundreds of trucks who moved tons of earth in building the 67 miles that residents here will be driving on this Thanksgiving holiday.
  The interstate on the city’s east side, set to open Monday, was definitely moved along in these places, but its start was small, at a breakfast table.

  November 17, 2012 1 Photo 1 Slideshow  

• East-end bridge expected to open in 2016

  Under a proposal picked Friday by the state financing authority, the Indiana portion of the long-awaited Ohio River Bridges Project would be completed under budget and far ahead of the original project schedule.

  November 16, 2012  

• Ritz’s crew reaches reluctant legislators with social media

  Some of the same forces that used social media to defeat the Republican state schools superintendent are mobilizing their resources again, this time to send a message to GOP leaders to pay attention to the election results.

  November 13, 2012 1 Photo  

• Indiana judge answers call of duty with specialized courts for veterans

  Floyd County Superior Court Judge Maria Granger is the proud daughter of a retired Marine, sister to a former sailor, and wife and stepmother of soldiers. She answered her call of duty in a different way: By creating a problem-solving court for veterans who find themselves in legal trouble.

  November 10, 2012  

• Numbers drive creation of Indiana's military veterans courts

  Since 2008, when the first veterans treatment court opened in New York, judges across the nation have been responding to the needs of veterans struggling to recover from the psychic wounds of war.

  November 10, 2012  

• New state schools superintendent may face limit on power

  Democrat Glenda Ritz won the race for the state’s schools superintendent by challenging the education overhaul implemented by the Republican incumbent Tony Bennett, but her power to stop the sweeping changes in Indiana schools may be limited.

  November 8, 2012 1 Photo  

• Ritz upsets Bennett in Indiana education chief race

  Democratic challenger Glenda Ritz pulled off a stunning upset Tuesday night, beating incumbent Republican Tony Bennett in the unexpectedly tight race for Indiana superintendent of public instruction.

  November 6, 2012 1 Photo  

• Maureen Hayden: Legislators likely to face marijuana issue next session

  The much anticipated Howey/Depauw Indiana Battleground Poll released last week was worth the wait, with its newsworthy revelation that the U.S. Senate race wasn’t shaping up the way it was anticipated.

  November 4, 2012 1 Photo  

• Indiana Republicans seeking ‘super majority’ in House

  Indiana Republicans are hoping to score a rare kind of victory this November: winning enough seats to claim a “super majority” in both the House and Senate while taking the governor’s office as well.

  November 1, 2012 1 Photo  

• Commission approves criminal code reforms

  The effort to overhaul major portions of Indiana’s criminal code to make punishment more proportionate to the crime moved another step forward Wednesday.

  October 31, 2012  

• New grading system for Indiana schools results in mixed marks

  The state Department of Education released its controversial A through F letter grades Wednesday for more than 2,000 Indiana schools.

  October 31, 2012  

• State releases new grading system for schools

  The state Department of Education released its controversial A through F letter grades today for more than 2,000 Indiana schools.

  October 31, 2012  

• Indiana courts seeing decrease in filings

  The 2011 Indiana Judicial Service Report, released Monday, shows the overall number of criminal and civil cases being handled by judges and court personnel down to about where it was a decade ago.

  October 29, 2012  

• Indiana’s third party sees progress beyond its wins

  Inside the Indiana Libertarian Party headquarters in downtown Indianapolis is a hardy band of volunteers who don’t see losing a political race quite the same way other people do.

  October 24, 2012  

• Libertarians try to leverage ‘Survivor’ celebrity to win votes

  The Democratic and Republican candidates running for governor this year are spending millions upon millions of dollars to get voters to pay attention to them. The third guy in the race just has to show up.

  October 24, 2012 2 Photos  

• Freshman lawmaker makes jump to statewide ticket

  Last April, not long after returning home from a contentious legislative session, freshman state lawmaker Sue Ellspermann got a call from someone who said he was with Mike Pence’s gubernatorial campaign.

  October 23, 2012 1 Photo  

• Pence campaign rooted in victories and mistakes of the past

  In 2006, Indiana congressman Mike Pence found himself in an unlikely place: Sitting across from U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, the unabashed liberal Democrat whose beliefs about the interventionist role of federal government were polar opposite from those of the Republican Pence.

  October 23, 2012 2 Photos  

• Veteran legislator brings different view to Democratic ticket

  The general election of 1984 wasn’t a good year for Democrats, as Republicans in Indiana and across the nation rode in on the coattails of President Ronald Reagan’s landslide re-election.

  October 22, 2012 2 Photos  

• For Democrat Gregg, politics is about the personal

  In John Gregg’s book about his life in politics, the southern Indiana Democrat opens the first chapter with a somber quote about the moral roots of public service and a humorous description of himself as a  “burrheaded pudgy kid.”

  October 22, 2012 2 Photos  

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