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Indiana House GOP Leader: Democrats to End Boycott
By not in system - AOL NewsINDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana House Democrats who fled the state nearly six weeks ago to protest a Republican agenda they considered an assault on labor unions and public education planned to return to the Statehouse on Monday, ending one of the longest legislative walkouts in recent U.S. history, the House Republican leader said. House Majority Leader Brian Bosma said he had been informed that Minority Leader Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, and fellow Democrats would return from their headquarters-in-exile in Urbana, Ill. Democrats were meeting in Illinois on Monday, and a spokesman for the ...
UPDATED: One Person Shot at Indiana Middle School, Suspect in Custody
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsUPDATED, 12:21 P.M. EST -- A teenage boy was shot this morning at Martinsville West Middle School, in Martinsville, Ind., police confirmed to AOL News today. Brad Wilson of the Martinsville Police Department said in a phone interview that the suspected shooter, a 15-year-old boy who is also a student at the middle school, is in custody. The suspect had reportedly been suspended from school two days earlier. Kara Brooks, a 13-year-old seventh-grader at Martinsville West, told The Indianapolis Star that he had been suspended for threatening to blow up the school. The victim was shot ...
Mennonites, Presbyterians Oppose Indiana Immigration Bill (SB 590)
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsA tough new bill targeting illegal immigrants in Indiana has several faith traditions speaking up in protest. The Elkhart Truth reports that the Mennonite Church USA, which is headquartered in Indiana and represents 939 congregations nationwide, has registered its official opposition to Senate Bill 590. Meanwhile, according to The Indianapolis Star, leaders of the Presbyterian Church have said they will not hold their biannual conference in Indianapolis this summer if SB 590 passes. That has the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association worried about the bill's potential impact on ...
Indiana Elections Chief Charged With Voter Fraud
By not in system - AOL NewsINDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana's top elections official was indicted Thursday on voter fraud and other charges for allegedly listing his ex-wife's address as his own on voting and loan forms and serving on a town council when he was ineligible, a prosecutor said. The Hamilton County grand jury charged Republican Secretary of State Charlie White with seven felony counts in all, including three counts of voter fraud, two counts of perjury and one count each of theft and financial fraud, said John Dowd, one of two special prosecutors asked to investigate the matter. White, who would be forced to ...
Old Enemy -- Flooding -- Revisits Weary Ohio City
By not in system - AOL NewsFINDLAY, Ohio -- Jarrod Steffan loaded his kayak with fans and shuttled them across his flooded street Tuesday to begin drying out his house. It was a drill he knew all too well. Floodwaters slowly began to recede after soaking several hundred homes, the third major flood to swamp this northwest Ohio city in the past four years. "You can't do anything but rebuild and go on," Steffan said. The floods were part of the aftermath of storms that swept through the Midwest and South over the past two days, spawning tornadoes and heavy rains and killing at least five people, including four in ...
Strip Club Patron Says Exotic Dancer's Shoe Chipped His Teeth
By David Lohr - AOL NewsAn Indiana man is suing a strip club, claiming he was injured by a heavy-heeled shoe that came off an exotic dancer's foot when she was performing a "high-kick maneuver," his attorney said today. "As bizarre as it is, the strip club had a duty to protect its customers and it did not do that," attorney Syed Ali Saeed told AOL News. "[They] need to make sure people are wearing the right kind of clothes and [that those clothes] are not flying off." Saeed's client, Jake Quagliaroli, 34, of Indianapolis, was visiting PT's Showclub in nearby Lawrence last month when the alleged shoe assault ...
Roads Flooded, Power Out in Parts of Midwest
By not in system - AOL NewsFINDLAY, Ohio -- Storms with heavy rain, high winds and hail flooded homes and roads Monday and knocked out power in parts of the Midwest, where at least six people were injured and three tornadoes touched down in Indiana. Three homes in Kentucky were destroyed by a tornado. Flooding was a threat in all 88 of Ohio's counties, the National Weather Service said. Wind gusts of 60 mph or more were recorded in several locations, followed by scattered reports of homes with roof damage, uprooted trees and downed power lines. Utilities reported that as many as 31,000 Ohio customers had no power late ...
Labor Battles Rage On in Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsAs a raucous week in the Midwest comes to an end, several state legislatures remain deadlocked over bills that many see as attempts to wrest power away from unions. Wisconsin In the wee hours of this morning, Republicans in the State Assembly held a "flash" vote, passing a controversial bill eradicating collective bargaining for most public employees, before Democrats had a handle on what was happening. Debate on the bill began in the Assembly on Tuesday morning and had lasted an exhausting 61 hours, as Democrats attempted to filibuster. M.P. King, Wisconsin State Journal / ...
Indiana Deputy Attorney General Fired Over Threatening Twitter Posts
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsIndiana Deputy Attorney General Jeff Cox has been fired for remarks he made on Twitter last week, suggesting riot police in Wisconsin should use live ammunition when clearing protesters out of the Wisconsin Capitol building. The tweet led to a war of words between Cox and Mother Jones magazine editor Adam Weinstein, who uncovered and wrote about similar comments on Cox's blog. The blog has since been taken down. "Civility and courtesy toward all members of the public are very important to the Indiana attorney general's office. We respect individuals' First Amendment right to express their ...
Wisconsin Lawmakers Take Up Bill to Cripple Unions
By not in system - AOL NewsMADISON, Wis. -- With their Senate colleagues still in hiding, Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly began introducing a barrage of 100 amendments Tuesday to try to stymie the Republican governor's plan to strip unionized public employees of most of their bargaining rights. Both houses of the GOP-controlled Legislature convened shortly before noon amid noisy protests outside the state Capitol that began more than a week ago in an epic showdown that is being watched nervously by organized labor across the country. The Senate was unable to take up the union measure because its 14 Democrats ...
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