Serving Linton, Bloomfield, Jasonville, Worthington, Lyons and Greene County, Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- An Indiana House committee unanimously passed a bill that would ban the sale and manufacture of soaps and cosmetics containing tiny plastic particles that environmentalists say are polluting water resources....

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A spokeswoman for Gov. Mike Pence says she is dismayed by the "consternation and confusion" caused by documents describing plans to launch a state-run news website....

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) -- Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry says a state program to assess homeless people and prioritize those who are most in need of services will be piloted in the state's second largest city as well as Bloomington, Lafayette and Evansville....

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The chairman of Indiana's House Energy Committee says his personal investments in more than two dozen oil and gas companies don't pose a conflict of interest with his backing of legislation that would bar local governments from regulating gas and oil drilling....

ST. MARY-OF-THE-WOODS, Ind. (AP) -- Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's mother says she thinks her son would make a good U.S. president - just not yet....

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) -- A 20-year-old Maui fisherman is recovering after being bitten by an 8- to 10-foot tiger shark while he was trying to throw it back to sea....

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) -- A baby caiman has found a new home at a Lithuanian zoo after its previous owner tried to sell it online, apparently upon realizing that the pet reptile he was raising in his bathroom wasn't a harmless lizard....

FOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) -- Firefighters in Colorado have rescued two cows that plunged through the ice on a pond....

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Bart the cat was hit by a car, buried and seemingly crawled back from the dead....

VIENNA (AP) -- A kangaroo is on the loose in frigid and snowy Austria, hopping his way toward dispelling a famous slogan....