Nearly $8 million in federal disaster assistance grants and loans has been approved so far by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Small Business Administration for residents of 16 counties affected by recent storms and flooding.

A coroner Saturday confirmed a suicide in the prison hanging death of Simon Rios, the illegal immigrant who was serving five life terms for the strangling deaths of his wife, three young daughters and a neighborhood girl.

A new report provides grist for a health policy political debate Monday: Indiana fares better than most states when it comes to employer-provided health insurance, but the percentage of Hoosiers who are covered is dropping.

With record numbers of voters registering for November's election it poses fears of fraud.

Indiana's top elections officer has asked the state attorney general's office and federal prosecutors to investigate allegations that perhaps thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms have been submitted in Lake County by an advocacy group accused of fraud in other states.

Governing magazine named Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels on Thursday as one of its top eight public officials in 2008, citing him for getting infrastructure and health care legislation passed and putting Indiana government on strong financial ground.

The Indiana Supreme Court on Friday ordered opened to the public hundreds of pages of documents that had been sealed at the request of corporations involved in an insurance dispute.

About 300 Hoosier motorcyclists, including Governor Mitch Daniels, have hit the road on a two-day, nine-county ride to promote motorcycle safety.

Indianapolis Metro Police are asking for the public's help in identifying the victim found inside the location of Friday morning's house fire.

Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter has filed a lawsuit against two companies for making illegal sales calls to Hoosiers whose phone numbers are registered on the state's Do Not Call list.

8th District Congressman Brad Ellsworth says even though many people in his district were opposed to the Wall Street financial rescue plan, he felt passing it was the right thing to do.

General Motors' stock has plummeted below five dollars a share, to its lowest level since 1950. Standard and Poor's says it's considering further downgrading GM's debt, which is already at junk-bond levels.