The Bureau of Motor Vehicles used to be the butt of jokes when it came to Indiana government agencies, with a reputation for low morale, long waits and scandal.

Police say a man driving an SUV the wrong way on Interstate 65 hit a car head-on, killing both drivers.

Indiana's jobless rate jumped a half percentage point in June - the biggest increase in the nation - as the state weathered layoffs in the auto and RV industries and a construction slowdown caused by heavy rains and flooding.

A man apparently trying to steal parts from cars was fatally crushed when the jack he was using to lift one car failed and the vehicle fell on him, police said.

A memorial at Spring Mill State Park dedicated to astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom will undergo a makeover to add new artifacts donated by his widow.

A man who brutally beat and tortured his wife after she failed to clean a cat's litter box and tidy up their room has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.

A controversy is brewing over the fatal shooting of a dog residents had doted on and declared the "Town Dog" after it showed up during June's devastating flood.

N.E.W. Customer Service Co., which provides customer support in the consumer electronic, computer and wireless industries, is expanding its work-from-home program into west-central Indiana in a move that will add up to 480 new jobs.

Police in Indianapolis have arrested Derek Matthews, 30, in connection with an incident Friday morning in which two photographerw were shot while taking pictures of a house fire in the 800 block of North Tacoma Avenue.

Both lanes of northbound I-65 near Lebanon are reopened after a head-on collison that killed Mark Cabbell of indianapolis and Samantha Burke of Lafayette. Boone County Sheriff Ken Campbell says at about 4 o'clock Saturday morning they got a call about Cabbel’s truck going the wrong way in the northbound lanes of I-65. His 2000 Chevy Blazer hit Burke’s 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix. Police say there’s some indication of alcohol being a factor with the wrong-way driver.

Gov. Mitch Daniels has ordered more money transferred into a savings account for schools because of the sagging economy.

A Purdue University panel has found two instances of misconduct by a researcher who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.