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Black man assaulted at Indiana lake faces criminal charges A Black man who said a group of white men assaulted him and threatened to “get a noose” at a southern Indiana lake is facing criminal charges more than a year after the confrontation that earlier led to charges against two of the alleged attackers. Posted: Aug 2, 2021 4:39 PM Posted By: Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Black man who said a group of white men assaulted him and threatened to “get a noose” at a southern ...

Indiana files appeal in federal pandemic unemployment case CASEY SMITH, Associated Press/Report for America July 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2020, file photo, a help wanted sign is displayed at a car wash in Indianapolis. Indiana’s Department of Workforce Development said Wednesday, July 7, 2021 that it still hasn’t decided how to continue payment of federal unemployment benefits more than a week after a judge ruled that the state must restart the extra $300 weekl...

Case dropped against dead woman in Indiana hit-and-run case CASEY SMITH, Associated Press/Report for America July 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - This July 9, 2020 file photo provided by the Monroe County Correctional Center in Bloomington, Ind., shows Christi Bennett. The case against Bennett, an Indiana woman who was charged in a hit-and-run crash during a southern Indiana protest last summer was dropped after prosecutors confirmed she died in Colorado earlier this year. Christi Jane ...

Indiana sees English, math scores drop on standardized tests Fewer than one-third of elementary and middle school students in Indiana recorded passing scores on the latest round of state standardized tests, results released Wednesday show, confirming education officials concerns that the coronavirus pandemic has fueled substantial learning losses. Posted: Jul 14, 2021 3:29 PM Posted By: By CASEY SMITH INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Fewer than one-third of elementary and middle school students in India...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Some area municipalities were scrambling this week to submit applications for federal pandemic relief funding, with an initial deadline looming Wednesday. They got a break from that crunch when officials extended that deadline by a month. The state Department of Community and Economic Development “started urging municipalities to apply as soon as possible once the (American Re...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal freeze on most evictions that was enacted last year is scheduled to expire July 31, after the Biden administration extended the date by a month. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, has been the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes.

A Marion County judge ordered Friday that Indiana must continue the federal government’s unemployment benefits, putting a temporary stop to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s move to drop the state from the program.

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June 9, 2021 — A federal grand jury sitting in Atlanta, Georgia, returned an indictment today charging an Atlanta certified public accountant with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States; 24 counts of wire fraud; 32 counts of aiding or assisting in the preparation of false federal tax returns; and five counts of filing false federal tax returns relating to a wide-ranging, abusive tax shelter scheme.

A wish list of 90 projects in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties are among hundreds across the state seeking funding in the latest round of the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. They include $5 million for to redevelop a former Alcoa site in New Kensington, $5 million for a health sciences center