TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The company that’s taken over stalled plans for a new casino in Terre Haute is dropping its proposed location overlooking the city sewage treatment plant and county jail.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A monument to a young soldier who died in 1898 after rescuing children and workers from a fire at a western Indiana department store where he was portraying Santa Claus will be refurbished and moved next year to the site of the fire.
NEW YORK (AP) — After Sister Barbara Battista, a Roman Catholic nun staunchly opposed to the death penalty, agreed to accompany a condemned man at his execution in federal prison, she wondered doubtfully, “Am I just part of this whole killing machine?”
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A historical marker has been dedicated in western Indiana in remembrance of a Black man lynched about 120 years ago by a white mob.
George Ward’s descendants, Terre Haute residents and the mayor were among those at Sunday's ceremony in Fairbanks Park, the (Terre Haute) Tribune-Star reported.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An inmate who was transferred to one of the most secure federal prison facilities in the U.S. was stabbed to death within hours of arriving, raising fresh questions about the government’s ability to keep prisoners safe amid severe understaffing and a myriad of crises plaguing the federal prison system.