Big cases put state’s attorney general in spotlight - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Add a political atmosphere in which Republican state lawmakers are more than willing to push a long-suppressed conservative agenda, even if it stretches previously accepted limits of state government’s power.
Mix in a successful – and desirable – public relations effort to keep Hoosiers informed about what their attorney general is doing.
The final touch: A likable personality with a sense of humor and just a slight southern Indiana drawl – the epitome of the kind of person you would vote for because he’s the candidate you’d want to have a beer with.
The result is an Indiana attorney general who has become not only one of the most visible and active in the state’s history but perhaps the state’s most important official after the governor.
Big cases put state's attorney general in spotlight - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Indiana liability cap in stage collapse questioned - Chicago Tribune
We had an awesome weekend at North Coast. Didn't you? Check out our pics from all three days of the fest. 'Soul Train' throwing birthday bash in Millennium Park "Soul Train," the televised house that Don Cornelius built on a bedrock of soul, funk and ahead-of-their time dance moves, will celebrate its 40th anniversary today with a free concert at Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.
Nea a 4-year-old female Atlantic bottlenose dolphin set to perform today at an afternoon Brookfield Zoo dolphin show died after it apparently collided with another dolphin minutes before the show took place, officials said.
The $5 million limit on the state's liability for the deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse is unfair in the eyes of at least one state legislator, but a top state senator says he's skeptical of raising the cap.
State Rep. Ed DeLaney, D-Indianapolis, told The Indianapolis Star (http://bit.ly/qwL47h ) for a Friday story that he plans to introduce legislation that would allow the state fair victims to collect more.
Indiana liability cap in stage collapse questioned - Chicago Tribune
Another lawsuit filed in Ind. fair stage collapse - Chicago Tribune
Mama Mia! Word is out that reality couple Bill Rancic of "Apprentice" fame and wife Giuliana of the E! network will open an Italian restaurant in the spot occupied by Ben Pao at 52 W. Illinois St. in River North. The couple, who married in Italy and star in "Giuliana and Bill" on the Style Network, will work with Lettuce Entertain You's Melman family, who opened nearby Hub 51 and Paris Club, the Tribune reports . RedEye scopes out the Rancic's celebrity competition in Chicago.
Fort Wayne woman killed when a stage collapsed in strong wind at the Indiana State Fair filed a lawsuit Monday alleging gross negligence and recklessness by the promoters and producers of the concert.
The lawsuit was filed in Marion Superior Court on behalf of the estate of 23-year-old Alina Bigjohny and her parents, Robert and Polly Bigjohny. The Indianapolis Star reported the lawsuit contends fair and concert organizers failed to warn fans waiting for country band Sugarland to perform of an approaching storm. The stage rigging collapsed into the crowd following a 60 to 70 mph wind gust.
Bigjohny was a 2011 Manchester College graduate who was recently hired to teach seventh-grade English in Muncie. She attended the concert with a friend, Jennifer Haskell, who died of her injuries six days after the Aug. 13 collapse that killed seven people.
Another lawsuit filed in Ind. fair stage collapse - Chicago Tribune
Firm details security efforts at fairgrounds accident site - WISH
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The engineering firm overseeing the investigation at the site of the stage rigging collapse at the Indianapolis fairgrounds revealed to a LaPorte court exactly how it is protecting the site and preserving evidence.
Thornton Tomasetti provided the details as part of a hearing prompted by a lawsuit on behalf of one of the accident victims , and LaPorte County Circuit Court Judge Thomas J. Alevizos on Tuesday approved of the protocols in place and issued an injunction ordering the state to continue to comply with the firm’s plans.
The New York firm was hired by the Indiana State Fair Commission hours after the accident. Court records show the group contacted the engineering firm on Aug. 14, the day after the collapse, which has thus far claimed the lives of seven people and injured more than 40 others.
A team from the firm, headed by its Chicago Vice President Scott Nacheman, arrived on site Aug. 15, and by the next day, his team had established a security perimeter around the debris pile. In an affidavit submitted to the LaPorte court, Nacheman explained the security procedures in place.
Firm details security efforts at fairgrounds accident site - WISH
Detour to ‘Victory Road’ - Mansfield News Journal
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Detour to 'Victory Road' - Mansfield News Journal
A year later, Bisard crash still reverberates - Indianapolis Star
A year later, Bisard crash still reverberates - Indianapolis Star
The Bonus: Quadriplegic Chic Kelly just wants enough money to pay for his care - SI.com
When he turns from his computer to introduce himself, after pausing the replay of the previous night's Phillies game, my immediate thought is: This sandy-haired, little-kid-smiling guy looks way too young to have just turned 40.
When he turns from his computer to introduce himself, after pausing the replay of the previous night's Phillies game, my immediate thought is: This sandy-haired, little-kid-smiling guy looks way too young to have just turned 40. "I'm lucky, I guess," he says.
It's a kid's face. It really is. And then, obliviously thinking that he might need some cheering up, I say, "You know the old saying: A man's best decade is his 40s." "Well, I thoroughly enjoyed my 20s and 30s," he answers immediately, with no trace of irony.
Then he offers a knuckle-bump with his left hand, which is his natural greeting to anyone, because while he can move his upper arms, his hands' fingers have been curled, lifeless, for 22 years.
The Bonus: Quadriplegic Chic Kelly just wants enough money to pay for his care - SI.com
USS Indianapolis sunk 66 years ago Saturday - Greene County Daily World
Dr. H. Adrian Rehner's first love was the theater, but long before he came to Bloomfield to help organize a summer theatre, he was a player in one of the most tragic productions of the 20th century.
The stage for the huge production was the vast Pacific Ocean, the actors consisted of more than a thousand U.S. Navy Seamen and Marines, the scenes covered a hundred miles of open sea with men helplessly drifting on any floating device they could grasp.
The anniversary of that event will soon be remembered by the few living who survived the catastrophic disaster of the sinking of the cruiser ship USS Indianapolis on July 30, 1945 shortly before the end of World War II.
SIC Signalman Adrian Rehner was one of the seamen aboard that ship when it was blasted by a two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine. The ship sank in 12 minutes.
USS Indianapolis sunk 66 years ago Saturday - Greene County Daily World
Hatch attempting instrument approach before crash - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Dr. Stephen Hatch was attempting an instrument approach to Charlevoix (Mich.) Municipal Airport when his single-engine plane crashed last month, killing him and his wife and critically injuring his son, investigators said in a preliminary report.
The Hatches' Beechcraft A36 was headed for Boyne Falls, Mich., June 24, but was diverted to Charlevoix for an unknown reason, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman previously said. The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report did not say why the plane diverted.
Indianapolis-based flight instructor Preston Wulfenspein said the GPS approach Hatch was making while trying to land is used to guide pilots to 500 feet above the ground. Wulfenspein said his speculation was based on the preliminary report.
According to the report, Hatch told the Charlevoix airport that he was executing the GPS approach to the 4,550-foot runway. The preliminary report did not give a cause of the crash.
Hatch attempting instrument approach before crash - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Indiana, feds square off over Medicaid, Planned Parenthood - Muncie Star Press
INDIANAPOLIS Before he signed a bill cutting Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding last month, Gov. Mitch Daniels said the group could keep the funds if it gave up providing abortions. If Planned Parenthood wanted Medicaid money, in other words, it would have to play by Indiana's rules.
Federal Medicaid officials rejected Indiana's Medicaid plan because its provision to strip funding from Planned Parenthood violates federal law.
Indiana, feds square off over Medicaid, Planned Parenthood - Muncie Star Press