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Texans rookie Lonnie Johnson Jr. is already making big plays on the field but the Indiana native is making an even bigger play off of it. The cornerback announced that he wanted to cover the funeral costs of a teenager from his hometown of Gary, Indiana who tragically died in a drowning accident. 14-year-old Curtis Walton, Jr. a football […]

A white police officer in Indiana has been charged with battery, false informing and perjury after hitting a Black high school student and lying about it. Robert Lawson, 43, was caught on video punching a 17-year-old teen at Shortridge Highschool, yelling, “You want to go to jail? You want to go to jail? Let’s go!” […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are again urging people to stop vaping until they figure out why some are coming down with serious breathing illnesses. Officials on Friday said they had identified 450 possible illnesses, including at least three deaths, in 33 states. The count includes a newly reported death in Indiana. Health […]

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MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A Labor Day cookout ended in tragedy when a boat ferrying seven family members capsized on a central Indiana river, killing four people, including a 6-year-old boy, and leaving one man missing, authorities said Tuesday. It is unclear what caused the flat-bottomed boat to capsize Monday night on the White River […]

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — There are “a million things” the cruise company could have done to prevent the death of an 18-month-old Indiana girl who fell to her death from an open window on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico, the toddler’s mother said in an interview broadcast Monday. Speaking publicly for the first time since […]

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A white Indiana police officer who fatally shot a black man, sparking protests and roiling the presidential campaign of South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, has resigned, the local police union announced Monday. The Fraternal Order of Police said Sgt. Ryan O’Neill’s resignation from the South Bend Police Department was due […]

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The family of a 54-year-old black man fatally shot by a white officer is suing the officer and the city of South Bend, Indiana, where Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (BOO’-tuh-juhj) is mayor. Eric Logan’s relatives filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court. It accuses Sgt. Ryan O’Neill of using […]

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg faced criticism Sunday from angry residents of South Bend, Indiana, at an emotional town hall meeting a week after a white police officer fatally shot a black man in the city where he is mayor. Buttigieg (BOO’-tuh-juhj) said he would call for an outside investigation […]

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A lawyer for the family of a black man fatally shot by a white police officer says Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s (BOO’-tuh-juhj) mayoral administration hasn’t been aggressive enough in overseeing the South Bend, Indiana, police department. Attorney Brian Coffman says the city’s had an “acceptance” of misconduct by police officers long […]

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A police officer fatally shot a black man in South Bend, Indiana, leading Mayor Pete Buttigieg to return home early from a presidential campaign trip to address the public and reach out to community members. The shooting happened early Sunday after someone called police to report a suspicious person going through cars, […]

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An Indiana teen was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Wednesday for the fatal stabbing of her mother two years ago. Chastinea Reeves, now 17, was 15 when she murdered her mother, Jamie Garnett — stabbing her 60 times at their Gary home. She was sentenced this week by a Lake Superior Court judge as part […]

Roland Martin feels like there are about 97 Democrats running for president. He talks to one presidential hopeful who believes that Black America will be able to see his heart and believe in his policies. Pete Buttigieg, or “mayor Pete” is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He believes that being Mayor, as opposed to […]