Facebook, Google and Twitter are being sued by the families of three victims slain in the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub for allegedly providing “material support” to the Islamic State.
If some gun-rights advocates have their way, Indiana may become the next state to let people carry handguns without a license — but area lawmakers and law enforcement officials still have plenty of unanswered questions about the proposal.
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) managers wanted to fire a hospital director for misconduct, but wound up paying him $85,000 instead to resign “from federal service voluntarily, completely and irrevocably” — then hired him back anyway, but let him keep the money.
Three candidates under consideration are Pete Hegseth, former CEO of Concerned Veterans of America, former GOP Sen. Scott Brown, and Navy Adm. Michelle Howard.
The second-in-command at the Lake County Sheriff’s Department has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a bribery case in which the sheriff and a tow truck operator also are charged.
The Evansville Courier and Press reports the bill would allow DNA samples collected after June 30, 2017, to be uploaded to the existing database. Vanderburgh County prosecutor Nicholas Hermann says DNA is useful in investigating and prosecuting cases and that the bill will help Indiana catch up technologically.
