Dan Coats

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tea party advocates in Indiana who aced their first test by ousting U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in May likely face a much tougher final exam Tuesday as they work to push Republican Richard Mourdock to victory. Volunteers with...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Richard Mourdock is making his final pitch for the Indiana Senate seat held by the GOP for nearly four decades by telling voters he would be the 51st vote to repeal the federal health care overhaul. Mourdock and...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Hoosier Democrats are hoping Friday's love fest with former President Bill Clinton at North Central High School in Indianapolis will be enough to push at least one of their top-ticket candidates to victory in a traditionally...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana's 2012 election cycle has highlighted a truism in politics: Money matters. Indiana's gubernatorial races have always been pricey battles, edging above $31 million in combined spending in 2004. But Indiana's Senate race joined the...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Campaign cash from outside political groups is flooding into conservative states with close Senate races like Indiana, Arizona and Montana, where residents are more accustomed to local news promos between football games than...

Reaction is mixed over the Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Obama's healthcare law: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels: “The immediate implications for Indiana are a huge increase in health insurance rates, especially for young people,...

As recently as last week, U. S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, speaking in Niles, talked about the need to re-duce the country’s depend-ence on foreign oil and re-ferred to the proposed $7 billion Keystone XL Can-ada-to-Texas pipeline project as a...

So far, the focus in this year's U.S. Senate race in Indiana has been almost entirely on the Republican primary between incumbent Sen. Richard Lugar and state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, the Democratic Senate candidate who didn'...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Half-truths and exaggerations are quickly replacing the legislative issues that dominated the General Assembly session as Indiana's election "silly season" begins in earnest. The most egregious examples are coming out of the...

SOUTH BEND – President Obama announced a health insurance reform plan at midday Friday to appease Catholic church and religious-affiliated employers opposed to birth control use. Local religious leaders said the president's resolution is a step in...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's two U.S. senators are lobbying the Obama administration for emergency aid for businesses and residents in southern Indiana. Senators Dan Coats and Richard Lugar sent President Barack Obama a letter Monday seeking aid...

Although Marla Theocharides has won custody of her children in an American court, she sees little hope that her now-ex-husband will be forced anytime soon to return the children to the country in which they were born. So far, the court in Cyprus has...