Interior Policy

MISHAWAKA -- What the senior and disabled tenants like here in the River View 500 building, 113 units that rise along Lincoln Way, is their sense of freedom. They can soak up views of the St. Joseph River and nearby parks or venture a block or two west...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana attorney general's office is warning homeowners about a scam that says a new federal program will pay their utility bills in exchange for personal information. Attorney General Greg Zoeller says people have called...

WRENTHAM, Mass. (AP) — The state has stepped in to reverse a decision by a Massachusetts town's housing authority that barred residents from flying U.S. flags outside their homes. A spokesman for the state Department of Housing and Community...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals says state officials can take away welfare benefits under a five-year federal limit even if recipients still qualify for cash assistance under state law. The ruling released Wednesday overturns...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former Indiana welfare worker has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for creating bogus debit cards he and a co-worker used to steal $185,000 from needy residents' state benefit accounts. Thirty-seven-year-old...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney says a star student at a central Indiana high school who was stuck in Mexico over an immigration technicality is returning home in time for her graduation. Indianapolis attorney Sarah Moshe (MOW'-shuh) says 18-year-...

De'Arrick Gandy has lived with violence around him most of his life. "I've seen people get shot at and the fights in the neighborhood," he said. "It's tough seeing people like that get hurt." Despite what he may have seen the night before, though, Gandy...

Housing officials in Elkhart say residents of a bedbug-infested apartment complex could face eviction if they fail to cooperate with efforts to eradicate the pests. More than a dozen units at the Waterfall Highrise complex in Elkhart are infested with...

Two officers were conducting a traffic stop in the 1700 block of California Street at about 11:30 p.m. Monday when they heard gunshots ring out. Within minutes of the shots, a local resident spotted the patrol officers and gave them a description of...

The Elkhart Housing Authority is working to get rid of bedbugs in more than a dozen apartments at the Waterfall High Rise, a complex for low-income families, but officials say tenets need to do their part. People living there are now required to move...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republicans set out a bold conservative agenda after taking control of state capitols across the Midwest and South in the last general election. They wanted to cut taxes and spending, put new limits on labor unions,...

SOUTH BEND -- Police on Monday continued to investigate an alleged assault that occurred outside an upscale restaurant that had been scheduled to open over the weekend. A 21-year-old South Bend man, employed as a cook at Passport Woodfire Grill, 1290 E....