Indiana

A man lunged toward the teen who used his combat skills and brought him to the ground.

An Indiana shelter shared a touching video of Major making the rounds to get goodbye pats and cuddles from staff before walking out the door with his new family.

An Indiana judge ruled that tacos and burritos are “Mexican-style sandwiches,” allowing Martin Quintana to open his second The Famous Taco location in Fort Wayne despite zoning restrictions.

Sammy Teusch, a fourth grader, died after emotional and physical bullying at school, his father says. "I just want him to never be forgotten."

A North Carolina man, Robert Daniel Shelton, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a 1994 cold rape case in Indiana.

Seven minors, aged between 12 and 17, were injured in a shooting outside a shopping mall in downtown Indianapolis late Saturday night.

The mother of a 5-year-old boy whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in southern Indiana has been arrested after being on the run for two years.

A mother from Indiana was arrested in Los Angeles Friday in connection with the death of her then-5-year-old son, Cairo Jordan.

A central Indiana mother of two died after falling ill on a U.S.-bound flight from the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, according to reports.

Kinsley Murray sang a nearly 2-minute long version of the national anthem while decked out in a patriotic dress and white gloves.

A circus made an unscheduled appearance along an Indiana interstate early Saturday morning after a semi-truck and trailer transporting nearly a dozen animals caught fire.

In a heartwarming incident captured on dashcam video, Officer and Chaplain James Burns of the South Bend Police Department in Indiana assisted a handicapped individual struggling in a winter storm.

“Irsay was unconscious with abnormal breathing (agonal breathing), a weak pulse, and he was cold to the touch," the responding officer wrote in the report.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to intervene in the debate over bathrooms for transgender students, rejecting an appeal from an Indiana public school district.

An Indiana mother recently welcomed her newborn son via surrogacy five years after her three children were killed in a school bus stop car crash. 

New video from police shows the moment a man was rescued after being trapped in his truck under a bridge for six days.

"I went to touch the shoulder and the moment I touched the shoulder, he swung around, he woke up. He was alive."

“Kassy immediately accepted the painted dog puppies and began to nurse and care for them like they were her own," the Potawatomi Zoo in Indiana said.

While these tight-knit communities offer appeal and lifestyle alternatives, a new study examines how safe these towns are for residents.