Indiana’s Attorney General Todd Rokita on Dec. 29 announced the state has reached a $20 million settlement with Google over the big tech giant’s alleged deceptive location tracking practices.

EVANSVILLE, Ind.—An August house explosion that killed three people in a southern Indiana neighborhood has been ruled accidental after investigators traced the blast to a leaking natural gas line in the home’s basement, officials said Wednesday.

INDIANAPOLIS—A man convicted of shooting two southern Indiana judges during a fight outside an Indianapolis fast food restaurant in 2019 was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison.

RICHMOND, Ind.—An eastern Indiana police officer who was shot in the head during a traffic stop in August has died more than two weeks after she was removed from life support, authorities said.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—Two freshman members of the Indiana State University football team were among the three students who were killed in a weekend crash, officials said Monday.

EVANSVILLE, Ind.—Three people were killed Wednesday when a house exploded in the southern Indiana city of Evansville, authorities said.

Authorities in Indiana were notified on Aug. 5 that the human remains of a woman recovered in a rural area of Miami County last month are those of Karena McClerkin, an 18-year-old who went missing years ago.

GREENWOOD, Ind.—A gunman who shot five people at a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall, killing three of them before a shopper shot and killed him, was a 20-year-old local man who was apparently facing eviction, authorities said Monday.

GARY, Ind.—Gunfire during a July Fourth block party in northwestern Indiana left three people dead and seven wounded early Tuesday, police said.

Two more states announced their first probable cases of monkeypox Saturday.

Public health officials in Indiana are urging people to take safety precautions after a large fire at a Walmart distribution center in Plainfield this week released thick smoke containing high levels of fine particulate material.

INDIANAPOLIS—A teenager who scaled a tree at an Indianapolis park to rescue a cat he spotted high up in the branches ended up stuck himself and in need of rescue, officials said.