Usually, younger Americans vote well under their proportion of the population. In Indiana, 42 percent of young voters participated in the 2020 election, up from 35 percent in 2016.

The annual Little 500 draws tens of thousands of visitors each spring to party and watch the race, in which four-member teams compete on a quarter-mile track.

Half a dozen faculty at Indiana University said they're bracing for striking graduate student workers to lose their positions. They said their concerns stem from information they've learned at closed-door meetings with the Provost and other campus administrators.

Around 1,000 graduate workers have been on strike for almost a week now. It comes after the university administration refused to officially recognize the union.

Around 1,000 graduate student workers at Indiana Universitys Bloomington campus are on strike to demand the school recognize them as a union. But the school says it has no intention of bargaining with the group and no legal obligation to do so.

The Bloomington Police Department is asking for public help in identifying a suspect who vandalized the Islamic Center of Bloomington early Monday morning.

When the pandemic struck the U.S. around spring break of 2020, it set off an exodus in college towns as classrooms went virtual almost overnight. The sudden departure of tens of thousands of students made it difficult to count them in the census, which began at almost the same time.

The EPA said monitoring will continue at the three sites, which were contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

Among other things, the coalition wants Duke Energy to retire its Gibson coal plant by 2030, stop burning coal at its Edwardsport plant and replace that energy through renewables and energy efficiency.

Responsibilty for renaming rests with the IU Naming Committee and the IU Board of Trustees and with Bloomington Plan Commission, which will hear the proposed names and take public comment at a hearing, to be scheduled later.