Once an attraction to international travelers, Washington County Tourism Office shifts marketing toward regional travelers.

A coronavirus mortality model projects that nearly 135,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August. The data has been revised and is now almost double previous projections, pushing the death toll in the US to over 200,000 by August.

The southwestern Utah health district counted seven new confirmed cases of the new coronavirus on Wednesday.

A GoFundMe page aims to match the nearly $600,000 that Tia Stokes' non-profit dance group Kalamity has raised for people facing real-life calamities.

ProjectProtect has expanded its volunteer opportunities into Southern Utah.

IT IS TIME that political interference with the police and the CPS ceased. One might have thought that after the ludicrous Operation Midland , the lesson had been learned.

Football Helmet companies will have tight deadlines to recondition, recertify and redistribute helmets needed for youth and high school programs.

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh's proposal on rules for college players thinking NFL could help reduce talent base at programs like Ohio State, Alabama.

Local officials say the community is shocked that racism could have fueled the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.

Indianapolis' nonprofit arts sector supports about 30,000 jobs. The closures forced by coronavirus are causing damage to theaters, artists and more.

Volunteers serve as "citizen archivists" to help make their collections more accessible to the public.

We need to educate ourselves and then trust the process the framers' included in the Constitution, a letter to the editor says.

We have not kept up, and we are losing a generation of teachers.

Keeping him in office prevents the left from destroying America with their socialistic ideology, a letter to the editor says.

It was clear from the beginning it was going to be totally partisan, yet the hatred for Trump drove them on, a letter to the editor says

For too long, the health of women has been controlled by legislatures that are majority male or biased by their own religious beliefs, a letter says.

Many of these hard-working people do not qualify for unemployment benefits because they are considered independent contractors, a letter says.

The protest was in response to two fatal police involved shootings that happened Wednesday, May 6, 2020 and in the early morning hours of Thursday, May 7, 2020.

A statistical analysis of Indianapolis' homicides shows that young black males are four times more likely than others to be victims of homicide.

The goal of the project is to peel back the layers of violence and explain why it is occurring.

Dreasjon Reed, 21, was shot and killed following an Indianapolis police pursuit that was broadcast in part on Facebook Live.

Providence has dominated the series with Butler,12-4

Jordan Tucker is second Butler player to announce decision to leave this offseason.

Construction projects will temporarily close the intersections to traffic.

Some ethics experts say Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard's push for coronavirus testing at Indianapolis lab Aria Diagnostics raises flags.

As of Friday, the province said there were 13 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 12 of the new cases found in La Loche.

Interested in waiving the green flag at an Indy 500 practice, and looking to stay busy during the Month of May? IndyCar and IMS have a solution.

A long-stalled push to eliminate gerrymandering suddenly enjoys some momentum.

Look inside this 1950s modern home at 6474 Meridian St.

Bulldogs have not been able to go over the sectional hump since 2009.

"We've always disinfected oral, nasal cavities that would be exposed to that exhale procedure," said Eric Bell, a funeral director in Pittsboro, Ind.

The school district provided free grab-and-go breakfasts and lunches for students Monday. It will do it again next Monday (March 23).

The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel invites the class of 2020 from across Central Indiana to a prom this August.

A look at where locals land on new national lists

Trayce Jackson-Davis and Keion Brooks are considered among the nation's best players in the 2020 class

Key players at IU: Mental health providers battle depression among athletes

This week, PrepVolleyball.com released its Class of 2020 recruiting rankings. The Hoosiers came in at No. 15 — a program best.

IndyStar high school sports Insider Kyle Neddenriep caught up with outgoing IHSAA commissioner Bobby Cox.

While McCulley became a key part of Lawrence North's run in basketball, there is no doubt that his collegiate future is in football.

Carmel and IU grad Sage Steele will co-host and star athletes like Drew Brees and Venus Williams will announce winners during the online broadcast.

he idea for a protest that drew a few hundred people to the governor's residence Saturday started at high school teacher Andy Lyon's kitchen table.

Indiana has the highest death rate among states that are reopening. One widely cited model predicts big rise as Holcomb sends Hoosiers back to work

They say it takes three years to evaluate a draft class. How does the Colts 2017 class look three years later?

Colts boast enviable depth at multiple spots.

"Every team in this league has holes."

  Christi Gibson June 5, 2017 A group of Iowans gathered at Capitol Square in Des Moines to show their unwavering support of President Trump’s policies & raise awareness for the liberal & biased reporting by the Des Moines Register. Signs, banners, American flags, & patriotic phrases were well received […]

Christi Gibson June 28, 2017 DES MOINES- With health insurance premiums on the rise and deductibles skyrocketing, not to mention the majority of insurance companies in Iowa abandoning the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), Iowans are growing increasingly concerned about healthcare for themselves and their family members. The impending vote on […]

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Washington teeters on the brink. If there is no agreement on a budget by midnight on Friday, the federal government will shut down. While cops and soldiers, air traffic controllers and others deemed essential won't down tools this is serious, at least according to the Obama administration. A senior administration official has told us loans to small businesses and home buyers will stop, which will have an impact on an already fragile housing market. Military and civilian workers won't be paid. The lions at the zoo will be fed (and unlike last time their waste should be collected) but the gates won't open to visitors. National parks will close. This is, of course, the most serious, as I am planning a vacation to one of them next week.

I am just back from the Capitol, and talking to people at a Tea Party rally. Their view might be summed up as "bring it on!" They were chanting "Shut it down!" Several made the point that if non-essential parts of the government shut down, they'd be quite happy. If it's not essential, the view is, then the government shouldn't be doing it anyway.

I suspect there will be a deal. There is too much for both sides to lose in the blame game that would follow. But the strength of the Tea Party has already made it hard for their leadership to compromise, and will make selling any deal tough. President Barack Obama and the Democrats don't have quite the same problem but the cuts he has accepted have already upset supporters.

Compromise is a peculiar business, I reflected as I started reading a book called At the Edge of the Precipice, by Robert Remini, the former historian of the US House of Representatives. It is about the 1850 compromise over slavery. He writes that the man at the centre of this, Henry Clay, "understood the importance of compromise... each side must feel that it has gained something that is essential to its interest as the result of the compromise. To achieve that goal each side must surrender something important to the opposing side. Both sides can then claim victory."

His contention is that compromise prevented an early civil war that the North would have lost, having neither leadership nor material to win at that stage. The argument is that it prevented the splitting of the US into two nations and thus was a good move. All history is hindsight, but I am uncertain about praising an agreement on the grounds that it turned out that it came unstuck later with better results. It was hardly the argument at the time. And compromises depend who is at the table. The compromise was between white gentlemen, while the slaves themselves had no say. Perhaps they might have had some thoughts about the value of compromise.

What's this got to do with today's politics? Simply that like Mr Remini, most Americans admire politicians who can behave with dignity and find a way through a difficult problem, by giving and taking. Bipartisanship is one of the highest ideals of US politics. But many of the politicians might question the morality of this. Enough of them might see the matters of practicality and principle at stake as too important to allow the other side to claim any sort of victory.