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Advocacy group sets up second contraception vending machine in Indiana

Samantha Horton

The vending machine is a part of the Indiana Task FORCE’s effort to provide Hoosiers easy access to reproductive care.

Students at Vinton Elementary School in Lafayette will only attend school Monday through Thursday this year. Vinton is the first school in the state to switch to a four-day school week.

Indiana elementary school first in state to test out four-day school week

Kirsten Adair

Vinton Elementary School Principal Cindy Preston said administrators began to consider a four-day school week after staff expressed their support through a survey. The school surveyed parents next.

Second-grade teacher Morgan O'Dell holds her fingers to her throat to show her students how to feel whether they are using their vocal cords at Thomas Miller Elementary School in Lafayette on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2023.

Indiana will mandate the science of reading. Here's how one school is changing

Indiana is trying to overhaul how children are taught to read with a statewide mandate to follow the latest scientific research. But experts say that for change to take hold, it will take work — and buy in — from educators around the state.

Purdue student charged with murder in roommate’s killing

Associated Press

Ji Min Sha, a 22-year-old cybersecurity major from Seoul, South Korea, faces one count of murder in the killing of Varun Manish Chheda, 20, of Indianapolis.

Woman critical, suspect dead after Indiana plant shooting

Associated Press

After finding Mindy Donovan wounded, officers discovered the shooting suspect dead near a pond on the east side of the automotive plant’s property about 60 miles north of Indianapolis.