INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana residents set their clocks forward today with most of the rest of the nation – and some researchers say those longer days come with a hidden price tag.
The time change is welcomed by businesses that hope to lure in customers as the sun stays out longer, but a University of California, Santa Barbara, study found that Hoosier households could pay $8.6 million more annually in electricity bills, in part due to higher air conditioning costs on hot afternoons.
Authorities suspect that carbon monoxide poisoning killed a father and son in Noblesville.
The Hamilton County sheriff’s department says the bodies of 75-year-old Vincent Druding and 49-year-old Michael Druding were found Friday. A family member found them in separate apartments in a garage.
About 170 members of the Indiana National Guard’s 1613th Engineering Support Company returned Friday from a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan.
The LaPorte-based unit winterized bases in Afghanistan to provide shelter for troops and also worked to improve roads.
An Ohio woman who had her 97-year-old mother and 200 animals taken from her filthy Trumbull County home has been prohibited from having pets for five years.
Kathy Witzman, 59, was put on probation Thursday on her guilty plea to misdemeanor animal cruelty.
Authorities reported unhealthy home conditions including a urine stench, underfed dogs lacking water and some kept in backyard cages.
The woman’s mother was covered in filth and underfed. She was taken to a hospital and then a nursing home.
A Cleveland man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for putting his young daughter in a clothes dryer and turning it on to teach her not to go inside the machine.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Joan Synenberg sentenced 36-year-old Steve McClairn on Thursday on his guilty plea to child endangering, abduction and domestic violence.
McClairn told the judge he put the 7-year-old girl into the dryer Dec. 19 not as punishment, but to teach her never to climb into the machine.
The community organizing group ACORN is not expressly prohibited from returning to Ohio under a settlement reached in a lawsuit that claimed it used fraudulent voter registration practices.
But a lawyer for a group that filed the lawsuit says it would fight in court any attempt by ACORN to reopen its doors in Ohio for voter registration purposes because “it’s inherent in the nature of their practice to submit unlawful voter registration forms.”