Lafayette, IN News

Earlier this month, the Indiana Department of Transportation requested that state legislators rank the importance of local road projects.

Some neighbors of Tate & Lyle's north Lafayette plant liked what they heard in a special public meeting Wednesday to discuss the company's proposal for equipment to reduce emissions and to increase capacity.

Updated 6/15/2005 at 9:00:57 The state Department of Transportation is ready to start the design phase of the Hoosier Heartland Corridor.

A 24-year-old Indiana man is fighting for his life after he was shot while walking away from an ATM.

Purdue University awarded Fieldale Farms Chairman and CEO Joe S. Hatfield with an honorary degree at its 195th commencement service recently.

By Alysha Daytner Summer Editor The recent measles outbreak that began with an infant's visit to a Romanian orphanage has spread.

West Lafayette, Indiana-- Researchers have discovered that the brains of stutterers process words differently, even when they are not speaking.

Children attending after-school programs at Lafayette's Hanna Community Center will tackle math and science problems on new computers when classes resume this fall.

More than a million Americans are believed to be living with the virus that causes AIDS, the government said Monday in a report that reflects both a victory and a failure at combatting the disease.

A Tippecanoe County family is breaking new legal ground by attempting to use Indiana's nuisance law to have a convicted sex-offender evicted from their neighborhood.

Against the advice of his therapist, Dean Sliger has been keeping up with media coverage of the aftermath of the beating death if Aiyana Gauvin, the younger half-sister of Sliger's daughter.

By Kaitlin Vanderpool Summer Reporter Every town has its story. But there is more to Greater Lafayette history than Purdue University.

TMORENCI, Ind. -- When a west wind blows, Linda and Perry Trader's southern Indiana home is bathed in the stench of a nearby hog farm -- a stink so foul they often retreat indoors, abandoning their backyard and ...

A house under construction burned to the ground about two miles east of here late Friday morning.

The American Diabetes Association held a kick-off celebration at the Snowbear Frozen Custard store in West Lafayette last night.

Temperatures have climbed into the 90s so that means its time to head for the pool.

Karla Ross is convinced that if Judge Loretta Rush had known that Christian Gauvin and his daughter, Aiyana, had moved in with Michelle Urbanus in February 2004, she would have ordered a background check on the ...

Lafayette Neighborhood Housing Services has three homes to feature this year. Volunteers furnish and decorate the houses using a limited budget.

By Jon Nyatawa Summer Reporter Two families will receive new homes in the fall, but the introduction of the families won't take place until 8:30 a.m. on Saturday.

People in Greater Lafayette are survivors. They skillfully navigate Sagamore Parkway and Indiana 26 during rush hour.

Recent figures reported that 60% of Indiana schools have met goals for yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Ah, the thrill of flying. "I have never been in anything like this," said Christine Murdock, who lives on the east side of South Bend.

Sisters Shynika and Cheryl Barron recently moved to Lafayette from Chicago. The girls said they want to make friends in their new city.

Community leaders are stepping in to help keep a large manufacturing plant from sitting empty.

St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 2421 S. Hanna St., is scheduled to install the Rev.

About 40 friends and relatives of a West Lafayette man who committed suicide attended an Evening of Healing at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Thursday.

Five players from Indiana high schools were selected in Tuesday's major league baseball draft, with Joshua Lindblom, a right-handed pitcher from Lafayette Harrison chosen by the Houston Astros in the third ...

Prosecutors charged 56-year-old Connie Smith with a felony count of assisting a criminal Tuesday.

Almost 50 volunteers came together recently to install playground equipment at Glen Acres Elementary School.

One of Purdue's most promising outreach programs is changing its entrance guidelines.

Three players drove in 2 runs each to give the West Lafayette baseball team an 8-6 win over Maconaquah in the sectional title game at Twin Lakes.

Frog Follies has marked its debut to rave reviews, helping lure shoppers and tourists to downtown Lafayette and West Lafayette already this young summer.

Purdue words and South African images have merged this summer. Poetry produced in 2002 by the Haraka Writers, a performing ensemble of Purdue's Black Cultural Center, is being placed alongside the works that ...

Call it Christos: The Next Generation. Christos New City Grill, the popular Lafayette-West Lafayette restaurant franchise, was established in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Mike and Maria Christos.

Cindy Svajgr beamed as she gazed down Sixth and Cincinnati streets Saturday. The temperature was 83 degrees, it wasn't raining and hundreds of families were having fun and gobbling down 1,000 pounds of sliced ...