Axl Rose: “I’m a %$@# Hoosier rocker, too!”

“He was angry and hurt that his home state had not embraced him,” says IU rock professor Glenn Gass.
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Under the Gun: Tracking One Deadly Crime Spree

Nathan Trapuzzano was set to celebrate his one-year wedding anniversary with wife Jennifer a month after the shooting. She gave birth to their child weeks later.
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Tunnel Vision: What Lies Beneath Indy

Mining the city’s first-ever deep tunnel and the largest public-works project in Indianapolis’s history has required the help of experts from all over the country.

The Hoosierist Goes To Gen Con

There are plenty of games at Gen Con, and plenty of gamers to play them—49,000 last year and probably more for this edition, which...
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Q&A: Will Carroll, Sports Journalist and Injury Expert

"Kids and their parents are thinking they’re the next football star or the next Venus Williams or Tiger Woods, so they play the same sport year-round, and they don’t get rest."
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Hoosiers Represent at Inaugural Parade

Walking around downtown Washington, D.C., on Monday morning amidst the crowds of inauguration-goers, it was difficult to tell who hailed from where—and then there was the man in a Purdue hat who said “Boiler Up!” with a big smile in response to my companion who initiated that exchange. Yet I learned ahead of time that there would be more than a few other Hoosiers in attendance, including performers in the parade after the official swearing in of President Barack Obama:
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Hoosier Hall of Fame: In Defense of a Few Inductees

Does Shelley Long belong in our Hoosier Hall of Fame? Does John Dillinger? Let us make the case.

Photos: Indianapolis 500 Pole Day 2015

Ed Carpenter and crew pick up the pieces after a Pole Day crash, Tony Kanaan gets in some family time, A.J. Foyt makes an appearance—plus more images from Sunday's qualifying at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

‘Leave Indiana’s Civil Rights Law Alone,’ Says Conservative Activist Patrick Mangan

“The main problem with this [legislation],” says Mangan, “is that it’s creating legal tension between legitimate constitutional and human rights versus behavior-based groups that want to achieve a special status in the law.”

Get To Know Jordan Ryan, City-County Archivist

Greenlawn Cemetery, the city’s first public burial ground, has been carved up, built upon, and paved over throughout the decades. Recently, hundreds of its occupants were disinterred to make way for the Henry Street bridge project. Ryan is a key figure helping the city navigate the legal, historical, and ethical minefield that disturbing sacred ground creates.