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The tragic death of an idealistic academic has brought to light an existential struggle within the halls of one of the country’s most powerful education foundations, the Liberty Fund.

After endless complaints of arbitrary and unpredictable rule enforcement, economic unfairness, and lax oversight, the question of what it would take to topple the NCAA seems almost hopelessly quixotic.

As John Mellencamp turns 70, the Indiana icon reflects on a career that has transcended his “Pop Singer” beginnings and now represents what rock and roll was supposed to be all about: doing whatever he wants.

Rebecca Raffle came to Indianapolis from Los Angeles with a story about building a cannabis empire. It was too good to be true.

For a decade, Pattern has built up a fashion industry in Indianapolis. So where are the clothes?

Indy’s most prolific, flamboyant entrepreneur says he’s burned through his fortune of more than $400 million amid lavish spending, a high-profile business failure, and a nasty divorce.

ClusterTruck revamped itself during the pandemic into an extremely busy kitchen.

The forced isolation of the pandemic sparked a surge in deadly overdoses in Indy and around the country. My cousin was one of them.

Good Bones star Mina Hawk has relatable charm in spades, not to mention hammers and nail guns. Can she build on that?

Oreo Jones, Sirius Blvck, and Sedcairn Archives released their first album as 81355 this month.

In an excerpt from Ashley Ford’s new memoir, the Indy-based author visits her imprisoned father and rediscovers the complex man she knew as a child.

The Depression-era Indy 500 champ was banned from the track for his heinous crimes, but his name lives on in unexpected places.

As she opens a new boutique hotel in her home of Fort Wayne, the 82-year-old spiritual leader and retired cofounder of Vera Bradley is proving that ambition never goes out of style.

Christel DeHaan built her schools like businesses so they could thrive as nonprofits, helping them survive an inevitable hardship: her recent death.

Greenwood teen Zoe LaVerne’s rise to TikTok stardom has been a soap opera of adolescent rebellion and tears. Maybe that’s why 17 million people are watching.