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Mass transit in Indy is about to look a whole lot different.

The city’s most legendary strip, minus the hangover.

Then there’s the house, the most visible manifestation of Steve Hilbert’s megabucks lifestyle. Built over several years by Hilbert and his ex-wife, it embodies the sort of wealth that even some nations would envy.

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

If the Trump-era Republican Party experienced a public, messy identity crisis, somebody forgot to tell its Indiana chapter. Like it or not, they’re remarkably unified—and set up to continue an unprecedented electoral winning streak.

If confirmed by the Senate, the former South Bend mayor and Democratic presidential candidate will be the first openly gay Cabinet official in the nation’s history.

Editor's Note, Nov. 7, 2012: Despite outspending his opponent, Glenda Ritz, by a 10-to-1 margin, Tony Bennett was unseated as Indiana's schools czar on Nov. 6. Here, our September 2011 feature profile on the man who catalyzed a lot of visceral responses—both for and against him

For three decades, Indiana’s most disturbing serial killer flew under the true crime radar. In 1996, at least a dozen bodies were found at a Westfield estate belonging to wealthy businessman Herb Baumeister, but it wasn’t until recently that podcasters and filmmakers caught wind of the case. Will national attention heal the scars left by this tragedy? Or will the current obsession with murder turn a vicious Indy predator into a pop culture star?

Some might see a contradiction there. Not Whitley Yates.