John Broden

By the time Travis Thieneman discovered that his girlfriend was pregnant with his child, the two had already split up. The 26-year-old southern Indiana man says he was worried enough about their infant that he called the state’s child abuse hot...

A growing number of those involved in protecting Indiana’s children are alarmed at the quiet revamping of the state’s Department of Child Services — changes they say too often result in a reluctance to act appropriately on reports of...

The online photos of Indiana children waiting to be adopted are heartbreaking, the brief descriptions containing clues to the difficulties these wards of the state have already known. “Toby just learned how to swim, and would gladly take your...

At 3:30 in the morning of April 4, two South Bend police officers responded to a neighbor's call about a young boy standing outside, yelling for his mother. "Upon arrival at the address I observed that the front door to the residence was open and not...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A high school tennis player who was crippled in last summer's deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair testified Thursday as legislators considered whether to double the amount the state is paying for victims. The...

SOUTH BEND -- County Prosecutor Michael Dvorak said Thursday that the investigation into the presence of fake signatures on ballot petitions in St. Joseph County remains ongoing but that he expects a charging decision soon. Dvorak said he and a deputy...

INDIANAPOLIS – State democrats want an investigation after $300 million that was intended for the general fund was instead sat somewhere else unnoticed for years. "I don't know a better way to start than to say Christmas came early," said...

SOUTH BEND – Even before the current petition scandal, longtime Democratic Party Chairman Owen "Butch" Morgan's grip on the levers of power in county politics already had begun to slip. In May of 2010, John Botich, his choice to replace outgoing...

A day after St. Joseph County's Democratic Party chairman resigned, he's still not talking to reporters. But what’s next for the county’s Democratic Party is becoming clearer.  This, as prosecutors are investigating whether dozens of...

SOUTH BEND — The Republican member of the Board of Voter Registration worked on the four days in early 2008 when a number of suspected fake petition pages passed through the county voter registration office, according to county payroll records. The...

On Friday night the St. Joseph County Democratic Party selected state senator John Broden to replace Butch Morgan. You might remember Morgan resigned earlier this month amid an investigation of possible election fraud in the 2008 Indiana Primary....