While Indiana’s 2018 decrease in its infant mortality rate was the biggest in six years, the news isn’t quite as good as it sounds. Newly released data from the Indiana Department of Health show the infant mortality rate in 2018 dropped from 7.3 the previous year to 6.8 per 1,000 babies ...
Gov. Eric Holcomb teased prior to his State of the State address last week that he would announce something special about teacher pay in Indiana, a huge issue brought to a head at November’s Red for Ed Day, when thousands of Hoosier teachers showed up at the Statehouse to make their case for ...
A small news item out of Evansville recently announced the naming of the new Indiana state poet laureate. When I think of the term “poet laureate,” I think of Robert Frost, who had the title of United States Poet Laureate in 1958 and 1959, when I was a young boy and had already become ...
The premise is that female sports are endangered because of the new reality that females may be forced to compete against biological males who claim to be female — an unfair biological advantage. A House bill introduced by Rep. Christy Stutzman, R-49 (wife of former 3rd District Congressman ...
When News-Sentinel.com joins the chorus of newspapers and news web sites across Indiana and the nation in encouraging voters to exercise their right to vote, it is with pride in our country’s freedom and our desire to keep it that we make such an admonition to an increasingly apathetic ...
In August, News-Sentinel.com wrote that the Indiana Department of Child Services had just published a report showing deaths from child neglect and abuse increased to 65 during fiscal year 2017, which ended on June 30, 2017. Now a new state DCS report has been released showing 65 Indiana ...
In August, my wife Beth and I drove to the French Lick Resort in southern Indiana, two hours south of Indianapolis, to see the historic domed lobby of the West Baden Springs Hotel and the sites of the sulfur springs there and at the French Lick Springs Hotel. During our weekend stay, we drove ...
As someone who has deployed to foreign soil, I know how important it is to have a commander in chief that has your back. President Trump has communicated in the last few days to Americans across the world: “I have your back.” Americans are safer today because Iran’s Gen. Qassem ...
Is Gov. Eric Holcomb changing his tune on the urgency of increasing teachers’ pay? More than a month ago Holcomb said that while he supported getting the state’s teachers to salary levels that ranked in the top three in the Midwest, that teacher pay couldn’t be addressed in the 2020 ...
The reaction was immediate and hostile by Democrats following President Trump’s authorization of a drone airstrike that killed Iran’s top military leader, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a terrorist responsible for the deaths of American troops fighting in the Middle East. Fort Wayne was the ...
We don’t know all the details of the crash on New Year’s Eve in Mishawaka in which a minivan driven by a northern Indiana woman plunged into a retention pond, killing two of her three children. The crash is still under investigation. All we know is that Mishawaka firefighters that ...
In November News-Sentinel.com wrote about a new Safe Haven Baby Box being added in Angola that allows people to anonymously leave newborns in hospitals and fire stations. That increased the number of baby boxes in the state to 16 at that time. We also pointed out that Allen County had only one ...
The 2019 Indiana General Assembly passed hundreds of new laws, signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb, most of which took effect on July 1. But there are also a few that became effective Wednesday to start the new year. The laws enacted last summer received the most attention, among them: * Senate ...
While some employees think they are being responsible or strong by “sucking it up” and going to work even though they feel lousy, the truth is, they may be spreading their illness to others, resulting in lower productivity at their workplace. And a recent Ball State University study goes ...
On Christmas evening, some of my family gathered around the TV to watch one of my favorite actors, Jimmy Stewart, in a charming Christmas movie. And it wasn’t “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Many have likely never heard of “Mr. Krueger’s Christmas.” I read about the film in an essay on ...
A report released Dec. 17 showed a decline in capital punishment in the U.S. for the fifth straight year with only a few states carrying out executions. Although there have been more than 1,500 executions in the 42 years since the death penalty resumed in the country in 1977, they are now rare ...
In signing a $1.4 trillion spending bill late last week, President Trump approved raising the federal legal minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21. The Tobacco to 21 measure was included in the spending package that will put off the possibility of a government shutdown until next ...
Most major retailers and shippers have anticipated that online Christmas shopping would be at such a high level this holiday season it would put a tremendous strain on package delivery systems. Some forecasts have estimated online holiday sales will top $100 billion this year, and UPS, FedEx ...
There is nothing quite like the magic of Christmas morning. Today, many of us will be all too happy to be awakened all too early by excited children to begin a day of celebration marked by exchanging gifts and sharing food with friends and family. Many among us will celebrate by enjoying our ...
King David had descendants, too numerous to name. One of them was Joseph, who would gain lasting fame. Joseph was engaged to a woman named Mary. God said to her one night, “My child, you shall carry.” All that Joseph wanted was to do that which was right. He considered leaving ...