Ethan Sandweiss

An email from IU Vice President for Research Russ Mumper said the lockdown is the result of a "U.S. Department of Agriculture activity."

Biology department chair Armin Moczek said experiments are being aborted every day during the shutdown, including projects months in the testing.

To pass on its first reading, a county ordinance requires unanimous approval. The vote failed five to one, so it’ll come up again at the next council meeting for a simple majority vote.

Indiana University is restoring access to several biology labs that were locked down due to a USDA inspection into the lab of professor Roger Innes. But offices, equipment and freezers used by other researchers are still off limits.

One in every 739 Indiana housing units went through a foreclosure in the first quarter of 2026.

The investigation and shutdown drew considerable attention because of Professor Roger Innes’s defense of Chinese researchers convicted of illegally importing research material.

The Trojan Horse has served gyros and saganaki for 48 years at the corner of Walnut and Kirkwood. It plans to reopen in Ellettsville in August.

Governor Mike Braun at a podium for the groundbreaking of a Meta data center in Lebanon, Ind. The Statehouse is pursuing data center growth while trying to keep energy costs down. Achieving both might not be possible.

The annual service was presented by Valhalla Memory Gardens and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 604.

The mayor sent an email earlier this week urging a yes vote on the purchase, saying North Park was the only path forward while “avoiding a more costly, uncertain, and adversarial process.”