Gopher hunter shoots fisherman; sex extortion; pony acts like dog
News from the Midwest.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A bear spotted wandering in northern Indiana is the state's first confirmed presence of a wild black bear in more than 140 …
HAVEN, Kan. — Students at Haven High School will have to look at each other while dancing next school year.
PIERRE, S.D. — The indictment of a South Dakota man for falsely claiming he lost more than a hundred cattle during the autumn blizzard of 2013…
FORT RILEY, Kan. — Fort Riley troops stood in formation Friday as a fleet of Kiowa helicopters flew overhead in a symbolic tribute to the reti…
INDIANAPOLIS — A southwestern Indiana woman is suing a township trustee's office, alleging that she was denied government assistance because h…
REDFIELD, S.D. — Police in Spink County say a man who was taking aim at some gophers in his yard accidently shot a 20-year-old fisherman from …
LANSING, Mich. — When Michigan enacted a tax credit for low- to moderate-income individuals and families nine years ago, it was an unmistakabl…
CROWN POINT, Ind. — A northwestern Indiana emergency dispatch agency fired one employee and suspended another after a man was found dead in a …
BEATRICE, Neb. — A woman in southeast Nebraska has been accused of putting carpet cleaner into her boyfriend's mother's drink in an attempt to…
MADISON, Wis. — It was a close call for an infant whose stroller was sent rolling downhill on a downtown Madison street where an SUV without a…
BELLEVUE, Neb. — A Nebraska man who tried to extort an Ohio 16-year-old into sending him more sex photos has been imprisoned for 30 years.
HOWELL, Mich. — The Internal Revenue Service says former "Little House on the Prairie" star Melissa Gilbert failed to pay more than $360,000 i…
LA CROSSE, Wis.— Koehl is such a confident pony that he just assumes he is a member of the family — to the extent that his owners once invited…
