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After Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., the man who shot him, James Earl Ray, was able to evade the FBI during a two-month-long massive worldwide manhunt. Writer Hampton Sides traces the movements of both King and Ray in his book, Hellhound on His Trail.

Nearly 82 percent of Indiana’s third graders passed the required reading exam in 2022 -- a tiny improvement for students but below the rate before the pandemic.

Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid compulsory military service have requested asylum in the U.S. after landing on a remote Alaskan island in the Bering Sea, a senator's office said.

Places in Iran are seeing almost de facto martial law as the government tries to shut down protests that are stretching into their fourth week. Dozens of demonstrators are said to have been killed.

The Area 10 Agency on Aging serves four rural counties with its rural public transit program – Putnam, Owen, Lawrence and Monroe. While the agency focuses on care for seniors, persons with disabilities and family caregivers, their transit program is open to the general public in these counties.

Steve Cline was at home with his wife Annette last December when his heart suddenly stopped. Quick thinking and some help from a 911 dispatcher meant he made a full recovery.

Julio Diaz ends his daily subway commute one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner. One evening, his routine was broken when a teenage mugger took his wallet at knifepoint. But neither of them could have predicted what happened next.

For historian-turned-mystery-writer Jason Goodwin, the bustling Istanbul bazaar is a perfect setting for murder, and the evening call to prayer is "a good time to kick a man to death in the street."

Hundreds of extra Indiana police will be on alert this month to enforce safe driving on roads near buses, schools and residential areas.

A Virginia state herpetologist says finding the mutant copperhead in a resident's yard earlier this month is an "extraordinarily rare" occurrence. Even more stunning, he says, is that it is alive.