Hoosier Happenings

Marion county prosecutor funds came from questionable source

INDIANAPOLIS – The Marion County prosecutor and his chief trial deputy accepted campaign donations from the father of a woman convicted in a plot to kill her husband and later had decades cut from her sentence. Prosecutor Carl Brizzi accepted nearly $30,000 in campaign donations and David Wyser received $2,500 after Paula Willoughby’s attorneys began negotiating with Wyser on the release.


Homeless numbers double in Muncie

MUNCIE – A 100 percent increase in the number of homeless people in Muncie has advocates scrambling to find space for those needing shelter in the height of winter. A count of homeless in Delaware County as part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s National Homeless Day showed 447 homeless men, women and children this week, up from 223 last year.


New Ambassador inspired by goodwill mission to Costa Rica

EVANSVILLE - The new U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica said her interest in Central America stems from an aid mission she embarked on with relatives while a teenager living in Evansville. Anne Slaughtewr Andrew said the six-week trip at age 16 to Honduras and Guatemala to distribute food and medicine to remote regions changed her perspective and lifetime ambitions.