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Saugus High School 10th grader Ella Cabigting is hugged by her father, Emerson, Nov. 14 as they are reunited in Central Park after being evacuated from Saugus High School. A gunman opened fire in the high school in Santa Clarita, California.

Detectives probe how teen got gun as California community mourns

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Nov. 17,2019 2:45 p.m.

The teenager who opened fire on his classmates before shooting himself died Friday night at a hospital, authorities said.

Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent, left, and William B. Taylor, right, swear in to the House Intelligence Committee's first public inquiry into the interaction between President Donald Trump and the government of Ukraine on Nov. 13 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

New impeachment evidence more directly links Trump to effort to pressure Ukraine

By Tribune News Service · Thursday, Nov. 14,2019 9:08 p.m.

Two U.S. diplomats testified Wednesday as part of the House's public impeachment hearings.

Switchyard Park opening ceremony this weekend, mayor invites Bloomington community

By Carson TerBush · Thursday, Nov. 14,2019 7:42 p.m.

Food trucks, live music and a ribbon-cutting ceremony will welcome the 57-acre park.

Teenage girls invited to attend Young Women’s Leadership Summit

By Lizzie Kaboski · Wednesday, Nov. 13,2019 2:34 p.m.

The inaugural summit will discuss social issues affecting teen girls.

Hoosier history on wheels: IU Bicentennial's 'Big Red Bus' to travel, celebrate IU history

By Luke Christopher Norton · Tuesday, Nov. 12,2019 5:36 p.m.

The traveling exhibit aims to highlight IU's affect on the state.

Ph.D. candidate creates gamified health app

By Kyra Miller · Tuesday, Nov. 12,2019 5:33 p.m.

The app is specifically designed for adults with autism.

The mobile home of Richard Lohmann, a resident of 20 years, sits next to vacant lots of burned out homes Oct. 29 at Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park in Agoura Hills, California. Roughly half of the Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park was destroyed by the Woolsey fire last year, leaving more than one hundred families homeless.

Half their community burned in the Woolsey fire. Recovery is wreaking its own misery.

By Tribune News Service · Monday, Nov. 11,2019 6:12 p.m.

A year after the Nov. 8, 2018, fire, Seminole Springs is still nowhere close to funding its rebuild, residents said.

Yogi’s Bar and Grill reopening Monday, keeping traditions intact

By Carson TerBush · Sunday, Nov. 10,2019 4:26 p.m.

Replacing Scotty’s Brewhouse, the new Yogi’s is a revival of a Bloomington favorite

President Donald Trump listens to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a Cabinet Meeting on Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C.

State Department freed Ukraine money before Trump says he did

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Nov. 10,2019 3:36 p.m.

Bolton's handling of the funding struck officials in the White House as violating protocol.

The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette from Boyertown, Pennsylvania, as it transits across the face of the sun May 9, 2016.

Mercury will pass in front of the sun on Monday

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Nov. 10,2019 3:28 p.m.

That last happened in 2012.

TEDxIU brings global leaders to Bloomington to tell their story

By Joy Burton · Saturday, Nov. 9,2019 5:05 p.m.

More than 600 people attended the event Nov. 8 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Purple Shirt Brigade protesters removed from Bloomington farmers market Saturday

By Lydia Gerike · Saturday, Nov. 9,2019 5:04 p.m.

The group was protesting Schooner Creek Farm’s connection to a white nationalist group.

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb to deliver 2019 IU winter commencement address

By Jessica Prucha · Friday, Nov. 8,2019 8:01 p.m.

The governor will speak at the ceremony Dec. 12 in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

IU receives $300,000 grant to improve cybersecurity for 2020 election

By Jessica Prucha · Friday, Nov. 8,2019 8:11 a.m.

The grant will fund cybersecurity incident response initiatives across the state’s 92 counties.

United States diplomat to Ukraine, William Taylor, arrived at the Capitol on Oct. 22 in Washington, D.C. Taylor's testimony comes as a growing number of Republicans in Congress struggle to defend the president's actions over Ukraine and Syria.

Top Ukraine diplomat Taylor threatened to quit over Trump demand, transcript shows

By Tribune News Service · Thursday, Nov. 7,2019 10:51 p.m.

House Democrats released a transcript of Taylor's closed-door deposition Wednesday.

President Donald Trump arrives Nov. 6 to deliver remarks on Federal Judicial Confirmation Milestones in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Trump organized the event to celebrate the confirmation of more than 150 Federal judges.

Poll: 1 in 4 Americans undecided about impeachment

By Tribune News Service · Thursday, Nov. 7,2019 10:35 p.m.

The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll also asked participants about the 2020 election.

Off-duty Bloomington firefighter saves two people from burning house

By Sara Kress · Thursday, Nov. 7,2019 8:51 p.m.

He continued to help even after on-duty firefighters arrived.

National charity erases $2.2 million in medical debt for Bloomington families

By Claire Peters · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2019 6:20 p.m.

The identities of the recipients won’t be revealed until the debt is bought.

A 7.7-acre prescribed burn is scheduled between Nov. 6 and June 1, 2020, on the north shore of Griffy Lake. To conduct the burn, Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department has contracted with Habitat Solutions Wildlife and Forest Management.

Bloomington to burn north shore of Griffy Lake over next few months to regenerate habitat

By Lyndsay Valadez · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2019 5:08 p.m.

The burn is also intended to diversify wildlife and remove invasive species.

David Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs, arrives Nov. 6 at the U.S. Capitol before giving a deposition to the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors in Washington, D.C. Hale testified to the committee as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

Third-highest ranking State Department official testifying

By Tribune News Service · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2019 4:27 p.m.

The panel expects to unseal two more deposition transcripts Wednesday, though it has not indicated whose.

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