Indiana Public Media • 2nd April 2026

'Pregnancy doesn't cure addiction': Overdose is top cause of death for new Indiana mothers

Overdoses contributed to about one-third of deaths in women during pregnancy and up to one year after giving birth, according to the Indiana Maternal Mortality Review Commission’s most recent report.

Indiana Public Media • 30th October 2025

Ten years after Scott County’s historic HIV outbreak, locals dig deeper into root causes

Ten years ago, the Indiana community of Austin made headlines for its historic HIV outbreak brought on by intravenous drug use.   More than 230 people became infected with HIV in the rural town.

Indiana Public Media • 12th September 2025

Funding cut for IU programs that ‘do not advance American interests or values’

The U.S. Department of Education is ending funding for more than a dozen Indiana University programs that “do not advance American interests or values,” according to a Sept. 10 letter. The loss of funding impacts a broad range of programs for foreign languages and international studies.

Indiana Public Media • 5th September 2025

Apprentice to college graduate: Cosmetologists imagine makeover for education

Indiana beauty professionals are reimagining education and training for cosmetology licenses.

News - Indiana Public Media • 21st February 2025

Even before DEI came under attack, IU Bloomington’s Black enrollment stayed flat for decades

Indiana University Bloomington hasn’t made much progress on Black student enrollment in almost 50 years, according to a WFIU/WTIU News analysis.  Fall enrollment headcounts from 1975 to 2024 show Black students at IU averaging about 4 percent of the undergraduate student body.

NPR • 17th February 2024

Indiana University abruptly canceled a Palestinian artist's exhibit. It's now sold out

Indiana University canceled a planned exhibit of the artwork of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby. Now a one-day exhibit by new organizers is sold out.

The Columbus Dispatch • 9th May 2022

Gunfire into Columbus homes, businesses on the rise, with lives threatened, lost

Gunfire into Columbus homes, businesses on the rise, with lives threatened, lost

Traci Wimberly was soundly sleeping with her 1-year-old daughter next to her one night in late March when an unknown suspect in a passing car fired a single bullet that ripped through the exterior of her home and lodged itself in her daughter’s leg.

Fortunately, her daughter, Aurisa Naielle Stewart, survived, but she is in the process of an expensive recovery. And Wimberly is still searching for justice for her ba

The Columbus Dispatch • 24th February 2022

'They didn't just live there': Columbus historian remembers life in The Blackberry Patch

Travelers from the South planted the seeds for one of Columbus' most successful Black neighborhoods with a stretch of rustic log cabins nearly 100 years ago.

Erected on the East Side in the 1920s and 1930s, Blackberry Patch was a community of residents who cared for one another, said Reita Smith, a local historian and founding chair of the James Preston Poindexter Foundation.

"That need for community and