The Indiana State Department of Health has been collecting babies’ blood and DNA without their parents’ permission since 1991, according to an investigation by a local news station. Now the state wants to know what to do with the blood samples. When a baby is born in Indiana, as with other states, the state conducts a newborn screening test. A nurse or midwife takes a few drops of blood from the... 

Microscopic images of the Middle East Respiratory Virus (MERS) The US’s first case of the MERS virus has been detected in Indiana, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Friday. The patient is a healthcare worker who returned to the US from Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, on April 24. Along the way, the person passed through London and Chicago before taking a bus to Indiana.... 

A 46-car pileup on a snowy interstate in Indiana has left three people dead. The vehicles – most of them semi trucks – collided while driving in poor weather conditions. More than 20 people were also injured on Interstate 94, which connects Chicago and Detroit, as heavy snowfall and low visibility made for dangerous driving conditions. According to the Associated Press, a front of lake-effect... 

More than 1,600 flights were cancelled and 500 more were delayed on Wednesday after a fierce winter storm swept through the northeastern US. While the snowfall was over on Wednesday, fierce winds and biting temperatures continued and millions of American commuters faced miserable conditions as the storm stretched from Kentucky to New England. Almost 3,500 flights were canceled on Tuesday, and thousands... 

The United States Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of biotech giant Monsanto, closing the door on a patent case that has pitted a smalltime farmer from Indiana against a titan of the agriculture industry. The high court said early Monday that 75-year-old farmer Vernon Bowman of Indiana violated Monsanto’s patent rights when he purchased a mix of seeds from a grain elevator that he later planted... 

Thousands of Second Amendment activists across the US took part in a Day of Resistance against President Obama’s gun control measures, calling his plans unconstitutional. Words are not all they’re prepared to use to protect their right to bear arms. People gathered at dozens of cities and towns across the United States, crowds numbering from a hundred to a thousand people. They were carrying... 

The most powerful earthquakes in the history of the United States happened along the New Madrid Fault in 1811 and 1812. Those earthquakes were reportedly felt more than 1,000 miles away. Scientists assure us that one day we will once again see very powerful earthquakes along the New Madrid fault. It is only a question of when it will happen. Today, the New Madrid fault zone covers portions of Illinois,... 

The parents and their three children, all 2 or under, including one buckled in a car seat, held hands on the hallway floor of their neighbor’s mobile home, praying a fast-approaching storm would show them mercy. Mother Nature answered with a fierce tornado, which violently swept them up, separated them and deposited them about 100 yards away. Four of their limp bodies were found soon thereafter.... 

Tiny Goshen College in Indiana has banned the “The Star Spangled Banner: at all sporting events because the Mennonite school’s president considers the National Anthem’s words to be too violent. The 1,000-student school had already banned the words last year, but the band could still play the music for patriots in attendance. Now, the school has banned the song entirely, according... 

Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes. In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry. “We... 

Sex researchers who tracked teenage girls in Indianapolis found that half of those studied had at least one sexually transmitted infection within two years of first having sex. The Indiana University School of Medicine researchers followed 381 girls who mostly lived in lower-income neighborhoods and ranged in age from 14 to 17 when the study began. IU professor J. Dennis Fortenberry says about half... 

Five years after the murder of a 24-year-old woman in New Albany, Indiana, there has been a break in the case. A Floyd County grand jury has returned an indictment in the murder of Alyssa Lee. In 2004, WAVE 3 sat down with William Lee as he tried to make sense of what happened to his daughter. “She gave me a hug. And she told me she was going to the store. That she would be back and she would...