INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Indiana Supreme Court said Friday it would step into a legislative dispute over the collection of $1,000-a-day fines imposed on Democrats who boycotted the House to protest a right-to-work bill....

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Indiana House on Friday decided to give bars an 18-month exemption from a bill calling for a broad statewide smoking ban in a move that sponsors hope will help it win passage in the Legislature....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Two hundred years ago, the first steamboat meandered down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, taking more than four months to reach New Orleans. The journey was marked by Indians chasing the paddle-wheeled boat, a baby's birth and an earthquake that made the Mississippi flow in the opposite direction for 45 miles....

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- An Indiana man was arrested after authorities say security personnel at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport found a gun in his bag....

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) -- A group of Indiana college students who excavated graves at a former county "poor farm" unearthed several Victorian-era caskets, some of them six-sided and one with a glass window that allowed a glimpse of the deceased....

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A jury has convicted a New York prison inmate of falsely filing tax returns seeking $890 million in refunds....

LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- People use all sorts of ways to try to predict the winner of the Super Bowl: comparing regular season records, judging who looked stronger in the post-season run-up to the big game, or watching the betting lines from Las Vegas oddsmakers....

LONDON (AP) -- The Museum of London is displaying a coin found by the River Thames that may have been used nearly 2,000 years ago as a "brothel token" in Roman London....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A restroom rip-off in central Ohio has automatic flushers disappearing from the bathrooms at restaurants and other businesses....

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) -- A 19-year-old college student accused of swiping a doughnut in Wyoming is going to be paying a pretty penny for that pastry....