Richard Allen alleges trial errors, asks judge to vacate Delphi murder conviction
Richard Allen. (Courtroom sketch: Li Buszka)Attorneys for Richard Allen filed a string of motions this week calling out what they deemed errors in his trial that warrant vacating his November 2024 conviction in the 2017 murders of Delphi eighth-graders Abby Williams...Student-backed bill to expand Indiana Lifeline Law advances
Concerns about a potential rough ride for a proposed expansion of Indiana’s Lifeline Law – a bill being pushed hard by a coalition of statewide university student leaders led by those at Purdue – were dispelled quickly Tuesday, when Sen. Aaron Freeman, chair of the...This and that: A sled-day Sunday edition
Thanks to sponsor Stuart & Branigin for continued support of the Based in Lafayette reporting project.On a walk through the neighborhoods Saturday, a friend and subscriber offered one of his kids’ sleds to go down the snow-packed berm that is their front yard. He...Do state’s new water studies answer the LEAP pipeline question?
Support for this edition comes from Purdue’s Presidential Lecture Series. Purdue University invites you to a special evening with Thomas Caulfield, president and CEO of semiconductor manufacturing company GlobalFoundries, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, in Stewart...Vote clearing way for IEDC’s SK hynix incentives put on hold, as WL awaits deal
(Photo: SK hynix)A maneuver key to the state’s incentive package offered to South Korean chip maker SK hynix to build a $3.87 billion facility in West Lafayette was delayed again this week, when the head of the West Lafayette Redevelopment Commission said the city...Lafayette shows off new $21.5M public works campus
(Photo: Dave Bangert)Things were spotless everywhere Wednesday, as the mayor cut a ribbon and Lafayette Street and Sanitation crews led tours through a sprawling, $21.5 million public works facility on the south side of McCarty Lanes.What’s it going to be once...Tim’s Picks: 5 for your week
Thanks today for ongoing help from Based in Lafayette sponsor Long Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Lafayette, with a 2025 lineup that includes Ashley McBryde on Jan. 30. For tickets and details on all the shows and events, go to longpac.org.By Tim Brouk /...WL school board: ‘Put our axes down and stop grinding’
(Photo: Dave Bangert)For the West Lafayette school board, in its first meeting of the year Monday, it was a new room in a relocated central office, now just behind West Lafayette Elementary School. There was a new electronic system to manage vote tallies on screens...At a cold People’s March: ‘Our voices don’t end at the ballot box’
(Photo: Dave Bangert)With breezes pushing temperatures in the upper-20s into the feels-like teens Saturday afternoon, Ashley Pierce was among 100 people bundled up outside the Tippecanoe County Courthouse.Pierce, in town from Lake County to visit family for the...
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