Ray Steele And The News

A gay and lesbian civil rights bill might be dead for this legislative session.

Also, how to work both Jim Ross and Terry Funk into a wrestling grizzly bear statue story...

What happened to Ruff and Tuff? Franklin College is looking for a statue thief.

Here they are, the picks for tonight's Iowa Caucuses from Laura Albright, assistant professor of political science at UIndy - The University of Indianapolis. Roll Tide.

For the first time since Susan Jordan's death, school is in session at Amy Beverland Elementary.

Leonard Hoops, president and CEO of Visit Indy, is happy with 2015's record convention year. But that doesn't mean he isn't a little apprehensive about the ongoing LGBT civil rights debate because(and there are critics who don't believe him) he says the RFRA debate cost Indy business. Please listen to the whole interview, if you can.

Though they appear to be the new news anchor lineup for Network Indiana in the picture, Donny Idol, Ricky Ruckus and Appollo Q Starr (left to right) were there to talk up Emerge 12: Consequences. It's Saturday February 6 at the DSI Gym in Columbus.

From Munich, Germany, Jun Markl returns to Indy to conduct week 2 of the Cosmos Music Festival. The featured piece will be "The Planets", the wonderful suite from Gustav Holst

Well, this was fun. A star that I grew up watching with some of the finest entertainers of all time - and she is one of them - will be at The Palladium in Carmel! Go see Vikki Carr Saturday, Jan. 30!

2015 was another record year for tourism in Indy. That doesn't mean the religious freedom debate had no impact.

Here is the full show, minus the T. It sure seemed that way, with the T gone from LGBT in the legislature and the T(rump) gone from the Republican debate. Abdul and I have the 10 most compelling stories of the day.

For my money, the broadcast of the Challenger disaster that hit me harder than any, and I didn't hear it until more than a decade after it's broadcast. The first report, the live coverage from ABC Radio News, with Bob Walker in New York and the marvelous Vic Ratner at the Kennedy Space Center. That's followed by a live report from the great Christopher Glenn of CBS Radio News.

The new downtown transit center, the one that was supposed to be open by now, will instead be open by this summer.

Her friends and family - and probably many, many others - will say goodbye to Susan Jordan on Saturday.

Operator error is the term police are using right now to describe Tuesday's school bus accident that left a principal dead.

Less than a year-and-a-half after taking office, Ball State's president will step down.

Park Tudor School reopens Tuesday morning, and many questions may not be answered for a while.

Carl Stutsman joins me for the Monday news countdown, in which we start with Peyton Manning (and to a lesser extent, Tom Brady), and end with a lot of unanswered questions about what's going on at a well known private school.

Picture frames, glue guns and racism. You don't expect to find one of those at Michaels stores.

His death was an apparent suicide, and it came during an internet crimes against children investigation involving Park Tudor School, the school he helped lead.