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Indiana Festival to Feature New Stage Barriers

Live music at Saturday’s Taste of Tippecanoe will have a different look. In February, with the memory of the 2011 Indiana State Fair disaster still weighing on the minds of all Hoosiers, lawmakers passed an outdoor temporary staging safety law. …

Indiana Fair Lawsuits Won’t Go to Trial until 2014

A group of lawsuits filed over last summer’s deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse likely won’t go to trial for nearly two years. Lawyers handling the cases have asked Marion Superior Court Judge Theodore Sosin to set the case for …

$5M in Settlements to be Paid to Indiana State Fair Victims

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced the payment plan for distributing the maximum $5 million in tort claim funds to victims of the Indiana State Fair tragedy. With the amount the State has available for victims of the August 13 …