Dispute still delays new Indiana child services chief

Indiana

East Indiana man gets 37 years in prison in son’s death

RICHMOND – An eastern Indiana man has been sentenced to 37 years in prison in the starvation death of his 3-month-old son.Saturday

IU proposes 1.75 percent tuition increase

BLOOMINGTON – Indiana University President Michael McRobbie is recommending tuition and fee increases of 1.75 percent for Indiana residents in each of the next two years at the school’s Bloomington campus.Saturday

Chief justice encourages diligence to alma mater

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday told graduates of the northern Indiana Catholic boarding school he graduated from 40 years ago that persistence is the most essential quality to success and is the only trait each personSaturday

CROWN POINT – A northwestern Indiana county judge named by Gov. Mike Pence in January to head the state’s Department of Child Services has yet to start in that job amid disagreement over who’ll take over her court duties.

The state Supreme Court told Lake County juvenile court Judge Mary Beth Bonaventura on Friday that it wouldn’t intervene in the dispute.

Supreme Court official David Remondini tells the Times of Munster that the court won’t issue an advisory opinion because of the complexity of laws and court rules surrounding the matter.

Lake County’s 15 other superior court judges decided to fill the juvenile court position from their ranks based on seniority. Bonaventura objected, saying there should be a merit selection process in which the governor would appoint the new judge.