Dan Coats

Indiana's U.S. Senate race is on the minds of many Hoosiers going into Election Day.  This race could help decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.  It pits State Treasurer Richard Mourdock and U.S. Representative Joe Donnelly.  Both candidates are...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tea party advocates in Indiana who aced their first test by ousting U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in May likely face a much tougher final exam Tuesday as they work to push Republican Richard Mourdock to victory. Volunteers with...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Richard Mourdock is making his final pitch for the Indiana Senate seat held by the GOP for nearly four decades by telling voters he would be the 51st vote to repeal the federal health care overhaul. Mourdock and...

Indiana Senator Dan Coats has some strong opinions about the upcoming presidential election—and he says the stakes can’t get any higher. In an interview with Fox59, Coats said the political battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana's 2012 election cycle has highlighted a truism in politics: Money matters. Indiana's gubernatorial races have always been pricey battles, edging above $31 million in combined spending in 2004. But Indiana's Senate race joined the...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Campaign cash from outside political groups is flooding into conservative states with close Senate races like Indiana, Arizona and Montana, where residents are more accustomed to local news promos between football games than...

Senate candidates Joe Donnelly and Richard Mourdock reacted swiftly to a new poll showing Donelly with a slight lead. The Howey/DePauw Political Battleground Poll showed Donnelly, the Democratic candidate, with a 40 to 38 lead over Mourdock, the...

Reaction is mixed over the Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Obama's healthcare law: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels: “The immediate implications for Indiana are a huge increase in health insurance rates, especially for young people,...

As recently as last week, U. S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, speaking in Niles, talked about the need to re-duce the country’s depend-ence on foreign oil and re-ferred to the proposed $7 billion Keystone XL Can-ada-to-Texas pipeline project as a...

So far, the focus in this year's U.S. Senate race in Indiana has been almost entirely on the Republican primary between incumbent Sen. Richard Lugar and state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, the Democratic Senate candidate who didn'...

The hit men of the tea party can carve another notch in their collective gun belts this week with the ouster of Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Senate. Whatever mojo the conservative firebrands had in the 2010 GOP primaries,...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Half-truths and exaggerations are quickly replacing the legislative issues that dominated the General Assembly session as Indiana's election "silly season" begins in earnest. The most egregious examples are coming out of the...