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Corcoran's attorneys ask federal judge to block execution
by: Brady Gibson & Ashley Fowler, WISH-TV
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Attorneys for Joseph Corcoran have asked a federal judge in northern Indiana to stop next week’s scheduled execution.
Corcoran’s legal team filed the request Wednesday for a stay of execution.
Corcoran is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 18 for his conviction on four murders in Allen County.
The filing renews the claim that Corcoran is too severely mentally ill to be eligible for capital punishment.
He has been diagnosed with delusions and paranoid schizophrenia.
His attorneys say Corcoran believes prison guards are using an ultrasound machine to torture him.
“In other words, Mr. Corcoran seeks to be executed—in fact, he is eager to be executed— because he sees it as his escape from the guards’ ultrasonic torture and his disorder,” Corcoran’s attorneys wrote in the court filing. “It is an irrational belief, and it is one that has infiltrated every part of his life. It even pervaded his trial, where he rejected a life plea offer because the State would not acquiesce to his demands and sever his vocal cords so that his disorder could not force him to broadcast his thoughts. “
The Indiana Supreme Court has twice rejected requests to stop Corcoran’s execution because of his mental illness.
Corcoran has also written to the courts, asking that all appeals be stopped and that he be put to death.
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Caitlin Clark's Indiana Fever sold 90 times more tickets on StubHub this year than in 2023
It goes without saying that Caitlin Clark has led the WNBA into another stratosphere.
Clark’s presence after being selected first overall by the Indiana Fever led to historic viewership and attendance numbers.
And if you missed out on your chance to see her through the primary ticket market, the secondary market was hot and heavy.
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StubHub saw wild numbers in WNBA ticket sales, most notably for Clark’s Indiana Fever.
According to StubHub, total sales for the 2024 WNBA regular season were up nearly 10 times compared to the 2023 season, with every team seeing an increase in sales.
But no team saw more growth than the Fever, who had 90 times more tickets sold on StubHub this season than in 2023. The team with the second-highest increase was Angel Reese’s Chicago Sky, and the Fever’s sales were nearly double (93% more).
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Several WNBA playoff games without Clark still had fewer viewers than Clark’s regular-season games, and the Clark-Reese battles had viewership that hadn’t been seen in over two decades.
Clark was named the Rookie of the Year for her historic campaign during which she set the record for the most assists in one season in league history.
Clark carried the Fever to a playoff appearance after a slow start, and she quickly became a double-double machine. She even set a single-game record with 19 assists. She also became the first rookie to record a triple-double, registering two of them.
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She received the most votes for the All-Star Game and was just the fifth rookie in league history to make the All-WNBA first-team.
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Takeaways From 2025 Indiana Football Schedule
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana’s 2025 opponents were already known, but on Wednesday the Big Ten officially released football schedules for next season.
They follow the same format of nine Big Ten games and three nonconference games. In the second year in the expanded 18-team Big Ten, Indiana will face reigning Big Ten champion Oregon for the first time as a conference opponent. However, Indiana’s first Big Ten matchup against USC will have to wait until 2026.
Rosters will certainly undergo many changes from now until Week 1 of next season, and Indiana is no exception. That makes some factors in the 2025 schedule unknown, but there are still a few key takeaways to be made.
Here’s a look at Indiana’s full 2025 schedule.
Smooth runway, again
Indiana opens the season with three nonconference games that it should handle without much resistance. Old Dominion went 5-7 this year and has won more than six games just once since it became an FBS program. Kennesaw State went 2-10 in its first season in the FBS. And Indiana State went 4-8 at the FCS level. Similar to opening the 2024 season with FIU and Western Illinois, this gives Indiana a chance to establish itself and gain some confidence before Big Ten play begins.
Indiana could also benefit from opening Big Ten play with a home game rather than facing its first big challenge of the season in a daunting road environment. The Hoosiers host Illinois on Sept. 20, which shouldn’t be a pushover after going 9-3 this season. But it’s more favorable than some of the away games that lie ahead.
Challenging road trips
Indiana didn’t face the two teams that reached the Big Ten championship this season, Oregon and Penn State. That’s just the nature of the expanded conference, where no team plays more than half of the 18-team Big Ten in a season now.
But in 2025, Indiana will have two road games that could be as difficult as any. On Oct. 11, the Hoosiers travel to Oregon, which is the No. 1 seed in this year’s College Football Playoff. That will be just the fourth time the Hoosiers and Ducks have met, with previous matchups coming in 2004, 1964 and 1963. Oregon won two of those three games. One positive is Indiana will have a bye week to prepare for the Ducks, following its road game at Iowa.
Just under a month later, the Hoosiers head east to Penn State, which is the No. 6 seed in this year’s College Football Playoff. Indiana has never won a game at Beaver Stadium and has a 2-25 all-time record against the Nittany Lions. Beyond trips to Oregon and Penn State, Indiana finishes the season with road games in three of its final four games, which makes winning early in the season even more important.
Familiar face comes to Bloomington
Indiana co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Tino Sunseri officially announced Wednesday that he has accepted the UCLA offensive coordinator position for next season. Sunseri had success with Indiana’s second-team All-Big Ten quarterback Kurtis Rourke in 2024, and he coached three conference player-of-the-year quarterbacks at James Madison from 2021-23.
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti retained the nine other assistants from his 2024 staff, thanks to an increased assistant salary pool of $11 million in his new contract. But on Oct. 25, Sunseri will be on the opposing sidelines of Memorial Stadium calling plays for the UCLA offense. It’ll be an interesting matchup against Cignetti and Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines, who obviously know Sunseri well from their time together at Indiana and James Madison.
No Ohio State, Michigan
In some ways, the 2024 Indiana football season still felt like playing in the old Big Ten conference. Indiana played traditional opponents like Purdue and Michigan State, winning the Old Oaken Bucket and Old Brass Spittoon rivalry trophies. The Hoosiers also tested themselves against traditional powers like Ohio State and Michigan.
But games against UCLA and Washington brought the unfamiliar reality of conference expansion, and that sentiment may be even more prominent in 2025. Indiana has played Ohio State and Michigan 70-plus times each in program history, but it won’t face either program next season. That will mark the first time since the 2008 season that neither team is on the Hoosiers’ schedule.
Indiana’s 2025 slate is full of non-traditional Big Ten teams, including Oregon (2024), UCLA (2024), Maryland (2014) and Penn State (1990).
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Indiana high school diploma redesign passes state education board 11 – 0
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indiana Department of Education in a board meeting Wednesday unanimously voted to pass the state’s proposed redesign of the high school diploma.
The final version is a 42-credit diploma that includes three pathways, or “readiness” seals, that students can follow through “enrollment,” “employment,” and “enlistment & service.” Each student can earn up to 60 credits.
The board says this change will not affect the availability of the alternative diploma for special education students.
The diploma in its earliest forms was subjected to intense criticism from parents, educators, and even higher education institutions.
The first-draft diplomas emphasized workplace readiness, averting the gaze from “college-going as the pinnacle of education” to helping graduating seniors feel prepared to enter the work force.
But the proposed work requirement is that students must also complete at least 75 hours of work experience gained no popularity with students and parents who felt “pressured to work in order to earn the higher-tier diploma.”
The first proposal was scrapped in August and replaced by their second plan, which Secretary of Education Katie Jenner previously said “maximized the flexibility for students so that they can personalize the journey while maintaining rigor.”
After further months of discussion, the diploma’s final draft passed 11 – 0.
Starting in the 2025-26 school year, Indiana schools can opt to award the new diploma, but students must earn a seal to opt in.
By 2028-29, the new diploma will be effective for all graduating seniors.
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