Indiana
Indiana to reconsider iGaming in 2025
Indiana has joined the ranks of US states that will take a fresh look at online gambling legislation aiming to authorize and regulate the market segment during 2025. Indiana State Rep. Ethan Manning, a long-time backer of online gambling expansion in the state, has introduced House Bill 1432, an omnibus measure of gambling-related topics, including the approval of online poker and other casino-style online games.
Manning has sponsored or backed several previous gambling measures, the last of those coming in 2023 with his House Bill 1536. Manning’s new measure, HB 1432 (2025), had been teased earlier in January but was finally introduced on Tuesday, then immediately assigned to the House Committee on Public Policy, which Manning chairs.
Manning is also the sponsor of a second bill regarding charitable-gaming initiatives that will also receive early-year attention before his committee. Both gaming-related bills are scheduled for initial discussion on Tuesday, January 28.
iGaming returns to Indiana’s legislative debates
In 2023, Indiana had been considered one of the US states most likely to approve online poker. The state had been a relatively early adopter of online sports betting, and iGaming in Indiana appeared ripe for a similar run toward approval. However, a prominent corruption scandal involving another gambling-expansion proponent sent the state into a cool-off period, legislatively speaking, and Manning’s once-promising bill was allowed to expire and an informal moratorium on the topic went into place for all of 2024.
The issue, which lawmakers believed put a temporary taint on iGaming in Indiana, was the charging of one-time State Rep. Sean Eberhart as part of a scheme to benefit Spectacle Gaming, a former provider of off-track betting services at a small number of northern Iowa venues.
As part of the scheme, Eberhart lobbied and advocated for slashing or eliminating fees connected to two gaming licenses to be acquired by Spectacle. In return, Eberhart accepted the promise of a future position with the company with an annual salary of $350,000. In late 2023, Eberhart agreed to plead guilty and was ultimately sentenced to a fine and a prison sentence of year and a day.
RIPLEY COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — A statewide Silver Alert has been issued for two young children in Indiana.
Police in Ripley County, southeast of Indianapolis, are looing for the children who may be siblings.
The first child is 3-year-old Aaliyah Buckingham.
She was last seen wearing a pink cat shirt and tie-dye shorts.
The younger child is 1-year-old Shane Buckingham, last seen in a red shirt and diaper.
Police think both are with 45-year-old Timothy Buckingham, who was last seen driving a brown GMC truck.
Timothy is described as a 6′ 3″ white man weighing 225 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.
Photo of Timothy Buckingham provided by Indiana State Police
Police have not confirmed the relationship of the three, or why the children are believed to be in danger.
Anyone who sees the three are asked to contact the nearest police department.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A firefighter for the Indianapolis Fire Department was sent to the hospital Wednesday after battling a fire at a vacant house.
According to a Facebook post made by IFD, the fire happened around 10:15 a.m. at a house on Bluff Rd. IFD says that there were several complications, including limited access to fire hydrants and “interior hoarder conditions” that IFD says was due to squatters.
The injured firefighter received “slight injury,” the Facebook post said.
It took over an hour and a half to get the fire under control, according to IFD, and another hour to put out all the remaining hot spots in the building.
According to IFD, the cause of the fire is currently unknown. Their Fire Investigations Unit is working on figuring out what caused the fire.
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