An Indiana University law professor who helped Bill Clinton make the transition to power in 1992 before serving in his administration has joined President-elect Barack Obama's transition team.

The Indiana House will once again invite clergy members and other guests to give opening prayers before legislative work begins.

Daschle, a former Senate majority leader, would head the agency that will handle the incoming administration's efforts to expand health insurance coverage, a Democratic source says.

Indiana Congressman Mike Pence has been elected chairman of the House Republican Conference, the No. 3 leadership post among the GOP in Congress.

Legislators on both sides of the aisle talked about their top priority for the 2009 general session: a two-year balanced state budget during tough economic times.

Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Obama official and people close to the matter said Tuesday.

Grant County prosecutors say 55-year-old Kem Linn used his tobacco wholesaling business to bilk the Old National Bank out of millions between 2004 and 2008.

Drafting a two-year, balanced state budget during the Indiana legislative session that begins in earnest in January is likely to be a tough task.

Lawmakers can't agree on a more minor bill, and they barely approved a report outlining it's previous meeting.

Republican Indiana Senator Richard Lugar is saying "thanks but no thanks" to a possible cabinet position in the Obama administration.