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INDIANAPOLIS – A longtime heavyweight in Indiana s gambling industry is selling his stake in a Gary casino project and permanently giving up his state casino license after allegations of financial wrongdoings by him and a business partner.
The deal announced Tuesday between former Spectacle Entertainment CEO Rod Ratcliff and the Indiana Gaming Commission comes after he had filed a lawsuit last month against the agency s order that he give up his ownership stake in the existing Lake Michigan casino in Gary and a new $300 million casino being built to replace it at a more lucrative inland Gary location.
The Indiana Supreme Court has ordered the Department of Correction to pay more than $500,000 in legal fees in a fight over one of the state s deepest, darkest secrets.
At stake was whether the state had to reveal the mix of drugs the department plans to use to execute inmates on Indiana s Death Row. And last week, nearly 7 years after the case started, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that ordered IDOC to release the information.
The ruling will hinder Indiana s ability to carry out death penalty sentences and leaves many unresolved issues that will likely end up back in court, Solicitor General Thomas Fisher, who represented the state in the case, said in an email response to questions from IndyStar.
Inmates in culinary program bake cookies for grieving Indiana State Prison staff
Lt. Eugene Lasco died Feb. 21 when he was coming to the defense of a fellow correction officer and an inmate stabbed him.
Credit: Indiana Department of Correction Author: WTHR.com staff Updated: 2:24 PM EST March 2, 2021
ROCKVILLE, Ind. Inmates at the Rockville Correctional Facility in the Oakland City University Culinary Arts program got the chance to stray from their typical curriculum to make a kind gesture for the staff at Indiana State Prison.
Indiana State Prison is grieving the loss of one of their own, Lt. Eugene Lasco, who died after being attacked by an inmate on Feb. 21. To show their concern for Lasco s colleagues, the students in the program sent homemade cookies to Indiana State Prison staff.