WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The 1980 Purdue Boilermakers are immortalized in the Mackey Arena trophy case now, but their season started with all eyes in the state on that school to the south. “Indiana had an awful lot of attention on it with Isaiah Thomas. It was Mike Woodson’s final season,” longtime sports writer Mike […]
They can smell the postseason now, catching a big whiff of its special aroma mixture of achievement and opportunity. You could tell that in the final hours of 2023, when
Chicago and Gary Crusader Publisher Dorothy R. Leavell is a hands-on publisher. It’s not just a self-described title, it’s actually what she has been doing
IBJ reporter Susan Orr and Managing Editor Greg Weaver each won two awards at the Best of Indiana Journalism Awards, hosted by the Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
When her husband died in 1968, Dorothy Leavell took over as owner and publisher of both the Chicago and Gary Crusader newspapers. She assumed editorial