INDIANAPOLIS — At the Statehouse, the Indiana House of Representatives unanimously advanced a bill that would increase the pay for jury-duty. House Bill 1466 would be the first time jury pay has been increased in 25 years. State Rep. Michelle Davis’ (R-Whiteland) bill would double the pay to $80 a day while serving as a […]
ELKHART, Ind. — The Elkhart Police Department says yesterday they’ve arrested 21-year-old Reeyon Young for a previous warrant. Around 2:10 p.m. Monday, officers tried to arrest Young at a home on the St. Joseph River on W. Lexington Avenue. The officers first gave verbal commands for Young to surrender, but he stayed inside the home. […]
KOKOMO – Kokomo Police are searching for a truck that ran over a child in a hit-and-run. Tuesday morning around 8:15 a.m., a 10-year-old girl was running across a parking lot to a bus stop when she was hit by a black Dodge Ram Pick-up Truck. The truck then fled the scene in an unknown […]
CUMBERLAND, Ind. — A Cumberland Daycare worker was arrested for giving children melatonin. Tonya Voris worked for New Life Church’s Kidz Life Childcare Ministry as their daycare director. A probable cause affidavit says that Voris dosed 17 children with melatonin gummies. Melatonin is an over-the-counter supplement, not regulated by the FDA, to help induce sleep. […]
INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is investigating a hit-and-run that happened by IU Health Methodist Hospital Saturday afternoon. Around 4:00 p.m., police say that a car was driving westbound in the eastbound lanes by the construction on 16th St. and N. Capital Avenue. The investigation led police to believe that the driver intentionally swerved onto the sidewalk […]
BLUFFTON, Ind. — The body found in the yard of an empty house in Bluffton was identified as a missing Fort Wayne woman. Bluffton police say that the body was found hidden from view in the yard to a vacant house on the west side of Bluffton. Behind the privacy fence of the yard, police […]
INDIANAPOLIS — A proposed Indiana bill would ban picketing or protesting outside of a person’s home. Senate Bill 348, Crimes against public administration, would make residential harassment a Class C misdemeanor “to picket before or about a person’s dwelling with the intent of disturbing the person in the person’s dwelling.” But, the bill specifies that […]
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY — A man attacked his family then got into a SWAT standoff Tuesday night in St. Joseph County. County Police say that they were called to a mobile home on Locust Road – just south of Kern Road – for a man that attacked his mother. 36-year-old Stephen Teacher punched his mother, […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Indy Metro Police arrested a man for a shooting that killed a man and wounded a woman. IMPD said they arrested Tony Miller Jr. on January 31st for the shooting that happened on Indy’s northeast side last November. Police were called to that shooting on E. 38th Place for a person who had […]
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. — Seven charges are filled against a St. Joseph County Probate Judge Jason Cichowicz for misconduct. The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications filed the charges, and say that they come from a conflict of interest and improper dealing with a charitable trust. Two charges are from when Judge Cichowicz was an […]