STATEWIDE–Heat index values will be over 100 all throughout Indiana this week. “What stands out to me is how prolonged the heat really is. It’s going to be all week. The humidity will be very excessive. Any exposure you have while outside can take a toll on your body,” said Matt Eckhoff, meteorologist with the […]
INDIANAPOLIS–The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is trying to find a sex offender who has an active warrant for possession of child pornography. His name is Michael Shawn Kidwell. He’s 39 years old. Kidwell is 5’7 and weighs about 155 pounds. Police believe he drove a 2014 Chrysler 200 or a 2015 black Buick Encore. “This […]
STATEWIDE--The Indiana High School Athletic Association wants to make it clear that their transfer rules are completely different than the NCAA’s transfer portal. For the NCAA, new regulations were adopted in 2021 allowing student-athletes in Division I football, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s ice hockey, and baseball to change schools using the portal once […]
RICHMOND, Ind.–A man from Richmond was sentenced this week to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to receipt of child sexual abuse material. The Department of Justice says 65-year-old David Julien was making French fries in his kitchen, but he forgot the hot grease on his stove and a fire started. The Richmond […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.–Indiana University gave its men’s basketball coach Mike Woodson a $1 million per year raise on the contract he originally signed in 2021. Woodson’s new average salary of $4.2 million per year makes him one of the three highest paid men’s basketball coaches in the Big Ten. Michigan State’s Tom Izzo leads the conference […]
INDIANAPOLIS–70 members of Indiana Task Force One left early Friday morning for Maui to help with the emergency response effort from the wildfires in Hawaii. This team will be joining two other members of the task force that are already in Maui. The group is made up of emergency responders from the Indianapolis Fire Department, […]
INDIANAPOLIS–The man who led Indiana’s economic development efforts for Gov. Eric Holcomb now hopes to succeed him as governor. Brad Chambers filed the paperwork Thursday morning to form his campaign for governor in 2024. This is the first step in the formal process of running for Governor. Chambers resigned as Indiana’s Secretary of Commerce earlier […]
INDIANAPOLIS–The Indiana High School Athletic Association says they are trying to create a more welcoming environment for high school referees in Indiana. In 2015-16, the number of referees in Indiana went up by 43. Every year up to 2021-22, it dropped by more than 1,000 referees. There was a slight increase for the 2022-23 high […]
STATEWIDE–Students were found with guns at Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis and Frankfort High School Thursday morning. Community Schools of Frankfort said the gun was discovered after some high school students got into a fight at around 8 a.m. that resulted in a handgun falling out of one of the student’s waistband. That gun […]