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  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 […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.–The recovery effort from the wildfires in Hawaii is one that’s going to take a long time. “When wildfires enter communities like they did in Maui, they destroy buildings, vehicles, boats, and other infrastructure materials that release all sorts of toxic chemicals into the air and into the soil,” said Andrew Whelton. He […]

INDIANAPOLIS–The Indiana Fever made a donation to Ascension St. Vincent that is meant to give women a free mammogram. The donation made Tuesday was for $10,000. It will help pay for the Ascension St. Vincent Mobile Mammography Unit. “It really means a lot that we’ll be able to continue to see women who don’t have […]

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.–A man in Jeffersonville was shot and killed by police late Tuesday night. Police say they got a call from someone who lived in the AVIA apartments on North Shore Drive asking them to check on a man named Richard Glass. The caller says Glass made “some concerning statements that he was going back […]