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INDIANAPOLIS — A family is in mourning after police say a 21-month-old girl playing in her driveway Sunday night was hit by a car that sped away. The name of the girl had not been released on Monday, but a family member shared her photo with News 8. On Sunday evening, the girl was playing in the […]

INDIANAPOLIS — The Republican, Democrat, and Libertarian candidates for mayor of Indianapolis squared off in one final debate last night.  Crime and roads dominated the discussion hosted by FOX 59 and West Side Chamber of Commerce. Incumbent Democrat Mayor Joe Hogsett said “we are making progress” on crime, but did acknowledge the increasing homicide rate […]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Chloe Weigand’s grandfather is charged with negligent homicide.  Salvatore “Sam” Anello, of South Bend, was arrested Monday. Weigand, who was 18 months old, died when she fell 11 stories from a window of the Freedom of the Sea cruise ship in July. The ship, operated by Royal Caribbean, was docked in […]

  (INDIANAPOLIS) – With presidential candidates debating different versions of free college tuition, some schools are addressing student loan debt a different way.   “Income share agreements” apply the old employment-agency model to higher education. You don’t owe tuition up front, but once your new degree or certificate lands you a job, the school gets […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Police are trying to piece together what happened after a woman crashed her car and ended up on the roof of a house near the Indiana State Fairgrounds. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was called to the 3700 block of North Parker Avenue around 11:45 a.m. Monday, when a woman driving a car […]

COLUMBUS, Ind. — Three people in Columbus have been arrested after shots were fired at an apartment early Thursday morning. According to Lt. Matt Harris from the Columbus Police Department, it happened at the Charleston Place Apartments.  Officers arrived to find bullet holes in two apartments and began evacuating residents when they made contact with […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Two-and-a-half years after announcing his colon cancer diagnosis, former IndyCar driver John Andretti says he’s staying positive as doctors try to keep the cancer at bay.   Andretti was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer two years ago. Chemo put him in remission, but the disease returned in March. He’s on his second clinical […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Firefighters are on the scene of a large warehouse fire on Indy’s south side. IFD responded to the fire at Contractors Plus, on East Murry Street, around 1:30 pm. That’s just off Madison Avenue, less than a mile northwest of the University of Indianapolis. A WIBC listener called the newsroom and said she […]

(Photo: WIBC)  INDIANAPOLIS- A fire on the city’s south side has broken out Monday afternoon. IFD responded to the two-alarm warehouse fire at 1:30 pm. The warehouse is in the 700 block of E Murry Street, just east of Madison and north of E Sumner Avenue. Smoke can be seen as far as from the […]

Photo: Provided by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources INDIANA- The DNR is stocking channel catfish across Indiana lakes. They expect to stock over 80,000 catfish by the end of November. District fisheries biologists say these stockings occur every other year depending on expected harvest rates. The size and management strategy for each lake will determine […]