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SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Not one, but two classic rock bands are coming to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May. Styx and REO Speedwagon will co-headline the 2020 Carb Day concert on May 22. The concert will begin at 3:30 p.m. inside Turn 4 of the IMS oval.  “Miller Lite Carb Day is the start of […]

ANDERSON, Ind.— Prosecutors in Madison County hope charges against a Department of Child Services worker sends a message to other people who are supposed to protect children.  A grand jury indicted the worker, Spencer Osborn, for returning a boy to his abusive mother. Police say the mother, Kathryn Hill, then abused the four-year-old boy some […]

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH)  — An emerging neighborhood is fighting back against plans to move an auto salvage business into the area. People who live in the Old Southside neighborhood say they’re worried about noise, increased traffic, and environmental damage. Across the street from a proposed salvage yard are a new house and another one under construction. […]

JENNINGS COUNTY, Ind. – Two Jennings County men were arrested after one of them attempted to return a cell phone to a local business and instead returned a meth pipe, according to The Republic newspaper in Columbus. Marvin Cumberworth dropped off the cell phone box containing the meth pipe on Friday, said police. When the […]

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A 37-year-old man was taken to a hospital in serious condition Monday night after an hourslong standoff with a special weapons and tactics unit at a business on the northwest side. The man was shot by police. He was awake and breathing when taken to the hospital by ambulance around 10 p.m. […]

BROWNSBURG, Ind.— One person is dead after their SUV struck a train in Brownsburg. According to the Hendricks County Sheriff’s Office, investigators responded to two separate incidents of a vehicle colliding with a train in Brownsburg late Monday and early Tuesday morning. Police were first called out to the 6900 block of North County Road 900 […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor to President Donald Trump, will visit Indianapolis on Wednesday and Thursday, the White House said Monday. Ivanka Trump and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross serve as co-chairs of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, which will hold its quarterly meeting Thursday on the campus of the Indiana […]

INDIANAPOLIS — In light of a brawl that happened among teenagers and a few adults at Circle Centre Mall in downtown Indianapolis Friday night, the leader of the Indy Ten Point Coalition thinks the mall should enact some new rules. Rev. Charles Harrison said unruly behavior by the city’s youth at the mall is not […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Fishers Representative Todd Huston will be Indiana’s next House speaker. Huston (R) was the only candidate in a closed-door Republican caucus to replace the retiring Brian Bosma. Bosma will preside over most of the 2020 session, but step aside as speaker a few days before adjournment. That’s when final decisions are being made […]

INDIANAPOLIS — The mother of the Roncalli High School student who was bullied by football players says the school has not done enough to punish the players. In an interview with 93 WIBC’s “The Chicks on the Right,” Leslie Woodruff says her son Jack — who has down syndrome and is the manager of the […]