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STATEWIDE--A person from Indiana is among 21 people in the U.S. who got sick from salmonella. The Centers for Disease Control believes the cause of the outbreak may be pet turtles. Turtles can carry salmonella germs in their droppings while appearing healthy and clean, says the CDC. These germs can easily spread to their bodies, […]
SEYMOUR, Ind. — Seymour police said Tuesday an infant was left in a bag on the city’s southeast side. A person walking their dog called the police just before 4 p.m. Tuesday and said they found the infant on South Jackson Park Drive, according to a news release from Detective Sgt. C.J. Foster. The infant […]
ROCHESTER, Ind. — Prosecutors in Fulton County will start to make their case today against the woman accused of driving around a stopped school bus last year, hitting and killing three children and seriously injuring a fourth. The jury was selected on Tuesday — six women and six men. Alyssa Shepherd faces three charges of […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – The next state budget won’t be written for two years. There could be new guidelines by then for divvying up school funding. Schools get a certain amount per student, plus extra money for what’s called the complexity index — the number of students in foster care or on welfare or food stamps. But […]
ROCHESTER, Ind. — The jury is set for the Alyssa Shepherd trial in Fulton County. Jon Bowen from WROI in Rochester says the 12-person jury is split down the middle — six women and six men. Jury selection finished Tuesday afternoon. Alyssa Shepherd is the woman who drove around a stopped school bus on State […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – You don’t pay cigarette taxes when you buy e-cigarettes. A legislative study committee is taking a second look at changing that. The House passed a vape tax this year, but the bill stalled and died in a dispute over what the rate should be, and what to base it on. Of the 16 […]
LEBANON, Ind. — A man being processed into the Boone Co. Jail spit cocaine into the faces of jail officers Monday night, the Boone Co. Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. Jail officers were processing 34-year-old Kevin Lampley, of Indianapolis, after he was arrested for driving on a suspended license. When Lampley went through a body scanner, officers noticed […]
STATEWIDE — Tomorrow, the Indiana Department of Transportation will be hosting a job fair to find seasonal snowplow drivers. The event will take place in multiple cities across the state including, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and Bloomington, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 16. The seasonal positions are for general highway maintenance, like removing snow and […]
WANATAH, Ind. — Almost 2,000 racing pigeons were killed in a massive fire early Sunday morning, forcing the 2019 Hoosier Classic to be canceled. Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the fire in Wanatah, a town in LaPorte County. The Times of Northwest Indiana says Jim and Kelly Ward, the race organizers […]
TERRE HAUTE, Ind.–You may need to rescan your TV channels this week if you get your channels through an antenna. The FCC says TV stations in Indianapolis, Evansville, Terre Haute, Ft. Wayne, and South Bend are changing frequencies. You’ll still get the stations on the same channel. But, you’ll need to do a channel scan, […]