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FISHERS, Ind.—The real police don’t take payments in gift cards. Police in Fishers are reminding people of that because of a scam they say has been happening in Hamilton County. “They were using a legitimate name for an illegitimate purpose. The scammers were posing as a detective with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office (Detective Mike […]
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — A Speedway man is wanted for his mother’s murder. Speedway Police say 39-year-old Vinson Edge stabbed his 58-year-old mother, Vickie Edge, to death Sunday night and then ran away. Edge is described as black, about six feet tall and 195 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes and may have a beard […]
UPDATE: 12 p.m., Oct. 14, 2019 The Silver Alert for 30-year-old Sommer Lee, of Richmond, is canceled. RICHMOND, Ind. — Indiana State Police are searching for a missing 30-year-old woman from Richmond. A Silver Alert has been issued for Sommer Lee. Lee was last seen Sunday at around 8:45 p.m. State Police believe she may […]
ELKHART, Ind.–A person in Elkhart County has died from Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). It happened over the weekend. EEE is contracted through a mosquito bite. It’s the first case of a person from Indiana dying from it in over two decades. It’s the first human case since 1998. The Centers for Disease Control says about […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The impeachment inquiry is a frustrating process to Rep. Jim Banks (R), who says it’s a distraction with no substance, and it’s keeping Congress from taking up real issues. “Hoosiers come out on the short end of the stick because the impeachment hearings are focusing on something that doesn’t have anything to do with […]
DES MOINES — Moving U.S troops out of Syria was the wrong move, according to South Bend Mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. In the past, Buttigieg has been an advocate for ending what he refers to as “forever wars” in the middle east. It was this reasoning that President Trump said prompted him to […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Two people shot at a party in Bloomington Sunday. Cops were driving by and heard gunshots. They saw people leaving and running away. When they got to the house where it happened on South Grant Street, they found a 23-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman shot. They called for an ambulance and the […]
NEENAH, Wisc. — He walked hundreds of miles from Indiana to Wisconsin — all to have sex with an underage girl. The US Attorney’s Office in Wisconsin says Tommy Lee Jenkins, an already convicted sex offender who had just moved from Oshkosh, Wisconsin to Whitestown, Indiana, had been speaking with what he thought was a […]
Photo: Google Street view, George Washington High School. May 2019. INDIANAPOLIS- Indianapolis Public Schools are offically on fall break, October 14-18th. This also means many students are getting a break from warm meals. More than 80{46ff1f14221e6e90aab6104ff16614ca22b12c1f029f774ee196565ca96b3af3} of IPS students qualify for free and reduced-price meals during the school year. That is why, IPS announced Friday […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis police are investigating after two men tried to rob the driver of a horse-drawn carriage downtown. It happened right in front of the south lawn of the Indiana Statehouse on West Washington just before 10 p.m. Thursday. One of them had a gun. Matt Rzeszutko walks by the area often, even late at […]