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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 […]

    WASHINGTON — One of your representatives in Washington is talking about the significance of the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in northern Syria.  Baghdadi was killed when he committed suicide by detonating an explosive-laden vest as U.S special forces soldiers were closing in on his location.  Indiana […]

BEDFORD, Ind.–Identifying human bones found in Bedford over the weekend will take a while, police say.  The Bedford Police Department says the remains were found by someone walking their dog in the woods Friday. It happened near 22nd and F Street.  They’ve been turned over to the University of Indianapolis Human Identification Center. The remains […]

INDIANAPOLIS–In Indiana, Libertarians not only run for office, but are allowed a voice in debates. In Indianapolis, Douglas McNaughton, an automation engineer, is running for mayor, and believes the city should have smaller government, and that government shouldn’t provide anything that’s not specifically outlined in the law. While Democrat and Republican candidates are able to […]

(Photo: Leila Veney may be in company with Leon Veney. New Haven Police Department)  FORT WAYNE, Ind.- UPDATE: Leila has been found safe in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Police say her father, Leon Veney turned himself in. Veney took his daughter after a supervised visit on Sunday. When her mother got out of the car, he […]