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FRANKLIN, Ind. (WISH) — The Johnson County prosecutor resigned Wednesday after his sentencing for a March domestic violence incident, according to an amended plea agreement obtained by News 8. Bradley Cooper pleaded guilty in April to charges connected to accusations that he beat his former fiancée and held her against her will inside his Trafalgar home March 4 […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A 17-year-old Bloomington teen was charged as an adult with attempted murder in connection with the stabbing of a 13-year-old summer camp student at Indiana University, according to charging documents filed Tuesday in Monroe Circuit Court. Dongwook “Mikey” Ko was also charged with aggravated battery, kidnapping with a deadly weapon, strangulation and confinement […]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Criticism from the police union for South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Harvey Mills, president of the South Bend Fraternal Order of Police, says Buttigieg has been “falsely implying that South Bend police are racist”, especially in his presidential campaign. Mills said instead of apologizing he sent them pizza. “Our officers are brave […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Dallas has easily held off Indy’s effort to dislodge its entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, for most people making sandwiches at the same time. About 800 people filed onto the field at Lucas Oil Stadium to assemble three-thousand turkey and ham-and-cheese sandwiches. That’s not even a third of the way […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Teachers aren’t part of last week’s announced plan to dip into the state surplus, but Governor Holcomb says they will be, indirectly. Senate Democrats’ fiscal leader Karen Tallian (D-Portage) and the state party have slammed Holcomb for spending 300-million dollars from a higher-than-expected surplus without spending a dime of it on teacher pay. […]
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A man from Indianapolis is charged with endangering the welfare of a dozen Indiana children. Shawn Floyd, 54, is accused of forcing twelve children from Indiana to sell candy for his profit in Kentucky, according to Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear. Investigators said Floyd also forced the children to share a […]
MUNCIE, Ind. — Federal authorities have arrested the district administrator of the Muncie Sanitary District and a local businessman, in the latest chapter of a three-year investigation into corruption at Muncie City Hall. The Muncie Star Press says Debra Nicole Grigsby, 44, of Muncie, and Tony Franklin, 60, of Yorktown have been indicted by a […]
INDIANAPOLIS–Big trucks can’t stop instantly. They need time and space. State troopers are reminding you of that and they wrote tickets during a special patrol Tuesday morning. A state trooper spotted people who weren’t driving right and radioed to other troopers who stopped them and gave tickets. “Commercial vehicles are big, they’re heavy. They take […]
INDIANAPOLIS — The driver of the semi that killed a mother and her twin daughters in a crash showed no remorse, say court documents. State police say Bruce Pollard had no emotion when they informed him the seven-vehicle crash he caused Sunday on I-465 killed a family. They say Pollard was only concerned about his […]
WASHINGTON— Vice President Mike Pence visited the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in D.C. Tuesday on the 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission. Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 was spacesuit on display for the first time in 13 years. Pence shared his own experience of watching the moon landing as a 10-year-old boy. “I […]