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SPEEDWAY, Ind — On a wet, rainy Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, Simon Pagenaud, driver of the Menards No. 22 for Team Penske, erased a six-second deficit in the final laps to win his third career IndyCar Grand Prix. “I love racing in the rain,” Pagenaud said after the race. “So I thought, ‘I’m just […]
SPEEDWAY, Ind. — It’s race day in Indianapolis! The gates are open at the INDYCAR Grand Prix, and you can purchase your general admission tickets for $35. There will be several events throughout the day, but the main event, the 85-lap, 2.4-mile race is set to start at 3:50 this afternoon. Our partners at WISHTV […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Two people were shot and killed at a Speedway nightclub early this morning. Officers were called to the 3500 block of W 16th Street just after 1 a.m. They found two people outside of Club Venus, and both were pronounced dead at the scene. The victim’s identities have not been released at this time, […]
(TERRE HAUTE, Ind.) – The final step toward a Terre Haute casino could come six months from now. Vigo County voters must approve legalized gambling. The law gives the county election board the option of holding that referendum this November or on the primary ballot next May. Terre Haute Senator Jon Ford, who co-authored the […]
UPDATE: IMPD Deputy Chief Christopher Bailey said at around 4 p.m. Friday that the two children have been found. INDIANAPOLIS — Indy Metro Police are looking for two missing children. IMPD says 4-year-old Gabriel Yates and 2-year-old Serenity Shepherd were taken by Durrell Shepherd in the area of 30th and Baltimore. Shepherd does not have custody […]
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday no charges will be filed at this time in the shootings of two Clark County judges at a downtown Indianapolis White Castle earlier this month. “We have received the results of the investigation conducted to date, including video retrieved from surveillance cameras. At this time, […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Indy is capping the number of scooters downtown. A city board has approved a regulation allowing no more than six scooter companies, each with no more than a thousand scooters. No current operator is close to that number, but Bird, Lime, Spin and Lyft already do business in Indy. And although the Pacers Bikeshare […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Getting kids in schools out of unsafe environments is the idea behind the Child Safety Account Program introduced by Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN). The program has to be tried out in Washington, D.C. first because the federal government only has jurisdiction over the Washington D.C. school system. “If this model works in D.C., we […]
INDIANAPOLIS — A family has been displaced after their home on the city’s south side caught fire Friday morning, the Indianapolis Fire Department said. The fire happened around 7:20 a.m. at a home in the 7800 block of Broadview Drive Friday. Authorities with the Indianapolis Fire Department said a heavy fire broke out in the garage […]
FRENCH LICK, Ind. (WISH) — It’s a place that some people say Larry Bird helped put on the map. But as we found out, French Lick’s history goes back before Indiana was even a state. But where did that name come from? “I have no idea, I do not know,” one visitor said when we asked […]