(INDIANAPOLIS) – Using your cell phone while driving will now pack an extra penalty. The BMV will now zap you with four points on your license for violating the hands-free law. 20 points in a three-year span gets your license suspended. State police have issued five-thousand tickets and about twice as many warnings since the […]
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — After poring over reports from the U.S. Department of Labor, I-Team 8 has found that Indiana made close to $100 million in unemployment insurance overpayments in 2020. That number doesn’t include another $13 million in overpayments this year. CLICK HERE for the overpayment waiver form in English CLICK HERE for the overpayment waiver form in Spanish Hundreds of complaints […]
(ZIONSVILLE, Ind.) – Indy is taking a regional approach to fighting gun violence, with a nudge from the General Assembly. Legislators voted in April to create a “crime guns task force,” allowing Indy Metro Police to work together with police departments in seven surrounding counties on a unified plan for tracing guns used in crimes. […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Five years into a 20-year local road and bridge program, legislators are looking at whether it should be tweaked. The Community Crossings program was created by then-Governor Mike Pence in 2016, and made permanent under Governor Holcomb the following year. The fund will surpass a billion dollars in grants awarded later this year. […]
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit Tuesday against two management companies over dangerous and unlivable conditions at two Indy-area apartment complexes. The Attorney General’s Office is suing Aloft Mgt., LLC and Fox Lake AHF, Inc. for allowing the Fox Club and Lakeside Pointe apartment complexes to “fall into egregious disrepair, endangering […]
INDIANAPOLIS — West Nile Virus has been found in mosquitoes sampled in Vigo County, says the Indiana Department of Health. No human cases of West Nile virus have been found in Indiana so far this year. The Indiana Dept. of Health expects to see additional West Nile activity as mosquito season progresses. “Many of us are […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Indiana has resumed expanded unemployment benefits. Governor Holcomb announced last month the state would opt out of the federally funded $300 add-on to jobless benefits. Indiana is one of 26 states to say no to the extra money, but a judge ruled three weeks ago that under state law, Holcomb doesn’t have that […]
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the state temporarily resume pandemic unemployment benefits as part of an earlier court’s ruling. The court denied a request from the state government to stay a preliminary injunction calling for Indiana to resume expanded federal unemployment benefits of $300 a week. The state government […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – Health officials are expecting a fresh resurgence of coronavirus in Indiana as the Delta variant picks up steam. Indiana’s COVID death rate has slowed to a trickle, averaging three a day. But state health commissioner Kristina Box says cases and hospitalizations are edging up. The state has had 400 new cases two days […]
DOHA — Governor Eric Holcomb on Friday concluded an economic development trip to Qatar. During the trip, Holcomb met with government officials and business leaders to work on establishing new business relationships in the Middle East. He was accompanied by a delegation of Hoosiers, including Indiana Secretary of Commerce, Brad Chambers. “Indiana and Qatar share […]
