You thought participation trophies were bad… Several colleges around the country are adapting a new grading system to their curriculum for incoming freshman: there is none! That’s right, the universities decided to make the transition into upper education easier for young adults by simply dismissing the letter grade system. The term “un-grading” is a way […]
INDIANAPOLIS–Actor and comedian Will Ferrell was in Indianapolis on Monday. First, he was spotted at a Walmart in Beech Grove. Then he attended the Indiana Pacers home game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse when the team faced the Philadelphia 76ers. Before the game, he asked Pacers forward Aaron Nesmith, who didn’t play in Monday’s game because of […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A body was found by firefighters Friday night as they dealt with flames at a maintenance building. WANE 15 reports that firefighters were called near Promenade Park, where they found the TJ Nowak Supply Company, Inc. maintenance building and several nearby porta-potties smoking and/or on fire. Firefighters were able to control […]
INDIANAPOLIS--A three-year-old boy in Indianapolis accidentally shot himself Friday morning. He is alive but injured. IMPD says the incident happened on the south side on Blankenship Drive. That’s in a neighborhood near West Southport Road and South Harding Street. They believe the boy was shot in the hand but is “awake and breathing.” He was […]
BOONE COUNTY — A Zionsville man has been arrested after a short police chase that led to him getting pelted with pepper balls. According to The Lebanon Reporter, someone called 911 late Thursday night after noticing that a truck was blocking an intersection and would not move. The driver – later identified as 39-year-old Michael […]
CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI.— A six-year-old boy from Michigan ordered nearly a thousand dollars of food using his dad’s phone. Mason Stonehouse from northeast of Detroit had the phone just before bedtime Saturday and ordered shrimp, chicken sandwiches, ice cream, and more without his father, Keith Stonehouse, knowing about it. The food orders started to show […]
VERMILLION COUNTY, Ind.–A police officer accidentally fired his gun at South Vermillion High School Thursday morning and a student was injured. At approximately 9:35 a.m., Deputy Tim DisPennett, a nineteen-year veteran of the Vermillion County Sheriff’s Department, was instructing a law enforcement class at South Vermillion High School. The classroom instruction was based on law […]
SHIPSHEWANA, Ind.–A man from Florida was killed in a crash that happened in LaGrange County Sunday night. State police say Kubanychbek Abdyrakhmanov, 41, of Coral Springs, Florida, hit a deer in the left lane on I-90 (the Indiana Toll Road) with his Lexus 460 passenger car. He got out to take a look at the […]
NOBLESVILLE, Ind.–The store, My Inner Baby, closed in Noblesville August 10. A judge heard arguments Thursday over whether it can reopen. Noblesville city leaders say the store violated its zoning ordinance. The Noblesville Board of Zoning Appeals said the store violated its “light industrial” zoning status by selling sex toys. When it was open, it […]
INDIANAPOLIS–Downed power lines caused a closure of Interstate 70 in both directions near Rural Street and Keystone Avenue east of downtown Indianapolis Thursday morning. “An excavator was working in a construction zone and struck some power lines and knocked them down across the entire interstate. Certainly, it wasn’t on purpose. He had the boom up […]
