Friday's weather system from Hurricane Helene brought damaging winds, the National Weather Service recording a 68-mph gust at the Indianapolis International Airport. Those winds causing significant damage across AES Indiana and Duke Energy's service areas, ver 97 thousand AES Indiana customers lost power. AES Indiana reporting 2,000 separate incidents – meaning 2,000 separate jobs – that their crews are responding to across their service territory.
Over 30 Indiana Schools Waive Fees for National College Application Week
The East Central region of Indiana is on the rebound, making the difficult transition from large automotive manufacturing-based industry into other areas. The traditional manufacturing heritage of east central Indiana runs deep, the city of Marion is learning how to thrive in a new landscape, after the closure of its RCA Thomson factory. One of those areas is education and creating skilled workers.
A federal grand jury in Indianapolis has indicted an Illinois man in a scam involving primarily elderly people, telling them to convert their savings and retirement accounts to cash or gold bars, and to provide those funds to law enforcement for “protection.” The FBI is seeking help to find the fugitive from Illinois.
At the very top, Gov. Eric Holcomb’s successor will become one of the highest paid governors in the nation while other offices will see raises between 44% and 66%. One other office getting a pay raise will be on the November ballot: the race for attorney general. Incumbent Republican Todd Rokita is running for reelection and faces a challenge from Democrat Destiny Wells. The final version of the budget included a pay raise for six of Indiana’s executive leaders: the governor, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, the attorney general, the state treasurer and the state comptroller.
Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced various criminal charges for nine individuals involved in "street takeovers" in Indianapolis last weekend. "Street takeovers" traditionally involve groups of cars blocking off an intersection to create space for exhibition driving.
An Indiana University student has been arrested after being accused of raping two women on campus. 20-year-old Noah Apgar of Greenwood was wanted on five counts of rape, Level 3 felonies, for incidents at fraternity houses on campus in the past two weeks.
A Bloomington woman charged with a federal hate crime for allegedly stabbing a Chinese American IU student has pleaded guilty. That attack happened on a city bus in January 2023, Billie Davis agreed to plead guilty to a charge of committing a hate crime, she will be sentenced December 3 and faces a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison, and three years of supervised release.
Around 1pm Monday, The Boone County Sheriff’s Office responded to an accident involving a dump truck and a pickup on State Road 47 East.
September is National Voter Registration Month, a great time to register to vote or update your registration before the October 7 deadline. Early voting starts October 8.
An Indiana death row inmate who murdered four people in Fort Wayne in 1997 will be executed Dec. 18, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Joseph Corcoran, 49, would be the first Indiana death row inmate executed since 2009.
The Colts place an Indianapolis native on Injured Reserve after an injury suffered Sunday will result in surgery. JuJu Brents a starting Colts cornerback , who played at his high school football at Warren Central, tweaked the knee during in Sunday’s opening day loss to Houston, but an MRI revealed a more significant problem which will require surgery.