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Crews fight Greenfield apartment fire
A fire that could be seen over 20 miles away Saturday is now being inspected close up. An elite team of federal investigators gets to work Tuesday in Indianapolis looking for whatever sparked a ...
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Suspect in Waynesville slaying now faces federal gun charges
A fire that could be seen over 20 miles away Saturday is now being inspected close up. An elite team of federal investigators gets to work Tuesday in Indianapolis looking for whatever sparked a ...
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Sheriffs deputy rescued from collapsed staircase
A Marion County Sheriff's deputy had minor injuries after a staircase collapsed under him while he was chasing a suspect. It happened at 1622 Draper Street at around 1:00 pm. Firefighters were ...
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Shooting suspect indicted on fed. charge
INDIANAPOLIS - The man suspected in a quadruple homicide has been indicted on federal charges. United States Attorney Joseph Hogsettannounced the indictment of Samuel SalleeTuesday, claiming Salleeillegally possessed a firearm. Because of prior convictions,Salleewas not legally permitted to possess a firearm. The indictment came one day after the Bartholomew County Sheriff revealed that Sallee ...
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Grandparent’s dog kills boy 6
NEW ORLEANS – A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb has been arrested after authorities say he told them he used TV wrestling moves on his 5-year-old half-sister who died from her ...
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TV wrestling moves kill girl 5 13-year-old arrested
NEW ORLEANS – A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb has been arrested after authorities say he told them he used TV wrestling moves on his 5-year-old half-sister who died from her injuries. Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s spokesman Col. John Fortunato said the boy was arrested Tuesday after a coroner’s investigation found the girl died of multiple injuries, including broken ...
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Mistrial in Detroit girl’s shooting death by officer
DETROIT – A judge Tuesday declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl. Wayne County Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed jurors about an hour after urging them to keep working Tuesday. The jury sent three notes, the last one indicating it still couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict on the third ...
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New Canada-Indiana Intermodal Service to Offer Matchback Options
west coast ports of Prince Rupert and Vancouver to Indianapolis. INRD is building a more than $2 million intermodal ramp and container yard at its Senate Avenue Intermodal Terminal to complement the service.The matchback process will include finding export loads to fill import containers that would otherwise go back to the port empty. Midwest Commodities, which specializes in loading containers ...
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Dangerous plant causes burns blindness
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A dangerous plant is popping up in some parts of Indiana. It is called "giant hogweed" and The Department of Natural Resources is warning Hoosiers to avoid the plant. Philip Marshall, Division Director for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Entomology & Plant Pathology says giant hogweed isn't deadly but it can cause blindness and ...
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Apartment building burns in Hancock Co.
GREENFIELD, Ind. (WISH) - A firefighter suffered smoke inhalation Tuesday afternoon while fighting a fire at an apartment building in Hancock County. The fire was at Greenfield Village Apartments in the 1600 block of Village Drive West in Greenfield. Greenfield Fire Chief Jim Roberts said the fire started around 3 p.m. in the back bedroom of a second floor apartment. Four residents were home at ...
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Storms possible Tues. afternoon night
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Storms are possible in Central Indiana Tuesday afternoon and evening, prompting a severe thunderstorm watch in counties south of Indianapolis. The watch is until 10 p.m. and includes Johnson, Shelby, Morgan, Monroe and Bartholomew counties. For all counties ...
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Vogel Spoelstra Part of Growing Trend in NBA
MIAMI - Frank Vogel and Erik Spoelstra, whose teams play for the Eastern Conference championship in Miami on Monday night, can trace their coaching paths to the same place. A dark, lonely, eyeball-burning place: the video room. They're representative of a growing trend among NBA executives of hiring nerds to coach their teams, guys who didn't rise up from the college coaching ranks or ...
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Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for southern Indiana counties
A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until 10:00 pm for several counties south of Indianapolis. The following counties are under the watch: BARTHOLOMEW, BROWN, CLAY, DAVIESS, DECATUR, GIBSON, ...
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Police Dad rode bike drunk with toddler
INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis dad was arrested Monday night after reportedly taking his toddler on a drunken bike ride. Indianapolis Metro Police Department officers were called to the scene of a domestic dispute, where a woman told them her 3-year-old daughter's father, Major Jones, had taken the girl and left. Police said they found Jones, 53, on a bicycle holding his daughter, wobbling ...
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US Supreme Court suspends attorney in fen-phen suit
CINCINNATI – The U.S. Supreme Court has suspended prominent Cincinnati class-action attorney Stanley Chesley from practicing law before the court after his Kentucky disbarment. The Supreme Court order Monday said Chesley has 40 days to prove why he shouldn’t be disbarred from appearing before the justices. The Kentucky Supreme Court disbarred Chesley in March for unethical conduct in ...
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3 accused of enslaving mother daughter for 2 years
CLEVELAND – Authorities in Ohio have arrested three people on charges of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over a two-year period. Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday the three forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed their pets better than the victims. The break in the case came when Ashland police, checking ...
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Guilty verdict in fire that killed young children
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. – Jurors have found a southwestern Indiana man guilty of setting a fire that killed his fiancee’s two children. The jury returned its verdict against Jeffrey Weisheit after deliberating about 90 minutes Tuesday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Weisheit was convicted of murder and arson in the April 2010 deaths of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and 5-year-old ...
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Dunes beach opens after unknown substance scare
PORTER, Ind. – The Coast Guard says it can’t find any sign of shiny metallic flakes in Lake Michigan that led to beach closures. Coast Guard Seaman James Connor said a helicopter brought in from Traverse City, Mich., to look for the substance so far has spotted only pollen blooms. Beaches at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Indiana Dunes State Park were closed Monday after ...
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Dozens die in attack on Iraq mosque
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi authorities say a suicide bomber has blown himself up amid worshippers in a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing eleven people and wounding ...
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Unknown substance closes beaches
PORTER, Ind. (AP) - The Coast Guard says it can't find any sign of shiny metallic flakes in Lake Michigan that led to beach closures. Coast Guard Seaman James Connor says a helicopter brought in from Traverse City, Mich., to look for the substance so far has spotted only pollen blooms. Beaches at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Indiana Dunes State Park were closed Monday after ...
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Site to mark freeing of last slaves
PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) - Gibson County residents will gather this week to mark the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation as part of a Juneteenth celebration. Lyles Station Historic School will host a three-day observance that will commemorate the freeing of slaves in Galveston, Texas. Stan Madison of the Lyles Station Historic Preservation Corp. tells ...
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Police get real-world training
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Members of the Muncie Police Department are getting some high-tech firearms training without leaving City Hall. A crew from Indiana Simulator Systems visited the department last week to give officers a chance to test their responses without risk of ...
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Cops arrest 1 for biking drunk with kid
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - An Indianapolis man was arrested Monday night after he endangered the life of his 3-year-old child. Officers were called to the 2000 block of North Tibbs Avenue just after 8:30 p.m. Monday night on a disturbance between two people. Police say a woman was having problems with the father of her children. The woman said he was drunk and wanted him to turn over the key to her ...
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Boy 12 accidentally shot by brother
NORTH VERNON, Ind. (WISH) - The condition of a 12-year-old boy is unknown Tuesday after he was accidentally shot in the head by his 16-year-old brother. 24-Hour News 8 news ...
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Investigators to begin inspection of Belmont Ave. fire scene
A fire that could be seen over 20 miles away Saturday is now being inspected close up. An elite team of federal investigators gets to work Tuesday in Indianapolis looking for whatever sparked a ...
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Indianapolis mass transit system no closer
Indianapolis is the 14th largest city in the world, but in the area of mass transit, its ranked 100th in terms of the quality of public transport in the city and surrounding regional areas. This is a state of affairs that lawmakers and city leaders have acknowledged cannot last, but finding the money and the necessary will of leadership to implement the construction of a mass transit system has proven difficult and recent events suggest the project may never find traction.
The value of mass transit on a regional level has never been in question, for twenty years the city has been exploring the idea of an integrated mass transit system incorporating the city’s already existing bus system with light and heavy rail lines, with commuter (heavy) rail systems connecting the city of Indianapolis with the wider region and light rail providing an intra-city, urban transport service. Read more
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