#WTLCIndyNews: President Obama In Indiana Today; Streak Of Fatal Shootings In Indy Continue; Anger Aimed At Black Family In Cincy Zoo Gorilla Shooting; Serena & Venus Take Court In French Open Today; & More

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@kwellscomm TLCnaptown.com Wednesday News & Sports Headlines

President Obama is expected to talk up the economy on his return trip to Indiana this afternoon. The President will be in Elkhart where he visited early in his first term. White House officials say he wants to come back because the city is doing much better. He’s expected to highlight the lower unemployment rate during his address at Concord Community High School, and then take part in a PBS town hall meeting at Elkhart’s Lerner Theatre.

Violence in the city continues, as one young man in his 20’s was shot and killed on the eastside overnight. This latest shooting stemmed from a fight outside a home near the intersection of Michigan Street and Chester Avenue, according to police. The unidentified victim was found around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. Also, another person was discovered injured about a block away and was taken to Eskenazi Hospital for treatment. Police are continuing their investigation into this case.

We now know more about a home invasion that turned deadly. Indy Metro Police investigators say a man shot and killed inside a home on the city’s east side had broken into the house. Police say James Neal entered the home on South Bosart Avenue Tuesday morning. The family told officers the husband confronted Neal with a shotgun and the two struggled over it.  Police say the wife then got a second weapon from another room and during the struggle, both weapons were fired, hitting and killing Neal.

Six people are recovering after they were injured in a car crash Tuesday night near a roundabout in Carmel. This happened near the roundabout at 116th Street and Spring Mill Road. Police don’t know what led up to their car flipping, but think another car was involved. One passenger had to be cut out with the jaws of life and had sustained serious injuries. Four others were also taken to the hosptal for treatment. One passenger refused treatment on the scene.

Indianapolis’ Children’s Museum is adding some fun to its outside area. The museum says it’ll announce next month plans to add a sports complex. The preliminary designs call for a mini-golf course, a track, a soccer field, as well as space for baseball, football, tennis and hockey. Officials say the price tag is expected to exceed $10 million.

National…

A lot of people online are angry with the parents of a little boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure. The Cincinnati Zoo had to a shoot a 17-year-old rare silverback gorilla Saturday after the boy fell into its habitat.  Tweets from angry animal lovers are blaming the parents with many going as far as to suggest shooting them, not the gorilla. Some of the backlash has turned racial as well. The boy and his family are African-American.

A baby at New Jersey hospital is believed to be the first in the New York-area born with birth defects linked to the Zika virus. Dr. Abdulla Al-Khan headed the team that delivered the baby girl by C-section yesterday, four weeks early. He diagnosed the baby’s microcephaly last Friday through an ultrasound when the visiting 31-year-old Honduran woman went to the hospital. She told him she contracted Zika in Honduras after being bitten by mosquitoes. There is no cure for microcephaly and Dr. Al-Khan says the baby faces developmental delays, motor coordination problems and a shortened life span.

If you have a Myspace account or ever had one, your personal information may be at risk. Myspace was once the lead social media platform and many people who had accounts may have had their information hacked recently. Time Incorporated purchased the website in February.  The company announced Tuesday that the names and passwords from over 360-million accounts have been compromised. 

A new poll out today shows Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton leading Republican Donald Trump in a very tight race. The Quinnipiac University poll has the former Secretary of State ahead of the likely GOP nominee, 45 to 41 percent. The race tightens up even more when a third party candidate is added in.

Sports…

The French Open continues today after play was constantly stopped because of heavy rains over the last couple of days. Both Serena and Venus Williams play today in fourth-round matches

carried over from Monday, due to those wash outs, something that hasn’t happened in 16 years. Defending champion Serena plays No. 18 Elina Svitolina. Venus takes on No. 8 Timea Bacsinszky.

A labor group is getting involved in “deflategate.” The AFL-CIO has joined Tom Brady’s fight to get his four-game suspension for the use of underinflated footballs in the 2015 AFC title game against the Indianapolis Colts overturned. The labor federation says NFL commissioner Roger Goodell acted arbitrarily as an employer seeking to justify his own disciplinary decision rather than as a neutral arbitrator considering an appeal.

Weather…

Partly cloudy with showers or thunderstorms on this ‘Hump Day.’ The High: 88 degrees. 

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