106.7 WTLC Local News Headlines with Kim Wells

@kwellscomm TLCNaptown.com Local News  — Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett is doing his part to keep our city beautiful and he’s encouraging Indy’s citizens to join. Community leaders will join Mayor Hogsett in Douglass Park on Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. to announce the new “It’s My City” initiative which calls for Indy’s residents to help […]

@kwellscomm @1067WTLC TLCNaptown.com News  —  The funeral for Indianapolis poet/author Mari Evans is scheduled for today. The service will be open to the public. Evan’s service will be held 1 p.m. at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church at 100 West 86th Street. Evans was a prominent member of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She […]

@kwellscomm @1067WTLC TLCNaptown.com Local News  —  Indianapolis Metro Police are asking for your help to find a 14-year-old with diminished mental capacity who ran away from home. Missing Persons detectives are searching for Lamariona Larkin (click her name to see her photo), who left home in the 7200 block of Kingsford Drive just before 8:30 p.m. Sunday night. Police talked […]

@kwellscomm @1067WTLC TLCNaptown.com Local & National News and Sports —  Good day to you on this rainy Fat Tuesday!!! The man who admits to raping and killing a western Indiana toddler is heading to prison for 60 years. A judge sentenced Kyle Parker on Monday to six decades behind bars for last year’s killing of 15-month-old Shaylyn Ammerman. […]

@kwellscomm @1067WTLC TLCNaptown.com Local News — Indiana’s Republicans spent time at the statehouse on Thursday rolling back the policies of former-Governor Mike Pence, according to The Indianapolis Star. Many of the reversals affect African-American Hoosiers directly—from a critical pardon-to-giving an assist to a Northwest Indiana community poisoned through no fault of their own—a new administration […]

@kwellscomm TLCNaptown.com News  —   In an UPDATE to a story reported on the #WTLCIndyNews & #PraiseIndyNews… THE STUDIO HAS PUSHED BACK THIS DOCUMENTARY’S RELEASE, according to a social media post by the event’s organizer. THEREFORE, THE PLANNED SATURDAY EVENT HAS BEEN PUSHED BACK AS WELL. “I’m Not Your Negro” is the new Academy Award-nominated […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News  — Margot Lee Shetterly, who is the author of the book that inspired the film which carries the same name “Hidden Figures” is visiting Indiana on this busy Wednesday. That film was nominated for an Academy Award on Tuesday in the Best Pictures category and landed a Best Supporting Actress nomination for […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News & Sports  —   Activists and concerned citizens are meeting up Wednesday to protest proposed legislation moving through the statehouse during this session. They want to stop ‘Senate Bill 285’ and ask you to join them this afternoon at the statehouse to voice your concerns. SB 285 was authored by Republican Senator Jim Tomes, […]

@kwellscomm TLCNaptown.com Political News  — Indiana’s newly sworn-in leader will speak to Hoosiers across the state Tuesday night when he delivers his first State of the State address before a joint session of the Indiana General Assembly in the House of Representatives chamber at the Indiana Statehouse. Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb’s address gets underway at 7 p.m. Eastern […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News  — Friday the 13th is a lucky day for local disabled veterans thanks to the staff and student/athletes at Indianapolis Public Schools  Indianapolis Public Schools’ District Athletics Department, also known as ‘IPS Athletics’ is celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior with a ‘day on’ for area disabled […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News  —  Indianapolis-area hospitals are busy treating several students for injuries after two school buses that were carrying them collided on the city’s northeast side. This rear-end crash happened about 8:30 a.m. on Friday morning in the area of North Shadeland Avenue and Fall Creek Road in Lawrence Township. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officials say numerous high […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News  — A memorial will be held today with funeral services on Wednesday for four sisters who were killed in a fire in their home last week in Flora Indiana. According to The Lafayette Journal and Courier newspaper, the community will gather at a memorial from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today at the […]