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@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News & Sports —   Good Day to you at the start of a holiday week that’s getting underway with political snark in a story below but first, it’s also beginning with flames and tragedy. Four children are dead after an early morning fire in a small town in Central Indiana.  Firefighters say […]

@kwellscomm TLCNaptown.com News & Sports The fallout from a former Indianapolis Public Schools counselor, accused of having sex with students continues on this Tuesday. WRTV-TV reports that two IPS school officials have resigned in connection to the proper legal reporting of the alleged child seduction activities of Shana Taylor.  Both, Lela Hester and Shalon Dabney have resigned, […]

The remaining republican presidential candidates prepare to go to battle tonight in Detroit minus one non-politician on the debate stage who reportedly ‘sees no path forward’ and preps to end his campaign, while back here in Indy, metro police investigate a rush hour crash involving an IndyGo bus, and one family’s cat saves their lives. I have […]

An elderly man being injured in an early morning house fire, while Metro Police looking for suspects who took shots at an officer has a department on alert on this stormy Wednesday in Indy. These stories lead Wednesday’s local headlines. Around the nation, the largest mall in the country attempts to legally stop #BlackLivesMatter protests in Minneapolis […]

Indianapolis Firefighters are currently in downtown Indy investigating a reported explosion on West Ohio Street near Meridian in downtown Indianapolis.  WTHR.com is reporting that no one is being evacuated and IFD believes no one is in danger.  Several streets are currently being shut down. Get the full story at WTHR.com 

Two Indianapolis firefighters are recovering from injuries sustained battling flames at an abandoned apartment building on Indy’s northeast side—a fire that officials now say was intentionally set. On Wednesday night, crews were called to the location at East 42nd Street and North Brentwood Drive around 8:30 p.m. where they found the building ablaze. They brought the […]

Updated at 9:40 a.m.:  A part of Capital Avenue has reopened to traffic during this Thursday morning’s commute after several downtown explosions blew several manhole covers in the area of Capital Avenue and North Streets. Several building evacuations are still ongoing and Indianapolis Power and Light (IPL) is working with the Indianapolis Fire Department (IFD) to coordinate […]

Thursday’s News & Sports Headlines with Kim Wells Hancock County sheriff deputies are warning residents to be on the lookout this Thursday morning for an inmate who escaped from deputies while he was in transport to the jail on U.S. 40 in Greenfield just before 6 a.m. this morning. That jail is just east of […]

The Indianapolis Fire Department are on the scene of multiple explosions in front of the Oceanaire restaurant on South Meridian St. in downtown Indianapolis. The official IFD Twitter account reports of an underground transformer explosion that caused a lot of noise and smoke. Underground transformer explosion causes heavy smoke & noise at Meridian & Maryland. […]

Arson investigators are looking into an Indianapolis Metro Police officer’s car which was intentionally set on fire in his north side driveway early Wednesday morning. Firefighters woke up the officer when they were called to put out the fire around 6:00 a.m. Nobody was hurt.

One woman died Thursday morning from her injuries in an early morning west side apartment fire. Though her name hasn’t been released yet, she was a 60-year-old with mobility issues. Initially, she was taken away from the scene at the Pangea Meadows Apartments to Eskenazi Hospital in extremely critical condition. She died there about an hour later from her […]

Thursday Morning News with Kim Wells House Could Vote On Bipartisan Budget Deal Today The U.S. House could vote Thursday on a bipartisan budget deal, funding the federal government for two years. If approved by the House and Senate, the plan would avert another spending showdown in January. Senate and House negotiators said the proposal does not […]