@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News  —    A federal judge is granting permission to accused South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof to represent himself in his federal death penalty trial. Before granting his motion Monday morning, Judge Richard Gergel called Roof’s decision “unwise.” Jury selection is currently underway in the upcoming trial. Roof will stand trial for […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News  —  The weapon in today’s attack at Ohio State University is reported to be primarily by butcher knife. The university’s police chief told the press today that the attacker drove up onto a curb and struck several pedestrians, and then started assaulting people with the knife. So far there’s no word on the […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News & Sports  — Good day to you on this Thanksgiving Eve… Anderson Police are continuing their investigation into a shooting that left one teenager dead at the hand of his own teenaged brother. Police said the teen’s shooting death appears to be accidental but the county prosecutor will ultimately decide whether there […]

@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 —   Good Day to You!!! Dozens of people accused of having ties to a major drug enterprise are now facing charges. Officials say hundreds of law enforcement officers from collaborating agencies made more than 40 arrests on Thursday during a coordinated series of search warrants. They targeted an organization responsible for […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com Local News — Strawberries are in today’s Central Indiana Health Alert. Anyone who’s consumed strawberries at any restaurant in Marion, Hamilton or Hendricks County over the past two weeks should be on the lookout for signs of Hepatitis A. The Indiana State Department of Health says frozen strawberries linked to an outbreak of […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News & Sports  — Good day to you…but it may not be for some working class Hoosiers on this Tuesday. Rexnord Bearings is moving more than 300 jobs from here in Indianapolis to Mexico. Company officials made it official on Monday. They’d announced tentative plans to relocate in October, but are confirming their final […]

@KwellsComm  TLCNaptown.com News — First a hung jury is the result of the latest court case where a now former-police officer shot and killed a young black man during an interaction. Then young people take it to the streets with the ones already there. Click the media player below to hear the latest reaction to […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown.com News  — Good day to you on this Veterans Day 2016! More on that shortly… Flags at state facilities across Indiana will be at half-staff this weekend. They’re being lowered Saturday for Avon-native Army Private Dakota Stump, who was killed in a car accident at Fort Hood. Stump disappeared from Fort Hood in […]

@kwellscomm TLCNaptown.com News & Talk — A multiple award-winning poet and educator is visiting Indianapolis to share his gift of children’s literature and encouragement on Saturday, November 12. The Central Library location of the Indianapolis Public Library will be a feast of rhyme and verse at 12 Noon with Kwame Alexander and you’re invited. Alexander […]

@kwellscomm  TLCNaptown News  — Just as word that an anti-Trump rally is being planned for Saturday at 5 p.m. here in Indianapolis on Monument Circle comes word that extra security is being placed at the governor’s mansion at 46th and Meridian Streets. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is expected to return to Indiana today. (See the fanfare […]

@kwellscomm TLCNaptown.com National News  — Five people were shot–two critically in downtown Seattle on Wednesday. Police officials there say an argument led to this shooting. Police say this incident was not related to an anti-Trump protest rally nearby, where thousands of protesters marched through the area many of them chanting “not my president” and other slogans. […]