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2 local educators are top 25 finalists for Indiana ‘Teacher of the Year’
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) presents the Indiana Teacher of the Year (INTOY) program each year. It works to inspire, rejuvenate, and celebrate the teaching profession by recognizing outstanding teachers from across the state. On Friday, Indiana’s top 25 Teacher of the Year award finalists were...
Who is Luke Whitlock? Olympic swimming schedule for Indiana teenager
Luke Whitlock, a Noblesville 18-year-old, finished second in the 800-meter freestyle in the U.S. Olympic Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium. He has made a meteoric rise in the event. As a 15-year-old freshman at Noblesville High School, Whitlock finished 15th in the 500-yard freestyle in the IHSAA state meet. Given that's the longest...
Focus on Food: Chef makes wraps with local goods
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – WISH-TV is committed to focusing on family and the community, including helping to assure every family gets to enjoy healthy meals. Every single day, hundreds of thousands of people across central Indiana go hungry. Friday morning on News 8 “Daybreak,” viewers were treated to a mouthwatering segment with Pam Goodman, the gourmet […]
Deadly Listeria Outbreak Hits Midwest States
Dozens sick and 2 dead as a new listeria outbreak from deli meat spreads through the Midwest to the East Coast. The CDC is currently investigating the source of this most recent listeria outbreak and has so far connected this issue to meat sliced at delis,. Many people in this...
Indiana lawmakers lower age to sell and serve alcohol
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana lawmakers passed a bill that now gives 18-year-olds the opportunity to sell or serve alcohol. Senate Bill 146 lowered the age from 19 to 18 during the 2024 legislative session. According to the law, restaurants and hotels in Indiana can now hire servers who are 18...
Indiana’s top 10 fashion trends, retail study finds
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — New research from fast-fashion company Boohoo reveals Indiana’s favorite fashion trends for 2024. Boohoo analyzed average monthly Google searches for various fashion items to determine the most popular trends in the state. Top Fashion Trends in Indiana: “We love discovering which fashion trends people are embracing each season. TikTok and Instagram are […]
Cellphones, reading, state testing: See what’s new as Indiana students head back to school
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters INDIANAPOLIS (CHALKBEAT) — Across the state, students are heading back to school soon. Students in Beech Grove and Warren Township start classes this week, followed by the rest of Marion County’s districts next week. With a new school year comes new rules about cellphones in […]
Local Food Week starts Friday
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - Local Food Week began Friday for the fifth year in a row. Local farm tours and food events will be hosted throughout northeast Indiana until Aug. 4. This year’s events include more than 110 tours, workshops, hayrides, tastings, dinners and celebrations hosted by 40 different farms, markets, restaurants, artisan food producers, and organizations across 7 Northeast Indiana counties.
Indiana Family Star Party Invites You to View the Stars August 2nd and 3rd
On August 2nd and 3rd you can take in the 21st Indiana Family Star Party! You will be a part of the largest astronomy gathering in the state and one of the largest astronomy events in the midwest. Come to Camp Cullom (near Frankfort) to enjoy the dark rural skies...
Pesticides as big a cancer risk as smoking, study finds
(The Hill) — Pesticides may cause cancer on a level equivalent to smoking cigarettes, a new study has found. The widespread use of pesticides may lead to hundreds of thousands of additional cancer cases in major corn-producing states like Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Ohio — even for Americans who don’t work on farms, according to findings published Thursday in […]
Nearly all Jefferson County Clerk's Office locations now open. What to know
All of the branches of the Jefferson County Clerk's Office, with the exception of the downtown location, are now open, communications director Ashley Tinius said Saturday. The agency had to close its offices for several days following a ransomware attack on its computer systems, The Courier Journal previously reported. The Dixie Highway branch had...
Carlik Jones lights it up in Olympic debut
Making his Olympic debut, former Louisville standout Carlik Jones scored a team-high 19 points as South Sudan rallied for a 90-79 win in the men’s basketball opener for both teams on Sunday. The victory marked South Sudan’s first ever in Olympic play. Jones, who turned heads with a...
Miss Cellany Talkin’ ‘Bout This an’ That
A Garfield Sunday where everyone is happy about everything. Just a coincidence that it is Jon Arbuckle’s (and Jim Davis‘s) birthday?. Some comic strip ephemera. MIke Lynch posts a circa 1973 Courier Journal/Louisville Times comic strip promotional pamphlet featuring comic strips with creator profiles. Ten of the seventeen comics are still around today, though the cartoonists aren’t.
Woman in hospital after shooting on West Broadway
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A woman is in the hospital after a shooting on West Broadway Friday night, according to Louisville Metro police. LMPD spokesperson Dwight Mitchell said around 11:45 p.m. officers were called to the area of 37th Street and West Broadway on the report of a shooting. When they arrived, they were told a woman who had been shot in the leg was being taken to UofL Hospital by private means.
Field hockey fans gather to watch USA women's team take on Argentina
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Day one of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris kicked off Saturday and fans of the USA Field Hockey Team gathered at Gravely Brewing in Louisville to cheer on their team. For some in the crowd, Saturday’s watch party was a source of inspiration, like Emma...
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