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CARMEL, Ind. (WISH) — Gov. Mike Pence is back in Indiana after spending part of the weekend in New Jersey with Donald Trump. The trip fueled speculation that Pence is being vetted for Trump’s vice presidential pick. But the governor says all they did was play golf. Pence spoke to the media while at Connor Prairie on Sunday evening. He and his wife, Karen Pence, were there to watch the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Fourth of July concert. The couple and one of their sons made the trip to New Jersey to meet with Donald and Melania Trump. The governor wouldn’t...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A shooting on the east side of Indianapolis on Saturday left two men dead and a 3-year-old hurt, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. IMPD says people were gathering at a home in the 2300 block of Magnolia Place following a funeral when gunshots rang out around 6:30 p.m. 32-year-old Justin Sims was pronounced dead at the scene. 26-year-old Dangelo Brown was rushed to Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital but later died as a result of his injuries a few hours later. A 3-year-old shot was taken to Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health for...

Donald Trump met with potential VP pick Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Friday, according to the New York Times. Pence is believed to be on Trump's vice presidential shortlist, which the presumptive nominee has said is down to four or five people. “Mr. Trump is meeting with a number of Republican leaders in the run-up to the convention in Cleveland, and he has a good relationship with Governor Pence,” Trump communications director Jason Miller told the Times when asked about the meeting. Trump previously said that he wouldn’t make his VP announcement until the Republican National Convention later this month, but...

In a nine-word per curiam decision, eight justices of the United States Supreme Court have revealed they are deadlocked in a 4 to 4 divide on the new immigration procedures of the Obama administration, with its executive decision to not deport the immigrant parents of children born in the United States (thus citizens) and give them legal status but less than citizenship in the process. The State of Texas, joined by 25 others states, filed a lawsuit to block this executive action, which affects between 4 and 5 million immigrants in the United States. The case was before the Supreme...

NBC News has learned the Trump campaign is moving into a new phase of the running mate search: the interviews. Today, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will travel to meet with Donald Trump this weekend. Sources tell NBC News Pence is being formally vetted for consideration to join the Trump ticket. See link

A federal judge blocked an Indiana law Thursday that would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus' genetic abnormalities, saying that the state does not have the authority to limit a woman's reasons for ending a pregnancy. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted a preliminary injunction requested by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which argued that the law was unconstitutional and violated women's privacy rights. The law was set to take effect Friday. North Dakota is the only other state that prohibits abortions because of genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome or because of the race,...

SOUTH BEND — A convicted drunken driver will serve up to 27 months in prison for a January crash that left a veteran South Bend firefighter with a severe head injury, just three months short of his planned retirement. Oswaldo Mendez, 40, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a single count of driving while intoxicated, causing serious bodily injury, for a crash that left Mike Kowalski in a temporary coma before he was transferred to a nursing home. With the 27-month prison term, St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Hurley ordered a punishment just shy of the maximum 2 1/2-year...

Akram I. Musleh long sought to join ISIS, federal court documents allege, hoping to travel overseas to join the terrorism group as a fighter. The Brownsburg teenager's alleged involvement began on social media in 2013, according to court documents, when he posted videos of terrorist leaders. FBI agents spoke with Musleh back then, hoping to prevent him from pursuing extremism. The teen told investigators he posted those videos simply to understand Islam's history. His activity grew more alarming when Musleh, 18, snapped pictures of himself standing in front of a flag associated with ISIS and asked young people in a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police found a loaded assault rifle with magazines rigged to allow 60 shots to be fired in quick succession, along with 15 pounds of chemicals mixed and ready to explode in the car of an Indiana man who said he was headed to a gay pride event, authorities revealed Tuesday. James Wesley Howell, 20, of Charlestown, also had two other loaded rifles, ammunition, a stun gun, a buck knife and a security badge when he was arrested early Sunday in Santa Monica, they said. [snip] ... there was an assault rifle in his car's passenger seat...

In Santa Monica, Howell repeatedly knocked on a resident’s door and window, police said. "When I saw the rifle, I started crying," said the resident, who asked not to be identified. "I thought, the guy is coming to kill me." The woman hid in the bathroom. "So, ... if he shoots me, he won't get me," she said. Officers who responded found him seated in a car with Indiana plates that held three assault rifles, high-capacity magazines, ammunition and a 5-gallon bucket of chemicals, police said. Howell’s apparent references to the L.A. Pride event in West Hollywood, as described and...

James Wesley Howell, a 20-year-old Indiana man, was arrested in California on Sunday while headed toward the LA Pride festival, allegedly with an arsenal of weapons. Officers arrested Howell about 5 a.m. PT after getting a call about a prowler, Los Angeles Interim Undersheriff Neal Tyler said. Howell told police he was looking for a friend to attend the LA Pride festival in West Hollywood, Tyler said. Police found him sitting in a car registered in Indiana and a search turned up three assault rifles, high-capacity magazines, ammunition and a 5-gallon bucket with chemicals that could be used to create...

Santa Monica's police chief says she was incorrect when she said a heavily armed Indiana man told investigators he was headed to a gay pride parade in order to do harm. Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said in a tweet to The Associated Press that her earlier statement on James Howell was inaccurate. The chief said Howell had only told police that he was going to the event known as LA Pride, and he did not say what he intended to do there.... The [man's Facebook] page's most recent public post, from June 3, shows a photo comparing Adolf Hitler to Hillary...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Authorities in Santa Monica arrested an Indiana man Sunday morning ahead of the LA PRIDE parade in nearby West Hollywood after the discovery of possible explosives in a car, according to California law enforcement. Just before 3 p.m. ET, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told the Associated Press a heavily armed man was arrested, and that man told police during his arrest he was going to the PRIDE parade. Investigators removed items from the suspect's white Acura sedan and placed them on the sidewalk near the driver's side door, according to KNBC. Santa Monica Chief of...

Early Sunday, there was a call into Santa Monica police of a suspected prowler near Olympic Boulevard and 11th Street. Patrol officers responded and encountered an individual who told officers he was waiting for a friend. That led officers to inspect the car and found several weapons a lot of ammunition as well as tannerite, an ingredient that could be used to create a pipe bomb. The car had Indiana plates. He did make comments that he was in town for the pride event in WeHo this weekend. Source said they did not know of any connection between what happened...

Before getting into the racially-challenged Judge Curiel, here is a brief history of La Raza for those who are, yet, unfamiliar with the organization. I started writing about La Raza (and MEChA) in 2006. Both of these are virulent racist anti-white organizations that want to have US land ceded to Mexico, will affect riots and all manner of violence to do so and have gotten a pass from the current administration. Instead, Obama appointed former Head of La Raza Cecilia Munoz to 2 positions in his White House...that of Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and the position she currently maintains as...

If you believe the federal government is too large and powerful, you’re in what our current president calls “the cult of small government.” That’s what he said in a speech last week in Elkhart, Indiana, in which his aim was “to bust this myth of crazy, liberal government spending.” Say again? “I am not making this stuff up,” insisted Mr. Obama, who has increased America’s national debt by nearly $10 trillion – more than all his predecessors combined. A quick look at the National Debt Clock will scare the pants off anyone not put into a hypnotic trance by the...

The White House and lawmakers on Tuesday refrained from condemning a deadly Israeli attack on Gaza-bound ships carrying humanitarian aid. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs would not go much further than a United Nations Security Council resolution that condemned the loss of life without criticizing Israel’s actions. Gibbs echoed the resolution calling for the U.N. investigation of the incident to be “prompt, impartial, credible and transparent.” At least 10 civilians were killed in the attack, and many were wounded. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to visit President Barack Obama at the White House on Tuesday, but he...

INDIANAPOLIS – Individual health insurance costs are expected to climb across Indiana in 2017 as insurers continue to grapple with rising health care expenses and a market that was only recently overhauled by the federal Affordable Care Act. Many who purchase coverage through insurance exchanges created under the law are eligible for subsidies or tax credits to offset costs. But those who make too much money to qualify for federal help will have to pay the full price of coverage – an amount that could nearly double in some cases. That could spell a steep increase for a group of...

President Barack Obama doesn’t like using Donald Trump’s name, he admitted during a town hall in Elkhart, Indiana hosted by PBS. The president gave an entire speech earlier in the day, criticizing the Republican nominee without once using his name. During the town hall, it became clear that it was intentional after he referred to the New Yorker as “someone” who proposed building walls and deporting illegal immigrants.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway officially opened with balloon races June 5, 1909, followed by motorcycle races Aug. 14 and automobile races Aug. 19. ...