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INDIANAPOLIS -- An employee shot a man who apparently was trying to rob a Kroger store on Indianapolis' northwest side Monday evening, police said. The shooting happened just after 6 p.m. Monday at the store in the 5000 block of West 71st Street.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis police are looking for a man dressed as a woman in connection to a robbery on the city’s north side. Investigators said the robbery happened on Thursday in the 900 block of Lake Nora Drive North when a man answered an ad about massages...

<p>INDIANAPOLIS -- A Saudi Arabian passenger who tried to get into the cockpit of an American Airlines flight from New York to Indianapolis didn't appear on any terror-related watch lists, authorities said.</p> <p>Indianapolis airport police said another passenger grabbed the 20-year-old man's arm and directed him back to his seat on the flight before 10 p.m. Wednesday.</p>

INDIANAPOLIS - A stage has collapsed at a concert at the Indiana State Fair. The stage was set up for the Sugarland concert at the state fairgrounds. Rigging for the stage lighting reportedly fell around 8:50 p.m., before the main act took the stage. Police and fire crews believe they have everyone moved from the grandstand. A triage unit has been set up near the Hoosier Lottery exhibit at the fair. Other victims are also being transported to at least two area hospitals. Several ambulances can be seen entering and leaving the area. Fair and emergency officials are planning a...

Stage rigging collapsed after a storm gust Saturday night, trapping and injuring at least a dozen people at a concert at the Indiana State Fair, NBC station WTHR reported. The outdoor stage was set up for the Sugarland concert at the state fairgrounds. Medics and rescue crews throughout Indianapolis were converging on the State Fairgrounds after Hoosier Lottery Grandstand stage rigging fell. Dave Lindquist, music journalist for The Indianapolis Star, reported on Twitter, "Tragedy at fair concert. Entire stage collapses on track." He also wrote that "perhaps a dozen injured people have been removed from track on stretcher-type boards."

. The Brickyard 400 Sunday 1:00 pm Eastern Speed Pre-race at 10:00, ESPN Pre-race 12:00pm Green flag 1:19 from Indianapolis Motor Speedway Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return. ============

A mother-of-two has been arrested after allegedly leaving her children in a baking hot car and then attacking a woman who tried to help them. Heather Elliot told police she saw two boys, aged four and one, left unattended inside a car with the windows shut in the car park of a Kroger store in West Southport Road, Indianapolis. But when she approached the boys' mother Heather Query, she claimed the 21-year-old began shouting at her and then punched her in the face.

Planned Parenthood May Have Helped Sex Traffickers in Indiana Indianapolis, IN -- With the arrest of people involved in a sex trafficking ring in central Indiana, a state pro-life group wants to know if the Planned Parenthood abortion business offered the operators abortions or other services? http://www.lifenews.com/2008/12/10/state-3699/

Obama in Indianapolis Friday to talk about hybrid buses, reducing oil imports by Eric Loveday (RSS feed) on May 4th 2011 at 7:53AM President Obama will visit Indianapolis, IN on Friday, rescheduling a trip to Allison Transmission, a global provider of commercial-duty automatic transmissions and hybrid-propulsion systems, that was delayed due to budget negotiations. The White House says that the President will tour Allison's facilities before speaking to workers about the importance of slashing oil imports, while also addressing the immediate need for a cleaner and more secure energy future.

Let us take a trip in to the way-back machine, through the fires of the Mainstream Media Memory Hole. On this very date in 2008, when gas prices were 10% LOWER than they are today, Obama visited Indianapolis, and gave a speech PROMISING to lower gas prices, if Elected, and blaming Bush and Cheney for Americans paying $3.55 a gallon, the price on the sign behind him, for it. Gas prices are running 10% HIGHER now, than they were in 2008. WHICH OBAMA LIE ARE WE TO BELIEVE? The one in which he said “Under my plan energy prices must...

The Daily Caller White House Gas Pains By Neil Munro - The Daily Caller 1:06 AM 04/05/2011 White House officials are scheduling two more out-of-town trips this week to showcase the President’s energy strategy, possibly marking an uptick in concern about the political impact of rising gas prices. The Wednesday trip to Philadelphia and the Friday trip to Indianapolis will allow President Obama to continue “speaking directly with Americans about his long-term plan to protect consumers against rising oil prices and decrease oil imports,” said press secretary Jay Carney.

Drug Travels From Africa To Indianapolis In 48 Hours. Most residents of Indianapolis, including many in the law enforcement community, have never heard of the drug called khat...over the past three years, hundreds of pounds of the drug have been sold on the streets of Indianapolis, mostly to people of African descent... Khat is a plant that grows plentifully in east Africa, specifically in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. Users chew the leaves of the plant to release a compound called cathinone, which is considered a "schedule 1" amphetamine and hallucinogen under U.S. law... traffickers used cell phones and sophisticated code...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A state worker told police she was assaulted by three men during Thursday's union rally that brought thousands of people to the steps of the Statehouse.

First exploded a car at the busy shopping street Drottninggatan in central Stockholm. Then came another explosion some distance away and one man died. According to news agency TT, the man had blown himself to death. There was a bag on the ground filled with nails, according to newspaper Expressen. Alarm calls poured in to the Emergency Services from concerned residents about the explosions in central Stockholm on Saturday afternoon. But the initial info from the police was extremely unclear. First there was talk of two cars that exploded, later it proved to be just one... At Bryggargatan a man...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Some are questioning why retired Wayne Township Schools Superintendent Terry Thompson is taking with him a payout of more than $500,000. According to a copy of Thompson's contract, he was paid a severance of more than $283,902 -- the same amount as his 2010-11 salary -- when he retired in December after 15 years with the district, 6News' Kara Kenney reported...

Here in Indiana, near Grissom ARB, we just felt what we think was an earthquake. Can anyone confirm?

A 46-year-old Indiana grandmother is under investigation for her possible ties to suspected and convicted international terrorists, FoxNews.com has learned. Muslim-convert Kathie Smith, 46, a U.S. citizen living in Indianapolis who has blogged about her granddaughter, last year married a suspected German jihadist, and has been flying back and forth between the U.S. and Germany as recently as two weeks ago. A pro-jihadist video featuring Smith and her husband – alongside photos of members of the Islamic Jihad Union charged with plotting failed terror attacks against U.S. targets in Germany -- is being investigated by the Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center....

An Indiana grandmother who married a suspected German jihadist and converted to the Muslim religion is under investigation for possible ties to terrorists, according to FoxNews.com . Kathie Smith, 46, is a U.S. citizen and lives in Indianapolis.

-SNIP- ...Investigators believe Field's husband became upset during a heated argument and violently attacked her. He left the house, but lost control of his vehicle on slippery pavement about four blocks away and crashed head-on into a tree in the 4600 block of Carson. -END SNIP-

This crime occurred in 1965, but reading this is horrifying. Truly appalling and outrageous. The sick part is, the mother, Gertrude Baniszewski was the one who instigated the whole thing. She was very insecure, extremely religious (no offense to anyone who is religious here), and a raging psychopath. Thankfully, she is dead and rotting away in Hell. Some of the other torturers involved are dead too, including Richard Hobbs, who did most of the dirty work. Her crime would make Hitler or Stalin proud. TruTV-Gertrude Baniszewski

INDIANAPOLIS -- A heated exchange between party leaders outside an Indianapolis polling place caught the attention of police and onlookers Saturday. According to a police report, Marion County Democratic Party Chairman Ed Treacy, 69, and Republican ward chairman for Warren Township Ernest Shearer, 56, got into a scuffle outside an early voting site at Criminal Court 13 at 9049 E. 10th St.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis police said Friday morning that a 15-year-old boy from Afghanistan who has been missing since Thursday night was homesick and likely ran away. Authorities have been in contact with the U.S. State Department as the search for Mohammed Karim Azizi, 15, continues. Azizi, an exchange student who was staying with a host family in Forest, Ohio, was with a group of FFA students from his exchange school, Riverdale High School, visiting Indianapolis for the National FFA Convention. Indianapolis police Lt. Jeff Duhamell said Azizi has been in the U.S. for two months and comes from a large...

I've heard a lot of discrimination cases, but this one takes the cake! Last week in Indianapolis, a couple came under fire for turning away a special bakery order for "National Coming Out Day" at Indiana University (IU). The Just Cookies owners, David and Lily Stockton, politely explained to the caller that they didn't feel comfortable making rainbow-colored treats for a group that endorses homosexuality. As a father, David said he wanted to set the right example for his two daughters and stand by his moral beliefs. Of course, as his wife explained, anyone is welcome to come to...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A cookie shop at Indianapolis' City Market is being investigated after a university said the business refused to fill an order for a National Coming Out Day celebration. Heather Browning, a coordinator for social justice education in the Office of Student Involvement at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis, was organizing the Oct. 7 event, aimed at encouraging coming out and discussion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. She told 6News' Joanna Massee that she called Just Cookies to inquire about getting rainbow cookies made for the event. "When I explained it to him the nature of the celebration,...

An Indianapolis cookie shop could be evicted from its longtime location for refusing a special order from a college homosexual group. The bakery "Just Cookies" has operated in a city-owned market for over 20 years. The president of the board that oversees the market told the Indianapolis Star that he would "hate to lose them" as a tenant -- but that could very well happen because owner David Stockton took a moral stand and did not want to endorse homosexual activity. Controversy arose this week after the owners of the bakery cited moral objections to a special-order request for rainbow-decorated...

Officials in Indianapolis are turning up the heat on a bakery that refused to take an order from a student group seeking rainbow-colored cupcakes for next month's National Coming Out Day. A spokesman for Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard said city officials are conducting an inquiry into the bakery, Just Cookies, which declined to take the order last week from a diversity group at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), which ordered the cupcakes for Oct. 11. "The city's position is, it's the city's market, it's a public place," mayoral spokesman Robert Vane told FoxNews.com. "There is no litmus test for buying...

Officials in Indianapolis are turning up the heat on a bakery that refused to take an order from a student group seeking rainbow-colored cupcakes for next month's National Coming Out Day. A spokesman for Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard said city officials are conducting an inquiry into the bakery, Just Cookies, which declined to take the order last week from a diversity group at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), which ordered the cupcakes for Oct. 11. "The city's position is, it's the city's market, it's a public place," mayoral spokesman Robert Vane told FoxNews.com. "There is no litmus test for buying...

This is an update and prayer request with regard to a thread posted yesterday. An Indianapolis business, "Just Cookies" is being harassed and threatened to have their lease terminated from the Indianapolis City Market because of complaints from a homosexual group. The group says "Just Cookies" denied them service due to homosexual animus. The real story is that the gay group asked the business to provide them with a special order of cup cakes decorated with rainbow icing for an event promoting homosexuality. The business refused because they don't sell cup cakes. They just sell cookies, thus the name of...

An Indianapolis bakery is under fire from the gay and lesbian community over a choice not to serve a diversity group. A campus organization said it was denied service in what's become a flashpoint in the fight for equal rights. This is what they were after: a mulitcolored cupcake to celebrate "National Coming Out Day" next month; a rainbow confection to honor the diversity on the campus of IUPUI. But the student who had the order placed at Just Cookies was told no. "We're right on the cusp of being equal with anyone else, I don't know why they would...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A woman charged in the deaths of two of her children allegedly locked them and three siblings inside a small closet and left to visit a friend, returning about 10 hours later to find the boy and girl dead inside.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A man and a woman were detained after several people were stabbed during a dispute on Indianapolis' southwest side late Thursday night. The incident happened at about 10:20 p.m. in the 1300 block of South Kappes Street, near Morris Street and Belmont Avenue. Five people were injured, and police said a dozen or more men were involved. The victims range in age from 17 to 20, and all of them suffered wounds to their backs...

NOTE The following text is a quote: Chinese National Charged with Economic Espionage Involving Theft of Trade Secrets from Leading Agricultural Company Based in Indianapolis WASHINGTON—Kexue Huang, aka John, 45, has been arrested and charged in a 17-count indictment with economic espionage intended to benefit a foreign government and instrumentalities, and interstate and foreign transportation of stolen property, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. Morrison for the Southern District of Indiana. Huang was arrested on July 13, 2010, in Westborough, Massachusetts by FBI agents, and today made his initial appearance...

The Brickyard is the destination and kissing the bricks the goal.. See ya there! Now,, Crank It Up!!

Its Open Wheel Time

Huntington County Clerk Felts, must be feeling some pretty heavy heat over her decision to change a date and time stamp on candidacy papers that were filed in February. The story of the change, reported here earlier this week, has formed more questions that County Clerk Felts needs to answer. Two updates have come to light on this story.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The bomb squad was called to a downtown police substation Tuesday night after a man carrying anti-American materials left a bag by the building, police said. Sgt. Paul Thompson said the 47-year-old man put a backpack by the downtown roll call center at 25 W. 9th St. just after 8 p.m., telling officers that he was praying, and that he didn't like America. When officers searched the man, they found bomb-making pamphlets and anti-American materials, Thompson said...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A Fort Wayne man is facing charges of voyeurism and child exploitation after he used an elaborate camera system to spy up skirts at an Indianapolis mall, police said. David Delagrange, 40, was spotted at Castleton Mall Saturday night getting very close to women and girls wearing dresses and sliding his right foot under their skirts, said Sgt. Matthew Mount...

GREENWOOD, Indiana (WISH) - A Greenwood man is in jail tonight after police said he put dozens of women in extreme danger. Greenwood Police said 46 year-old Tony Perkins is a walking time bomb. Investigators say he may have knowingly infected about a 100 women with AIDS...

President George W. Bush to Headline Pregnancy Center Fundraiser Indianapolis, IN -- Former President George W. Bush will headline a fundraising banquet for an Indianapolis crisis pregnancy center -- adding to the pro-life record he compiled during eight years in the White House. Bush will speak at the 27th annual Life Centers Celebration of Life fundraiser in Indianapolis. http://www.LifeNews.com/state4749.html

It was Charles Dickens who once wrote “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” It’s almost as though Mr. Dickens had privy to a time machine and was in attendance to witness the same pain and agony that Texan’s fans saw first hand on Sunday after noon at Reliant Stadium.

The Indiana Secretary of State has a limited term. The current holder of that office, Todd Rokita, is nearing his limit in that position. Jockeying for the position....

Tanker explodes on I-465 ramp Indianapolis - A semi tanker has exploded on the southbound ramp from I-69 to I-465. The fire from the vehicle is creating dark plumes of black smoke which can be seen for miles. A second alarm has been requested to the scene. Views from a tower cam show that the billboards are also on fire. The accident is causing large back-ups on I-465. The crash is before the Allisonville Road exit. Injuries are being reported. Witnesses reported hearing loud noises. Witness Danielle Smith was on 465 headed to Keystone at the Crossing. In her rear-view...

Michael Kuryla Jr. found strength from his fellow stranded Navy comrades floating in shark-infested waters of the South Pacific for nearly five days in 1945 during World War II. Their ship, the USS Indianapolis, sank in just 12 minutes after being hit by two Japanese torpedoes shortly after the ship had delivered the atomic bomb that would level Hiroshima. Three hundred of Mr. Kuryla's shipmates died that day when the ship went down. Nine hundred were left floating in only life preservers, facing a harsh sun and sharks, as three SOS calls went unanswered. An anti-submarine plane spotted them four...

Mark Martin has the most Cup wins in 2009, yet he's on the verge of missing the Chase. What's up with that? After a week off, it's time to crank it up at The Brickyard.

Has it been a year already? Saddle 'em up and let's get ready to roll 'em out.

INDIANAPOLIS | Health officials closed two Indianapolis elementary schools for a week Friday after one student at each school became ill with the swine flu virus, raising the number of confirmed cases in Indiana to three. Officials said the two youngsters are being kept at home until deemed to be non-contagious and are in "very good" condition. They said the children's illness is no worse than flu cases seen during a typical influenza season. The third confirmed case in Indiana, announced earlier in the week, was a Notre Dame student who has fully recovered. State Health Commissioner Judy Monroe...

This was strictly an Indiana protest against taxes held in the north end of the rotunda at the Indiana statehouse. This was an excellent warmup to the nation wide April 15 teaparty. Some of the topics discussed were “Increasing Debt: Mortgaging Our Children’s Future,” “The Colts, Pacers and the Capital Improvement Board,” “Run over by the Speedway Redevelopment Commission,” “Lobbying and Ethics Reform,” “Transparency and Accountability in Government,” “Pay to Play Politics, Indiana Style,” and “Fun and Games in Evansville.” The protest started at 1130 and lasted for about an hour and a half. It was civil in the Hoosier...

INDIANAPOLIS -- An 18-year-old man is being held without bond Monday in connection with the apparent beating death of his girlfriend's toddler. Tayuan Chism went before a Marion County judge for an initial hearing in the case, but the judge granted a request for a 72-hour hold while prosecutors determine what charges they want to file, 6News' Julie Pursley reported. Chism had nothing to say to reporters as he walked into court Monday. Police said he beat his girlfriend's 14-month-old daughter, Lilianna Goodmann, last Wednesday in their home in the 2100 block of Amherst Drive. The child died on Friday....

Marion County City-County Councilman Ed Coleman is switching parties from Republican to Libertarian. Coleman, who was first elected as an At-Large candidate in the Republican take over of the Council and Mayor’s office in 2007, has come under fire from the fellow Republican Councilmen and the County party for bucking party line on votes as well as voting against the Mayor on issues he deemed too intrusive for government…even local government. Coleman, who apparently has been mulling a switch for quite some time, was originally targeted by Democrats as a potential new party member, but conservative political convictions kept him...

POSTED: 5:51 pm EST December 24, 2008 INDIANAPOLIS -- Police said they were looking for a black Range Rover with two men inside. The men were described by police as black, one older and one younger. Police said they believed the shooter was about 5 feet 5 inches tall with a light-brown complexion and a goatee. Both men were said to be armed. Officers were canvassing the area Wednesday evening looking for the men. Anyone with information is asked to call police or Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.