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  • Heat and Pacers set to square off in Miami

    NBA's Eastern Conference final tonight with Game 1 in Miami. This is a series featuring two contrasting teams. The Heat, the defending league champions, are a battle-tested squad very familiar with the pressure of late-season playoffs. For the Pacers, these are pretty much untested waters as only one member of the team has ever been in a conference final. Backup big man Ian Mahinmi got all ...

  • IRS workers collected jobless benefits

    INDIANAPOLIS - Two Indianapolis IRS workers have pleaded guilty to collecting jobless benefits while working full-time. Carmen Brown, 41, of Indianapolis, and Terri Wardell, 48, of Fishers, both pleaded guilty this week to unemployment insurance fraud. Both were working full-time for the IRS when they collected $14,000 and $18,000, respectively, in unemployment benefits. The investigation by the ...

  • Fever hopes for 2nd sraight overall win

    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Tamika Catchings grew accustomed to hearing the annual question. Can you win a championship? The ring was the only thing missing from a sterling resume that included three gold medals, five defensive MVPs, seven All-Star appearances and the league's 2011 MVP Award. So when she walked into Bankers Life Fieldhouse last week, Catchings was all smiles. Winning a championship ...

  • IMPD arrests woman for prostitution

    INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department arrested a woman they are calling a $600 call girl. Veronica Leblanc was arrested for prostitution. Police seized more than $300,000 in assets from her and her alleged partner. Check back at WISHTV.com for ...

  • Pence pledges to finish I-69

    INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Gov. Mike Pence says that the completion of Interstate 69 from Evansville to Indianapolis is his top priority when it comes to road building. Pence spoke to an audience Wednesday morning that included contractors and others eager to take part in the project. The state is currently seeking private partners to help upgrade the 21-mile stretch of State Road 37 between ...


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Movie Review

Halloween (2007)

Halloween (2007)

In yet another needless retread of a classic '70s American horror movie, rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie's prequel-cum-remake of John Carpenter's Halloween does its best to distort everything that worked in the original in its bid for improvement. Where Carpenter's ... ...

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  • DMD suspends Land Bank activities

    INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development has postponed all Land Bank transfers following an FBI investigation that resulted in the arrest of two city officials and charges against three others. Officials say on Wednesday, staff was reviewing the status of all projects and ...

  • Indianapolis Motor Speedway apologizes for shutting down lemonade

    The Indianapolis Motor Speedway apologized for shutting down a 10-year-old girl's lemonade stand during the city's Lemonade Day. Morgen Morris, whose stand Saturday was sponsored by WIBC-FM, Indianapolis, said she was hoping to raise enough money to buy a Kindle Fire, donate to the American Heart Association in honor of her late uncle and start a college fund by selling lemonade for ...

  • Graduation request for Taylor Swift

    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Matthew Gaines has cerebral palsy, but that has not stopped him from graduating next week, and it's not stopping him from making a very special request. The California boy is a huge Taylor Swift fan. "I was talking to him about graduation and asked him what he would want more than anything, and he said 'I'd love Taylor Swift to walk me down the aisle for ...

  • Girl dies from pain patch overdose

    INDIANAPOLIS - A 12-year-old girl in Missouri died of a Fentanyl overdose after she unknowingly put a used painkiller patch on her leg. Destiny Spitlerfound a used pain patch in the trash that her grandmother had used to manage her back pain. Spitler put the patch on her leg like a sticker. She went to bed and never woke up. "It's primarily a respiratory depressant. It knocks them out. ...

  • Thunderstorms forecast this afternoon

    Thunderstorms in forecast Northwest Ohio is likely to get the worst of it as thunderstorms rumble into the region tonight and Wednesday, the National Weather Service said ...

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