Carli Luca

Alexandria

News Director at KALB-TV (Alexandria, LA)

*News Director @KALBtv5 *Formerly at @WNDU, @newsnowwarsawIN, & @KLINradio *Loves all things Halloween 🎃

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Articles

“Quest for justice”: Family calls for barn arson to be prosecuted

Nov 2, 2023 | wndu.com | Carli Luca

St. Joseph County, Ind. (WNDU) - There were at least a dozen barns burned down across Michiana from April to September of 2021, but only one of those arsons happened here in St. Joseph County. Over two years after their barn was burned to the ground, one family is still asking why charges have still not been filed in their case. For Debbie Schmidt, it’s a “quest for justice”. The barn where her family made decades of memories was leveled by a fire on May 3, 2021.
Convicted barn arsonist gets additional 30 years for role in Kosciusko County barn fires

Nov 2, 2023 | wndu.com | Carli Luca

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - A man who is already serving a lengthy prison sentence for setting eight barns on fire in Elkhart County in 2021 is getting more prison time for his role in three other barn fires that same year in Kosciusko County. As part of a plea agreement, Joseph Hershberger pleaded guilty to three counts of arson and was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for each count.
Autopsies released for 3 patients found dead at Landmark Recovery facility

Oct 24, 2023 | wndu.com | Carli Luca

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WNDU) - 16 News Now Investigates is learning what caused three patients at a former rehab center in Mishawaka to die within a one-week timespan earlier this year. The patient deaths were reported at the Landmark Recovery center on Bodnar Boulevard between July 3 and July 9. Autopsies have been completed on those patients, and 16 News Now Investigates has obtained those results through a public records request.
Berrien Springs man reunited with class ring decades after it went missing

Sep 27, 2023 | wndu.com | Carli Luca

BERRIEN SPRINGS, Mich. (WNDU) - A class ring is back home with its owner in Berrien Springs after being lost for more than two decades. Despite belonging to Berrien Springs alum John Leath, the ring was found by a woman hundreds of miles away. Leath had asked his aunt to hang onto the ring for him during some tough times. Though she put it in her jewelry box, it came up missing after she developed some health issues. Leath says that was 25 years ago.
Landmark Recovery ordered to turn over surveillance footage to coroner

Aug 28, 2023 | wndu.com | Carli Luca
TREES, Inc. Founder Meghan Buell dies

Aug 9, 2023 | wndu.com | Carli Luca

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - A local leader for the LGBTQ community has died. Meghan Buell was the founder and president of TREES, Inc., a South Bend-based resource center for the LGBTQ+ community. Meghan was a lifelong resident of Indiana. She was a leader in the transgender community locally, regionally and nationally. She served on nonprofit boards, transgender advisory committees, and was a regular collegiate guest lecturer, according to TREES, Inc. Meghan began TREES, Inc. in 2015.
GRAPHIC: Elkhart mother arrested on suspicion of murdering her baby

Jul 21, 2023 | wndu.com | Carli Luca

ELKHART, Ind. (WNDU) - A 24-year-old Elkhart woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her 6-month-old daughter earlier this month. **GRAPHIC WARNING: Some details in this story are deeply disturbing**First responders were called just after 7:45 p.m. on July 7 to an apartment in the 300 block of Middlebury Street. There, they found the 6-month-old baby unconscious and not breathing. The baby was taken to the hospital, where she died the following day.
Several Michiana animal shelters offering discounted adoptions in July

Jun 28, 2023 | wndu.com | Carli Luca
Panhandlers using fake funeral fundraiser to collect money on South Bend streets

Jun 27, 2023 | wndu.com | Carli Luca
Free HIV testing available Tuesday at several Walgreens locations in Michiana

Jun 27, 2023 | wndu.com | Carli Luca