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wishtv.com | Michaela Springer
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Ball State University announced it has officially ended or revised all DEI programs following President Trump’s executive order banning “illegal discrimination.” In a message sent to staff, Ball State Pres. Geoffrey Mearns said the university’s board of trustees Thursday morning approved a “resolution that revises or sunsets policies relevant” to Pres. Trump’s order.
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6 days ago | 
wishtv.com | Michaela Springer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Approximately 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were released Friday, continuing the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump. Kennedy was fatally shot on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after giving his victory speech for winning California’s Democratic presidential primary. His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving life in prison.
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6 days ago | 
wishtv.com | Michaela Springer
(CNN) — The Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for two key federal programs that help millions of low-income Americans educate their young children and heat their homes.
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6 days ago | 
wishtv.com | Michaela Springer
HAVANA (AP) — For Sonia Pérez, stepping into Havana’s Doña Alicia restaurant felt like entering a movie. Even as Cuba struggles with power outages and technological scarcity, this eatery has leaped into the 21st century with digital menus, Alexa-enabled assistance, touchless bathrooms and even a food-delivering robot. “I thought I was in a cartoon movie!” said the 64-year-old government employee, marvelling at the contrast with the technological realities outside.
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6 days ago | 
wishtv.com | Michaela Springer
(CNN) — Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed something odd — a series of deep earthquakes that had occurred under the Sierra Nevada at a depth where Earth’s crust would typically be too hot and high pressure for seismic activity. “In Northern California usually the (earthquake) data goes down to about 10 kilometers (6 miles).
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6 days ago | 
wishtv.com | Michaela Springer
(MIRROR INDY) — Last week, EmployIndy initiated a layoff of 14 employees, which is 20% of the nonprofit’s total staff. The move is, in part, a response to the end of pandemic-era funding, including nearly $14 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds, as well as some other grants from other funders. The nonprofit will scale back, but not eliminate, certain programs. Much of that money EmployIndy is losing was to help Indianapolis residents recover from COVID-19, per president and CEO .
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1 week ago | 
wishtv.com | Michaela Springer
HUNTINGBURG, Ind. (WISH) — Police in Huntingburg have released further information about a woman and girl killed in a suspected dog attack. News 8 previously reported officers with the Huntingburg Police Department on Monday were dispatched to a house on Geiger Street after a person covered in blood was found inside. In an update made Wednesday, police say when they arrived, they found two people unresponsive inside the home. They were identified as Oliva Regalado, 53, and Evelynn Lopez, 4.
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1 week ago | 
wishtv.com | Michaela Springer
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A person was critically injured in a shooting on Indianapolis’ southwest side Thursday. Online police reports show Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were called to the intersection of Morris and Hiatt streets around 1:30 p.m. on a report of a person shot. That’s in a residential area between Belmont Avenue and South Harding Street. Officers arrived and located a person suffering a gunshot wound. They were rushed to a hospital in critical condition.
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1 week ago | 
wishtv.com | Michaela Springer
(CNN) — A suspect is in custody following a reported shooting at Florida State University on Thursday, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the situation. Preliminary reports indicate there may be injuries involved, though the extent of those injuries in unclear, according to the sources. “An active shooter has been reported in the area of Student Union,” the university said in a post on X. “Police are on scene or on the way.
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1 week ago | 
wishtv.com | Ray Steele |Michaela Springer
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Gov. Mike Braun on Tuesday signed into law a ban on transgender women competing on college sports teams in Indiana. What was HB 1041 is an extension of the state’s similar law covering kindergarten through high school. The ban is essentially already in effect for colleges. An executive order from President Trump and a change in policy by the NCAA limit women’s sports to athletes assigned female at birth. This story was created using a script that aired on WISH-TV.
