INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana offers useful and informative resources to help parents find quality child care and early learning opportunities for their children. Good examples are ChildCareFinder.IN.Gov, which the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration launched in 2016 to help find and compare licensed and registered child cares in their areas, …

STATEHOUSE (Jan. 14, 2020) – Hendricks County lawmakers are encouraging Hoosier students interested in state government to participate in the Indiana House Page Program during the 2020 legislative session. According to State Rep. Bob Behning (R-Indianapolis), students ages 13 to 18 can spend a day at the Statehouse in Indianapolis …

Matthew Woolard PLAINFIELD- On Monday, January 6, 2020, at approximately 9:40 p.m., the Plainfield Police Department was tipped off by a citizen of a suspicious vehicle parked at a dead end of a parking lot in the Gladden Farms apartment complex. Upon arrival, the officer approached an SUV occupied by …

INDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 13, 2020) – Today, the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs along with the Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) announced that the Quick Impact Placebased Grant Program, is open for applications. This matching grant is designed to fund transformational projects that spark community-wide conversations and creativity. A new partnership …

Putnam County – January 12, 2020, at 5:30 p.m., Trooper Colton Maynor was patrolling Interstate 70 near the forty-three mile marker, when he stopped a 2004 Chevrolet for following too closely.  The driver was identified as Taylor M. Branson, age 27, of Greencastle, IN. Further investigation by Trooper Maynor revealed that …

HENDRICKS COUNTY, Ind. – The Indiana Department of Transportation announces the traffic signal at the I-74 eastbound exit ramp to Ronald Reagan Parkway (Exit 68) will be operational tomorrow, Tuesday, January 14. Crews will activate the signal around 9 a.m.  INDOT urges motorists to be attentive to the new traffic …

Indianapolis, IN – Two men are now under arrest after a traffic stop led troopers to find drugs in the car and a runaway juvenile, then led to the arrest of another man on child neglect charges.  January 11th, 2019, around 12:15 a.m. Trooper Matthew Helbrecht stopped a vehicle near 82nd Street …

Indianapolis, IN – Indiana State Police detectives spent the day Saturday investigating an early morning interstate shooting along I-70. Troopers were called to the area of I-70 and Keystone Avenue yesterday morning just after 4:00 a.m. for reports of a person shot. The victim of the shooting, who was driving along …

INDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 10, 2020) —The Indiana State Hemp Plan was formally submitted to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on December 26, 2019. Robert Waltz, Indiana State Chemist & Seed Commissioner, and Bruce Kettler, Indiana State Department of Agriculture Director, were the co-signers of the submitted plan. Below are …

INDIANAPOLIS (January 10, 2020) — A criminal attempting to own an auto dealership was apprehended in Indianapolis after he unknowingly agreed to meet with an investigator from Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson’s Auto Dealer Services Division. Timothy Luther had been on federal supervised release for months. In Indiana, it …