Claudia Chisholm was representing the luggage company she inherited from her father at a 2008 hunting and outdoors trade show when the business took a turn she never saw coming. Customers kept strolling in, looking at the high-end briefcases and leather goods, including wallets and bags ‘with embroidered critters’ she’d expected to be a surefire…
Good Friday, a religious day of observance for Catholics and Christians, is not a federal holiday but some business operations are closed for the day. Good Friday comes ahead of Easter celebrations and is one of five Christian celebrations that commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. Although it’s observed by…
A suspect has been identified in an Indiana murder that occurred more than half a century ago, officials said. Phyllis Bailer, 26, was traveling from Indianapolis to Bluffton, Indiana on the evening of Friday, July 7, 1972, the Indiana State Police said in a news release. Bailer had her three-year-old daughter in the car. They…
February is recognized as American Heart Month, a health observance that encourages Americans to focus on their cardiovascular health and understand the importance of adopting healthier behaviors that can decrease the risk of serious health outcomes, such as a heart attack or stroke. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), heart disease…
A sleepy Selection Sunday this was not. North Carolina barely slid into this year’s version of March Madness, a development that led its athletic director to remind everyone that he had nothing to do with that choice even though he’s the head of the group that sets the bracket. Texas also made it in —…
Indiana Comic Con 2024 kicks off at convention canter in downtown Indy Indiana Comic Con 2024 Downtown Indianapolis will be awash Friday with costumed superheroes, anime characters and a Ghostbuster or two during the return of Indiana Comic Con, which so happens to coincide with the city’s Saint Patrick’s Day parade happening that same afternoon….
Missing Indiana woman found alive nearly a week after crashing car Missing Indiana woman found alive nearly a week after crashing car 01:02 A missing woman was found and rescued Tuesday after surviving six days in her crashed car in Newton County, Indiana. Brieonna Cassell, 41, of Wheatfield, was reported missing six days ago, according…
The US Secret Service shot an armed man outside the White House early on Sunday after a confrontation, and the man is now in an area hospital, it said in a statement. US President Donald Trump was not in the White House at the time as he is spending the weekend at his Florida home….
2024 to be world’s hottest year on record, per EU scientists 2024 is “virtually certain” to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began, according European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. An unseasonably warm week across Central Indiana could close out with thunderstorms. Daily high temperatures will gradually climb throughout the week to the…
An Indiana man has been sentenced to 105 years in prison for the 2022 fatal shooting of a Dutch soldier and wounding of two others in downtown Indianapolis. A Marion County judge on Monday ordered Shamar Duncan to serve 60 years for murder, 35 years for attempted murder and 10 years for aggravated battery. The sentences are…