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Indianapolis Land Bank program suspended

Jack Rinehart — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:18:17 GMT

The redevelopment efforts in one of the city's most distressed neighborhoods are on hold following the indictments of two city employees.

Pedestrian struck by police car

TheIndyChannel.com Staff — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:12:54 GMT

Investigators are on the scene of a crash involving a police car and a pedestrian.

Woman avoids serious injury in crash

TheIndyChannel.com Staff — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:48:23 GMT

A woman escaped with only minor injuries after her car slid under a tractor-trailer on Interstate 70 and was dragged.

ISTEP company to face legislative action

Norman Cox — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:30:15 GMT

It's becoming even more apparent how upset state leaders are over the botched ISTEP testing this year.

PD: Man taped urinating, spitting on boy

Tanya Spencer — Thu, 23 May 2013 23:06:47 GMT

A Muncie man is accused of videotaping himself abusing his ex-girlfriend's 3-year-old son, hitting him, trying to choke the boy and urinating and spitting on him as he slept.

Rossman: Spierer parents harassing me

TheIndyChannel.com Staff — Thu, 23 May 2013 23:05:33 GMT

One of several people who had been with Indiana University student Lauren Spierer on the night she was last seen in 2011 told a newspaper that Spierer's parents have been harassing him.

Former hotel exec accused of theft

Stephen Dean — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:50:30 GMT

A hotel executive has been fired after the hotel's manager told police that he had been writing extra paychecks to himself.

Crime knocks out Internet, cable in Indy

Stephen Dean — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:02:08 GMT

Brazen thieves in search of power supply batteries have been causing neighborhoods across Indianapolis to temporarily lose Internet and cable television service.

Crash prompts calls for more inspections

Kara Kenney — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:20:26 GMT

A three-vehicle crash that left one woman injured is reigniting calls for more state inspections of commercial trucks.

Student killed, brother hurt in crash

TheIndyChannel.com Staff — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:21:41 GMT

A high school student was killed and his brother was injured Thursday morning when the driver crashed a pickup truck on a rural road.

PD: Bones found in vacant home not human

TheIndyChannel.com Staff — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:52:22 GMT

Bones found in a vacant home on Indianapolis' southeast side have been determined not to be human, authorities said.

Teens arrested in Franklin armed robbery

Julie Pursley — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:35:08 GMT

Police have arrested two teens suspected in an armed robbery at a Johnson County drugstore that prompted police to lockdown Franklin Community Schools on May 16.

Wyser appears in court in bribery probe

Rafael Sanchez — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:34:40 GMT

Former Marion County Deputy Prosecutor David Wyser appeared in federal court Thursday morning on bribery charges, but details of an impending plea deal and who he might testify against won't be released until July.

5-year-old hit by police car near school

TheIndyChannel.com Staff — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:14:53 GMT

A 5-year-old student was struck by an Indianapolis police cruiser outside a near-east side elementary school Thursday morning.

ISP: 10 people arrested in drug bust

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:07:02 GMT

Ten people were arrested in Bartholomew County Wednesday after police received an anonymous tip about suspicious activity at two Columbus homes, Indiana State Police said.�