Frontier Communications Corporation will lay off 54 employees from its Carmel location in November.
The company filed notice with the state that the employees in Carmel‘s collection center will be let go on November 18.
Frontier cites recently completed automation collection systems as the reason for the layoffs.
Frontier employs just under 120 employees at its Carmel center.
IMPD says the investigation continues into the fatal shooting of Officer Rod Bradway.
IMPD Officer Kendale Adams says Bradway was ambushed by 24-year-old Steven Byrdo who was hiding behind the door of the apartment in the 6700 block of Eagle Pointe Drive. Bradway, who was responding to a domestic disturbance call, heard a woman screaming for help inside the apartment, forced his way inside and was shot by Byrdo.
Bradway returned fire and assisting officers who arrived at the scene also shot Byrdo. Officer Adams says it‘s not clear which officer fired the fatal shot.
Adams says Byrdo had been holding the woman and her infant daughter hostage in the hours before the shooting. He says the woman is cooperating with police and has since been reunited with her daughter.
A vigil was held Friday night at the headquarters of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 86. IMPD says Officer Bradway‘s viewing will be held Wednesday at Crown Hill Funeral Home from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m.. His funeral will be held the following day at Bankers Life Fieldhouse at 11 a.m. and the public is welcome to attend.
A grand jury has indicted the man who was arrested last month for shooting four people in Broad Ripple.
Tristan Crayton faces twelve felony charges including battery and criminal recklessness in the shooting on August 2nd. Crayton told police he shot three of the victims after they confronted him and his friends outside a nightclub in Broad Ripple.
The fourth victim was shot by a stray bullet. None of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening. Police said Crayton had a lifetime permit to carry a gun.
Prosecutors declined to file charges against Crayton and turned the case over to the grand jury.
With this indictment, the case will now go to Marion County Criminal Court.
More than ever NASCAR needed a good race Sunday at New Hampshire in the aftermath of the scandal that dominated headlines in the last two weeks.
The Sylvania 300 won’t go down as one of the sport’s most memorable afternoons but at least it was controversy-free for the most part.
The story from Chase race number two was clearly Matt Kenseth and Joe Gibbs Racing after another 1-2 finish by the 2003 champion and teammate Kyle Busch. After their performance last week at Chicagoland Speedway, JGR became the first team in Chase history to start the playoffs with back-to-back sweeps of the first two finishing positions.
But outside of the glorious day for the Gibbs bunch, Sunday’s race wasn’t exactly chock full of highlights. Side-by-side racing was mostly relegated to restarts and the field spent most of the afternoon strung out around the one-mile track.
Although Chase drivers dominated the first ten finishing spots, others not in the championship hunt enjoyed a decent afternoon including Jamie McMurray, who rallied back from an early race incident with soon to be ex-teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, and Jeff Burton.
It’s early to be sure but this Chase sure has the look of a three-driver race with the way Kenseth, Busch and Jimmie Johnson have started. Carl Edwards is already 36 behind in fourth place, which is nearly a race worth of points already to make up only a couple of events into the championship season.
Dover is next up, which happens to be one of Kenseth’s best tracks by the way. Hopefully the “Monster Mile” can add some spark to what’s so far been a tepid start (at least on the track) to Chase 2013.
State Sen. Brent Steele (R-Bedford), chair of the Indiana Senate Judiciary Committee, was honored Thursday as a Champion of Justice by the Indiana Judges Association for his work during the 2013 legislative session.
President of the Indiana Judges Association, Judge John R. Pera, said Steele brings “a pragmatic, thoughtful approach to all matters before his committee as they relate to Indiana’s judicial system,” and the association is proud to recognize him with this award.
“Our society relies on a justice system that’s fair, balanced and dependable,” Steele said. “Upholding these values has been an important part of both my job at the Statehouse and my private law practice. It is an honor to be recognized by the Judges Association, and I’m humbled by Indiana’s strong community of lawyers, judges and other court officials who defend our justice system every day.”
Steele advanced several bills this session to improve Indiana’s justice system, including:
· House Enrolled Act 1006: Updating Indiana’s felony code for the first time in more than 30 years, making sure our state’s criminal sentencing policies are fair and consistent for both victims and offenders.
· House Enrolled Act 1016: Promoting rehabilitation in the state’s justice system by expanding problem solving courts.
· House Enrolled Act 1053: Improving Indiana’s sex offender registry.
· House Enrolled Act 1108: Establishing sentencing alternatives for young offenders.
· House Enrolled Act 1482: Giving offenders a fresh start by allowing for expungement of certain crimes if offenders demonstrate their rehabilitation.
This summer and fall, Steele is serving as chair of the Commission on Courts, which is responsible for reviewing issues involving court administration at both the state and local levels, and working to make sure all Indiana courts have balanced caseloads.
The Indiana Judges Association also honored Sen. Luke Kenley (R-Noblesville), Rep. Greg Steuerwald (R-Avon) and Rep. Steven Braun (R-Zionsville) with the Champion of Justice award at their annual meeting in Fort Wayne today.
The Indiana Beef Evaluation Program will hold its 72nd Bull Sale and Springville Feeder Auction Association’s Heifer and Cow Sale.
The sale will be on Oct. 19 at 2 p.m. at the Springville Feeder Auction.
The auction facility is 10 miles northwest of Bedford on State Road 54-58.
Thirty-eight bulls are slated to be for sale, including angus, hereford, simmental and simangus. The sale will also be online at DVAuction.com.
For more information, call Springville Feeder Auction at 279-1282, call Jerry Rusch, 849-4525 or visit www.springvillefeederauction.org.
Proceeds go to Rely for Life with the sale of a LION PRIDE – BADGER SPIRIT t-shirt being sold to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
The Salem vs. West Washington Football Game on October 18 will be dedicated to Melissa Badger and all others who have battled cancer.
Supporters encourage fans to pack the stands and wear one of the shirts to show support and respect for all those who have battled cancer.
Orders are due Sept. 20. Shirts are $12 each and $15 for 2X and larger.
Forms are available at the Salem School office or with Mrs. Ponder at the Salem Middle School.
Call 812.883.3904 or 812.883.3808 if you’d like to order a shirt.
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The Indiana State Police will be joining forces with five other state police agencies in the Six State Trooper Project.
The Six State Trooper Project is a multi-state enforcement campaign designed to coordinate and combine patrol efforts focused on marijuana interdiction, eradication, and criminal patrol.
The Six State Trooper Project fosters partnerships between state police agencies while providing the public additional services in a high-visibility, criminal patrol and enforcement effort. The Indiana State Police will be participating in this effort statewide.
Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter commented, “The Indiana State Police welcome the opportunity to partner with neighboring state police and highway patrol agencies as part of our continued commitment to highway safety and criminal interdiction efforts.”
The four day, multi-state operation is scheduled for September 26-29 and the focus of the enforcement efforts will be on criminal patrol and highway interdiction targeting the movement of marijuana and other illegal substances throughout Indiana and the five other participating states.
Other agencies involved in this partnership include Michigan State Police, Ohio Highway Patrol, Kentucky State Police, Pennsylvania State Police, and West Virginia State Police.
This week at Kentucky Speedway, 23-year-old Aaron Grosskopf will have an experience that would be a mere dream to most race fans.
Grosskopf, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at age 1 but works today to help the disabled get behind a wheel and race, has been named the grand marshal for Friday’s ZLOOPTM 150 at Kentucky Speedway.
In the past year, Grosskopf has struck a friendship with ARCA rookie and ZLOOPTM Racing competitor Justin Boston, leading to Friday’s opportunity in Kentucky.
Raised in Morehead City, N.C., Grosskopf recently moved to the Charlotte area to begin in earnest his work as the founder of DisabledRacers.com. The site aims to build awareness for the needs of disabled people who wish to get involved in simulated racing, and to provide a place where those racers can communicate and work together to find resources for equipment.
“When somebody like me wants to start sim racing, they’re going to search for equipment and there’s no affordable, disabled-ready wheel out there,” said Grosskopf. “There’s not a whole lot of equipment with the hand controls where you can be competitive. When I started, there was no way I could do it and race all day.
“I’m trying to get companies to realize that they’re leaving disabled people out of sim racing. The way I think about it, there are people my age coming back from war, losing limbs, and they’re just as bored as I am. If not for video games, I’m not sure I’d be here right now. I’d go crazy.”
Indiana State Police are looking for a man on the run from Floyd County officers and who could be spending some time in Washington County.
Captain Roger Newlon of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, said the department received credible information that Ronald Graham was in the county Tuesday night. He said officers determined he had been at a location here, but had left.
Newlon said Graham had been spending time in the Pekin area and is wanted on a Washington County warrant for twice violating his probation.
On the third of this month, a trooper from the Indiana State Post at Sellersburg made a traffic stop on a black Jeep on Interstate 265 East at the 3.8 Mile Marker in Floyd County .
The traffic stop was for a false and fictitious license plate. The driver stopped the Jeep and immediately fled on foot into a wooded area along Interstate 265.
But, when the driver stopped the car, he did not put it in park and the trooper had to catch up with the rolling vehicle to put it in park.
By this time the male, now identified as Graham, 40, a white male, 5’5” tall, with brown hair and blue eyes had disappeared. His last known address was 222 West Market Street, New Albany, IN.
An arrest warrant for Ronald F. Graham was issued out of the Floyd County Superior Court for the charges of Possession of Methamphetamine, D Felony and Resisting/Fleeing Law Enforcement, A Misdemeanor. 
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After the trooper got the vehicle stopped he noticed a female, identified as Laura R. Faulkenburg, 26, from New Albany, IN, lying in the front passenger seat.
During a search of the Jeep Methamphetamine was located. The passenger, Laura Faulkenburg was arrested for Possession of Methamphetamine, Possession of a Schedule II Controlled Substance and Trafficking with an Inmate.
Anyone who knows the whereabouts or sees Ronald F. Graham should contact the
police immediately. All callers can remain anonymous.
Crime Stoppers is also offering a reward up to $1,000.00 for the capture of
Ronald F. Graham. You can contact Crime Stoppers at 502-582-CLUE, (2583).
