Category Archives: WXKE Indiana News
Indiana aims for 90% broadband coverage in five years
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) - The clock is ticking on Indiana's goal to get high-speed internet to 90-percent of the people in the next five years. The governor signed a law that sets the goal back in ...
Joey Martin Aug 20, 2021
FDA links dog deaths, illnesses to Midwestern Pet Foods
(ADAMS) - The FDA believes over 300 dog deaths and illnesses may be linked to products made by Midwestern Pet Foods. The agency's warning letter Tuesday said it was aware of more than 130 pet deaths a...
Joey Martin Aug 20, 2021
Questions linger about shooting at Indiana manufacturing facility
FRANKFORT, Ind. (ADAMS) - No one is saying if the grandmother and granddaughter gunned down at a central Indiana manufacturing plant were targeted or just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Clinton...
Joey Martin Aug 19, 2021
Indiana high schoolers can compete in national poetry contest
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) - On Wednesday, the Indiana Arts Commission announced educators and students are invited to sign up to participate in the Poetry Out Loud program. Poetry Out Loud is a natio...
Joey Martin Aug 19, 2021
Traffic stop ends with felony drug charges
LOWELL, Ind. (ADAMS) - Indiana State Police say that nearly 30 grams of methamphetamine are off the street after a traffic stop on Tuesday. ISP officials say that it started when a trooper saw a vehic...
Joey Martin Aug 18, 2021
Governor Holcomb supports local mask mandates
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) - Indiana's governor is not going to issue a statewide mask mandate, but he supports local schools that are instituting local mask requirements. On Monday, Governor Holcomb ...
Joey Martin Aug 18, 2021
Indiana senator wants to end unemployment overpayment collections
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) - One Indiana lawmaker wants the state to stop trying to collect unemployment payments that people across the state should never have gotten. On Tuesday, State Senator Karen...
Joey Martin Aug 18, 2021
ISDH says contact tracing survey data was breached
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) On Tuesday, the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) said that it is notifying nearly 750,000 Hoosiers that data from the state's COVID-19 online contact tracing survey was i...
Joey Martin Aug 18, 2021
Indiana Census shows more diversity, population shift
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) - Indiana's new Census numbers show a continuing trend. People are moving away from the state's more rural counties, and fewer people are identifying as white. The Census Bu...
Joey Martin Aug 17, 2021
Infrastructure plan could mean no tolls for southern IN bridge
HENDERSON, Ky., (ADAMS) - The massive federal transportation package could spare drivers in southern Indiana from having to pay tolls on a new bridge across the Ohio River. On Monday, the judge-execut...
Joey Martin Aug 17, 2021