National Headlines with Kim Wells

@kwellscomm @PraiseIndy PraiseIndy.com Sports  —  It’s basketball madness for local colleges and the pros on this St. Patrick’s Day weekend.  Indiana University is turning the page in their men’s basketball program leaving coach Tom Crean in the last chapter. IU fired Crean on Thursday after nine seasons in Bloomington. They made this move on the same day that three […]

@kwellscomm @PraiseIndy PraiseIndy.com #NaptownNewsie News   —  The state has extended the emergency status for a Northwest Indiana public housing project where many of its residents have been lead poisoned through the soil upon which they lived. Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed an executive order on Friday afternoon to extend that disaster status for the East Chicago Superfund […]

@kwellscomm @PraiseIndy PraiseIndy.com Entertainment News  — Tinseltown’s most luxurious award night is fast approaching. The 89th Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday night. “La La Land” is the break-out leader with a record 14 nominations, including Best Picture. Other films vying for the coveted award are “Moonlight,” “Lion,” “Hidden Figures,” “Arrival,” “Hell or High Water,” “Manchester by […]

@kwellscomm  @PraiseIndy PraiseIndy.com News  — Good day to you. Hoosiers want to know what will happen to the Affordable Care Act and how repealing the law that governs their health insurance will impact them. Click the media player below to listen to my story about a new study showing the effect that repealing Obamacare could have on […]

@kwellscomm  PraiseIndy.com Health News  — The enrollment deadline for the Affordable Care Act, also known as ‘Obamacare’, is being extended to Monday. Officials with the federal healthcare exchange sent messages to members on Friday morning saying due to high demand on the previous day’s deadline, Thursday, December 15, they were giving people more time to […]

@kwellscomm PraiseIndy.com News & Sports Good day to you on this Columbus Day–better known by many as Indigenous Peoples Day. There will be no mail delivery today. The Indianapolis Urban League is asking citizens to “turn out for transit” at tonight’s Indianapolis City-County Council meeting. The IUL is encouraging everyone to pack the council chambers and show support for IndyGo. […]

@kwellscomm  PraiseIndy.com  News  — There are reports that at least three people are dead in a Hoboken, New Jersey transit train accident during Thursday morning’s rush that also left more than 100 others injured, many of them critically. Officials say the cause appears to have been accidental, although it’s very early in the investigation. About 250 people […]

@kwellscomm  PraiseIndy.com Sports — Another professional athlete is entering the frey defending San Francisco 49’ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protest of the National Anthem. He’s Baltimore Orioles star outfielder Adam Jones. Jones told USA Today the reason there hasn’t been a protest in baseball is because it’s “a white man’s sport.” Only eight-percent of major league players […]

@kwellscomm  “Access Indy with Kim Wells”  – The wife of the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali is launching a year-long service project to honor the champ’s 75th birthday and his life of inspired humanitarianism. Ali had a long relationship with ‘Naptown’ and was beloved and revered. Mrs. Lonnie Ali joins Kim Wells, to invite Hoosiers to […]

@kwellscomm PraiseIndy.com Political News In a bombshell, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange implies that a Democratic National Committee staffer, who was murdered last month, was the source of leaked DNC emails. In an interview on Dutch TV Tuesday, Assange told the interviewer that whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks. […]

@kwellscomm PraiseIndy.com’s #Olympic Proportions The New Jersey native who became the first U.S. athlete to wear a hijab during the Olympics, won’t be moving forward in the women’s sabre tournament. Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad was eliminated in her second bout on Monday, losing to French fencer Cecilia Berder 15 to 12. She told reporters after her individual […]

@kwellscomm PraiseIndy News Legendary boxer and human rights activist Muhammad Ali is dead at the age of 74. A family spokesman confirmed that Ali died at Phoenix-area hospital where was being treated for a respiratory issue that was complicated by the Parkinson’s he was diagnosed with in the 1980’s. The most recognizable sports figure of […]