Morning News with Kim Wells

@kwellscomm @PraiseIndy  PraiseIndy.com News  — Indianapolis Metro Police are asking for your help to find a 14-year-old with diminished mental capacity who ran away from home. Missing Persons detectives are searching for Lamariona Larkin (click her name to see her photo), who left home in the 7200 block of Kingsford Drive just before 8:30 p.m. Sunday night. Police talked […]

@kwellscomm  PraiseIndy.com News  — A memorial will be held today with funeral services on Wednesday for four sisters who were killed in a fire in their home last week in Flora Indiana. According to The Lafayette Journal and Courier newspaper, the community will gather at a memorial from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today at the […]

@kwellscomm  PraiseIndy.com Local News — Strawberries are in today’s Central Indiana Health Alert. Anyone who’s consumed strawberries at any restaurant in Marion, Hamilton or Hendricks County over the past two weeks should be on the lookout for signs of Hepatitis A. The Indiana State Department of Health says frozen strawberries linked to an outbreak of […]

@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  — Java lovers are celebrating “National Coffee Day” on this ‘Throw Back (a cup) Thursday’ with plenty of great deals here in Indy as well as across the country. For example: McDonald’s is pouring free cups of coffee all day. Dunkin’ Donuts is serving up medium coffee for just 66-cents. Starbucks customers […]

@kwellscomm PraiseIndy.com Sports —  Take a listen to the latest with the Indiana Fever, the Colts and the NFL’s challenges while honoring 9/11 victims and protesting racial injustice at the hands of police at the same time. WTLC’s Kim Wells has all the scoop in the media player below. # (@PraiseIndy) # *Late-boxing legend Muhammad […]

@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.com News & Sports Cloudy, foggy and rainy on this Independence Day morning. There’s a real chance of heavy rain this afternoon that may clear by fireworks time. Know that a number of local fireworks shows –some of the smaller ones in some of the outlying areas are being delayed until the weekend (check with […]

@kwellscomm PraiseIndy.com News & Sports Happy Friday to you as we head into this three-day holiday weekend… Millions of Americans are expected to fill up on the cheapest gas in more than a decade and hit the road in record numbers this Fourth of July weekend. AAA says nearly 43 million people will travel over […]

@kwellscomm PraiseIndy.com News & Sports The fallout from a former Indianapolis Public Schools counselor, accused of having sex with students continues on this Tuesday. WRTV-TV reports that two IPS school officials have resigned in connection to the proper legal reporting of the alleged child seduction activities of Shana Taylor.  Both, Lela Hester and Shalon Dabney have resigned, […]

@kwellscomm PraiseIndy.com News & Sports Breaking!  A judge says Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson is not guilty of all charges in the death of Freddie Gray.  Goodson was driving the police van in which Gray suffered a fatal spinal cord injury in April of 2015. Goodson could have faced 30 years in prison if convicted […]