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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Tyrese Haliburton’s dad, John Haliburton, will not attend Pacers games, both at home and on the road, for the “foreseeable future,” according to a report from ESPN’s Shams Charania.

Charania noted that the decision was made by the Pacers front office.

After the Pacers comeback victory against the Milwaukee Bucks to win the series on Tuesday night, John got into an altercation with Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo.

John waved a flag with Tyrese’s face on it in front of Antetokounmpo after the Pacers win.

“I’ve won a championship, they haven’t. Not trying to minimize their effort. Coming on the floor and showing me his son’s towel with his face, saying ‘this is what we do. this is what we f’n do’… I feel that’s very – very disrespectful,” Antetokounmpo said.

“I think it’s the emotions of the game, he just got excited there. I talked with him, eventually I’ll talk with Giannis. I don’t think my pops was right at all there,” Tyrese said.

The Pacers will face the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Game 1 is scheduled for Sunday in Cleveland.

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GREENWOOD, Ind. (WISH) — A road rage incident involving gunfire happened Thursday afternoon in northern Johnson County, the sheriff reports.

Just before 2:15 p.m. Thursday, the sheriff’s office and White River Fire Department responded to an area near Morgantown Road and County Line Road. That’s in a residential area just east of the I-69 interchange for County Line Road.

One person was taken to an Indianapolis hospital for a medical issue, while another person remained at the scene and was cooperating with law enforcement.

Sheriff Duane E. Burgess says more information will be shared when it is available.

Morgantown Road south from Indianapolis into Johnson County was closed for the investigation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he’s nominating his national security adviser Mike Waltz to serve as United Nations ambassador in a major shake-up of his national security team.

The president said Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve simultaneously as acting national security adviser while maintaining his position at the State Department.

Trump announced the moves shortly after news broke that Waltz was leaving the administration, just weeks after it was revealed that he had added a journalist to a Signal chat being used to discuss military plans.

“I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations. From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first,” Trump wrote on social media.

“In the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor, while continuing his strong leadership at the State Department. Together, we will continue to fight tirelessly to Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN.”

There is precedent for the secretary of state to serve simultaneously as national security adviser. Henry Kissinger held both positions from 1973 to 1975.

Waltz came under searing scrutiny in March after revelations that he added journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a private text chain on the encrypted messaging app Signal, which was used to discuss planning for a sensitive March 15 military operation against Houthi militants in Yemen.

Trump’s decision to move Waltz to the U.N. comes weeks after he pulled his pick for the job, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, from consideration.

Stefanik went through a confirmation hearing, but her nomination was pulled in March because her vote to advance Trump’s agenda remains crucial to Republicans in the House.

“I’m deeply honored to continue my service to President Trump and our great nation,” Waltz said of the nomination.

A far-right ally of the president, Laura Loomer, had been targeting Waltz, telling Trump in a recent Oval Office conversation that he needs to purge aides who she believes are insufficiently loyal to the “Make America Great Again” agenda.

Waltz served in the House representing Florida for three terms before being tapped for national security adviser.

In his second term, the Republican president had been looking to avoid the tumult of his first four years in office, during which he cycled through four national security advisers, four White House chiefs of staff and two secretaries of state.

The Signal chain episode also showed that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop. Waltz had previously taken “full responsibility” for building the message chain and administration officials described the episode as a “mistake” but one that caused Americans no harm. Waltz maintained that he was not sure how Goldberg ended up in the messaging chain, and insisted he did not know the journalist.

Trump and the White House — which insisted that no classified information was shared on the text chain — have stood by Waltz publicly throughout the episode. But the embattled national security adviser was also under siege from personalities such as Loomer, who had been complaining to administration officials that she had been excluded from the vetting process for National Security Council aides.

In her view, Waltz relied too much on “neocons” — referring to hawkish neoconservatives within the Republican Party — as well as others who Loomer argued were “not-MAGA-enough” types.

As reports began to circulate that Waltz could be leaving the administration, Loomer appeared to take credit in a post on the social media site X, writing: “SCALP.”

“Hopefully, the rest of the people who were set to be fired but were given promotions at the NSC under Waltz also depart,” Loomer wrote in another post.

Loomer had taken a similar victory lap when several other NSC officials were dismissed last month one day after she met with Trump.

Questions are also swirling around Hegseth and his role in the Signal chat.

While Waltz set it up, Hegseth posted times for aircraft launches and bomb drops into the unsecured app and shared the same information with dozens of people in a second chat, including his wife and brother.

The Associated Press reported that Hegseth also bypassed Pentagon security protocols to set up an unsecured line for a personal computer in his office –- beside terminals where he was receiving classified information. That raises the possibility that sensitive information could have been put at risk of potential hacking or surveillance.

The Pentagon inspector general is investigating Hegseth’s use of Signal, and he has faced criticism from Democrats and even some Republicans. It has added to the turmoil at the Pentagon at a time when Hegseth has dismissed or transferred multiple close advisers. Nonetheless, Trump has maintained public confidence in Hegseth.

Waltz shift from national security adviser to U.N. ambassador nominee means he will now have to face the Senate confirmation process he was able to avoid January.

The process, which proved to be difficult for a number of Trump’s Cabinet picks, will give lawmakers, especially Democrats, the first chance to grill Waltz on his decision to share information about an imminent U.S. airstrike on Signal. The group chat, which Waltz created, included several high-level Trump administration officials and the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine.

Associated Press writer Tara Copp and Matthew Lee contributed to this report.

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GREENFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — The Greenfield Police Department on Thursday is requesting the public’s help identifying a counterfeit suspect.

The man pictured ordered food at a local restaurant and paid using a counterfeit bill, taking the change back, and never returning for the food.

Investigators ask that anyone with information on this man contact Detective Ryan Chappell at rchappell@greenfieldin.org or by phone at 317-477-4410.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A man and woman from Kentucky were arrested Thursday in Spencer county after an Indiana State Police K9 office detected drugs in their vehicle.

Trooper Andrew Recker was patrolling Interstate 64 near Ferdinand around 8:10 p.m. when he stopped a Chevrolet Camaro for speeding.

State police say Recker became suspicious while talking to the occupants of the car, identified as 34-year-old William Byarly and 35-year-old Amy Peek, and asked for a K-9 officer.

Trooper Lauer and his K9 partner, Barker, arrived a short time later. ISP says Barker performed an open-air sniff of the car and alerted Lauer to the presence of drugs.

During a search of the vehicle, officers found methamphetamine, marijuana, hypodermic needles, other narcotics, and drug paraphernalia.

Byarly and Peek were arrested for drug possession and transported to the Spencer County Jail.

Formal charges have not been filed.

AUBURN, Ind. (WISH) — An Indiana State Police trooper arrested a Michigan man in a DeKalb County construction zone Tuesday for possessing illegal drugs.

On Tuesday, an ISP trooper was conducting a routine patrol in a designated construction zone in DeKalb County. The trooper initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle that was operating without headlights or taillights. After further investigation, the trooper found a substance believed to be illegal.

Preliminary field testing identified the substance as suspected cocaine. Additionally, several items of drug paraphernalia and a handgun were recovered from the vehicle.

The driver, identified as Steven Yntema, 65, of Saginaw, Michigan, was arrested for possession of cocaine with enhancing circumstance, possession of paraphernalia, and operating while intoxicated – controlled substance.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A man died Thursday afternoon after they were shot at a northwest side apartment complex.

IMPD says the shooting happened just after 2 p.m. in the 2900 block of Rolling Dunes Drive. That’s in the Waterfront Pointe Apartments off Crawfordsville Road just west of the I-465 and I-74 split.

Officers arrived on an original report of a vehicle accident with injuries that was updated to a person shot. Investigators then located a male suffering a gunshot wound. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

IMPD has not provided any information on what led up to the shooting or if there were any suspects. A public information officer was expected to provide an update soon.

News 8 has a crew heading to the scene.

DISCLAIMER: This story includes brief mention of domestic violence against a minor. News 8 has chosen not to identify the relationship between the suspect and victim.

ANDERSON, Ind. (WISH) — The director of an addiction recovery center in Anderson has been arrested after police say he battered a 15-year-old.

Capt. Darwin Dwiggins with the Madison County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the arrest to News 8 early Thursday.

According to Dwiggins, Karl Lazar, 43, was taken into custody at his home outside Anderson sometime Friday. It was not clear what led up to Lazar’s arrest or if anyone else was involved.

Following his arrest, Lazar was booked into the Madison County jail and released Monday. An online jail tracker shows he faces preliminary charges of confinement and domestic battery resulting in moderate bodily injury.

Lazar works as the director of operations at Grace Recovery and Wellness, Dwiggins said. According to its website, Grace Recovery is an addiction treatment center that offers “medication assisted treatment for opioid and alcohol substance abuse.” Lazar also manages Grace House, a sober living housing facility for those transitioning from addiction to sobriety.

Prosecutors told News 8 Thursday charges have not been filed yet as the case is still under review.

News 8 also reached out to Grace Recovery and Wellness for information on Lazar, but they declined to comment.

Help is available for victims of domestic violence. Below is a list of suggested resources on the Domestic Violence Network website:

• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788
• National Domestic Violence Hotline en español: 800-799-7233 o texto “START” al 88788
• Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence: 24-hour hotline available at 800-332-7385
• Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking
• La Plaza Indy
• The Julian Center
• Indiana Child Abuse Hotline: 800-800-5556
• National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800-656-4673