INDIANAPOLIS — A person was critically hurt in a shooting late Tuesday night along East 38th Street in Indianapolis, police said.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was called just after 11:45 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a person shot at the intersection of East 38th Street and North Oxford Avenue. Medics were dispatched about five minutes later to a gas station at the intersection, about four blocks east of North Keystone Avenue.

No additional information was immediately available from IMPD.

INDIANAPOLIS — One person was hurt in a shooting near the Statehouse Tuesday night, Indiana State Capitol Police said.

Police were called to the scene just before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at 10 N. Senate Ave.

Capitol Police Sgt. Robert Johnson said an officer on patrol was approached by a witness who informed him of a man on the street who appeared to have been shot in his lower leg.

The officer found the man and began rendering aid before other officers and medical personnel arrived on the scene, Johnson said.

The man was taken to Eskenazi Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Johnson said the incident was still under investigation, and did not give details on a possible suspect, but he did say there was no ongoing threat to the public.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A year removed from the team’s lowest win total in franchise history, a fully healthy Tyrese Haliburton, and a six-month offseason to regroup, the Pacers have another NBA Finals appearance at the front of their minds.

But first, getting off to a hot start to the regular season is the first priority.

“I think that’s something that I haven’t been able to do in my career is have a good start to the season,” Haliburton said. “So that’s definitely something that we want to do as a group. Feel like we definitely prepared well for this game one and these early games.”

The Pacers start the regular season this Wednesday, October 21, on the road against the New Orleans Pelicans. As the blue and gold tip off the season this week, both head coach Rick Carlisle and forward Pascal Siakam are excited to go full speed again.

“We’ve been working hard during preseason,” Carlisle said. “We’ve done some good things. We continue to work on things we need to work on. It’s always exciting when the season starts.”

“It’s been great just getting ready, getting the guys acclimated to everything,” Siakam said. “We’re all just excited to get to the game and start playing. Kind of tired of playing against each other, so go out there and perform.”

Perhaps no one is more excited than Tyrese Halibuton, who missed all of last season rehabbing from an Achilles tear.

“When you’re hurt and you miss a whole year, have a major injury like that… It was the first time I’d thought about what life would be like after basketball,” Haliburton said. “But I do know that I have a lot more to offer. I have a lot more to bring to the table as a basketball player, and I don’t want to retire or be done playing without accomplishing everything I want in life so I’m just excited for the year to come, and chase my dream, and try to win a championship.”

While the Pacers have their eyes on an NBA title, both Coach Carlisle and Siakam know the road to success starts with building the right habits.

“We’re just a process team, and outcomes are distractions, and we just have to keep our eye on the ball with how we do things on a day-to-day basis, and you know the results hopefully take care of themselves,” Carlisle said.

“We know what we have, and I think it’s one thing to talk about it,” Siakam added. “It’s another thing to go out there and do it.”

(CNN) — Since 2021, Christina Applegate has been one of the most famous advocates for living with multiple sclerosis. Now she says she has discovered that she doesn’t actually have the disease.

Applegate shared the shocking news Tuesday during an episode of the podcast she hosts with the actress and MS patient Jamie Lynn Sigler about life with MS, “MeSsy.”

Sigler had been hosting the podcast solo for seven months while Applegate dealt with her worsening health. Talking to Sigler in her return appearance, Applegate got emotional when she described how her doctor had told her that recent test results had ruled out the condition.

“It’s hard to say, but she came into my room and she said, ‘Congratulations, you don’t have MS.’” Applegate said. “I was like, not happy at all. Everybody else was so happy.”

MS is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body’s own healthy cells, affecting the nervous system. It can be debilitating for some. For Applegate, her previous diagnosis of MS had offered an explanation for her ongoing struggle with symptoms including tingling and numbness in her extremities, lack of coordination, balance issues and difficulty walking.

Earlier this year, the “Married With Children” star told People magazine she had been spending most of her time in bed because she has been so ill.

Recent testing utilizing new technology led to the conclusion that she does not have MS.

“This may come as good news…but I’m back at square one,” Applegate said tearfully on the podcast.

The finding is not as surprising as it sounds.

A study titled “Incidence of multiple sclerosis misdiagnosis in referrals to two academic centers” found that nearly 1 in 5 patients with an MS diagnosis did not fully meet the criteria for the disease and “had a much more likely alternate diagnosis.”

Applegate and Sigler addressed that during their two-part podcast episode, with a guest appearance by one of the authors of that study Dr. Marwa Kaisey, an associate professor with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center department of neurology.

Kaisey told them that some people had gone on for years with a misdiagnosis of MS, and many of them were prescribed medication to treat it.

The doctor talked about what she referred to as the “push and pull of the diagnostic process.”

“We’re so eager to get people diagnosed because we know that the earlier we start them on treatment the better they’re going to do decades from then,” Kaisey said. “But at the same time we have to be really careful to give them the accurate diagnosis.”

Applegate has had a rough time of it since her initial, now apparently wrong, diagnosis.

Her health deteriorated to the point that she had to leave her hit Netflix series “Dead to Me” which concluded with season three in November 2022.

She authored a memoir titled “You With the Sad Eyes,” which addressed the condition. During the podcast, she told Sigler that the pair of them had become “the poster children for MS.”

Learning about the wrong diagnosis has not led to her being healed and has been a “mindf**k” Applegate said. She sadly marveled at how she had lived with something for years, believing all the while that doctors knew what it was.

“I haven’t gotten better, Jamie! If anything, I’ve gotten worse. So I’m back at square one where I don’t know what’s going on with me,” she said. “And that’s going to be an online investigation that my doctors are going to be getting into just to find out what has been going on since 2021, why did this happen?”

She also spoke about her depression and how she has “lost everything” including her job.

“I still have to use wheelchairs when I go to the doctor’s office. I can’t walk from the car to the room. I’m still in this,” Applegate said. “Nothing magical happened when she said, ‘You don’t have MS.’”

The star’s doctors are continuing to try and determine what is causing her symptoms.

INDIANAPOLIS — Open enrollment is underway for Medicare and many other insurance providers.

Scammers know this and experts say they’re ramping up their efforts to steal your information.

Typically, the scammer will send a text message about open enrollment, giving you a phone number to call or a link to click.

Medicare and insurance carriers are not going to text you out of the blue, unless you’ve opted in for certain communications.

The State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) in Indiana is already seeing an increase in open enrollment scams.

“One of the newer things like we’re seeing this fall already is individuals receiving text messages as well as phone calls from scammers saying, ‘Hey, log on to this particular website, and you can change your plan from here,’” Ben Hudson, Medicare training director for the SHIP said. “Unfortunately, those websites or the direct links that are in the text messages end up taking you to websites that may look legitimate on surface level.”

The fake websites are designed to steal your personal information, especially your Medicare number.

“Your Medicare number can generate millions of dollars in fraud just off one Medicare number potentially,” Hudson said. “Even more so if a fraud than if a fraudster had access to your Social Security number.”

Scammers and dishonest medical providers can file fraudulent healthcare claims and bill Medicare.

Fraud, mistakes and abuse cost Medicare an estimated $60 billion each year.

“If you don’t understand something on your Medicare statement, you have the right and responsibility to call that provider and find out what that charge was for,” Nancy Moore with Indiana Senior Medicare Patrol said.

You can protect yourself by typing Medicare.gov into your browser and click on Find Plans.

If you don’t have Medicare, go through your employer’s portal or type in your insurance carrier’s website.

“Make sure it is the actual website for Humana, Anthem, United, just double-check on that,” Hudson said.

Because of all the healthcare data breaches, the scammers may know a lot about you include your name, doctor, and your medical history.

“1-800-452-4800 is our main hotline,” Hudson said. “We actually have a call center of Medicare-trained counselors at the Department of Insurance building in Indianapolis. But anyone across the state can give us a call.”

You can also call 1-800-MEDICARE if you’re not sure if a text, email or phone call you received is legitimate.

Report Medicare fraud to the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General online [oig.hhs.gov] or at 1-800-HHS-TIPS (1-800-447-8477). It helps them track down the scammers and try to stop them.

If you suspect Medicare fraud, call your health care provider or Medicare plan and ask for an explanation. If you aren’t satisfied with their response, call your local Senior Medicare Patrol [consumer.ftc.gov] for help filing a report, or call Medicare at 1-800-MEDICARE.

INDIANAPOLIS — A 27-year-old man faces manslaughter charges after his arrest in connection with a deadly fight in a gas station parking lot in Indianapolis’s far east side.

Online jail records show suspect Trey Clardy was booked into the Marion County jail Monday following the death of Charles Dupree, 18, on Oct. 12.

News 8 previously reported that Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were dispatched just before 7:50 p.m. to a Marathon gas station at the intersection of East 38th Street and North Mitthoeffer Road on a report of a personal injury accident.

There, they found Dupree suffering from traumatic injuries. The victim was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

IMPD Capt. Rob Rider told media at the scene that Dupree’s injuries were not an accident and likely the result of a fight between at least two people. The suspect fled the scene before police arrival.

Over the course of the investigation, IMPD soon identified Clardy as a suspect. Officers found Clardy on Monday and took him into custody.

Inmate records show Clardy faces charges of involuntary manslaughter, possession of cocaine and marijuana, and dealing in cocaine.

The Marion County prosecutor was expected to make the final charging decisions.

Anyone with information on this incident was asked to contact Det. Jose Torres at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or by email at Jose.Torres@indy.gov.

This is a developing story.