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IMPD chief: No curfew violations during WNBA All-Star/Indiana Black Expo weekend

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Chris Bailey on Sunday reported that there were no curfew violations during WNBA All-Star/Indiana Black Expo weekend.

Once again, no children were brought into our safe & secure location last night. Huge thanks to parents, guardians, family members, and our incredible community partners who helped staff the site all weekend. This is what community looks like. This is for our kids.

I also want to thank those who worked alongside us last night to help keep downtown safe, including our partners at @IndStatePolice and @charlesharriso5‘s Indy TenPoint Coalition. We’re grateful for your continued collaboration and support.

Chris Bailey, chief of police for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

The youth curfew began after a Fourth of July mass shooting in downtown Indianapolis that ended with two teenagers dead and five others injured near Illinois Street and Washington Street, just below the Indianapolis Artsgarden.

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Indianapolis Burger Week returns

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Attention burger lovers: Indianapolis Burger Week returns this Monday with $7/$8 gourmet burgers from local restaurants across the city.

From July 21 through July 27, this event will celebrate Indy’s rich and creative burger scene. Participants include neighborhood favorites and exciting new spots.

“Burger Week was a SMASH success! We met several new customers who have already been back to try our other burgers. Can’t wait for next year!” said a representative from Smash’d Burger Bar, one of the many local restaurants returning for this year’s celebration.

Diners can explore participating restaurants and track their burger stops through the official Indy Burger Week app, which is available for free download on the Apple Store and Google Play.

How to Win

  • Check in at four or more participating locations using the app and you’ll be entered to win the grand prize: $500 in local restaurant gift cards.
  • Earn points by dining out and enjoying featured drinks, including Maker’s Mark cocktails and Sidral Mundet apple soda. The top point-earner also wins $500 in gift cards.

Event Info

  • July 21-27, $7/$8 burgers.
  • Age: This is an all-ages event. Some locations may be 21+.
  • Indy Burger Week App: Check in at four or more restaurants to be entered for a grand prize drawing of $500 in gift cards. Earn the most points and you could also receive $500 in gift cards!
  • Social media promotion: Follow @IndyBurgerWeek on Instagram.
  • Menus and details available at burgerweekindianapolis.com.
  • RSVP to the Facebook event for updates : https://www.facebook.com/events/1742118166393065

Scottie Scheffler dominates British Open with 4-shot victory

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Scottie Scheffler had all the time in the world to celebrate his latest major title. This British Open was never in doubt Sunday as golf’s No. 1 player delivered another dominant performance to win his second major this year and grab the third leg of the career Grand Slam.

Scheffler began with a shot into 10 inches for birdie. One hour into the final round, his lead already was seven shots and no got closer than four the rest of the way at Royal Portrush.

He closed with a 3-under 68 for a four-shot victory, sending him to the U.S. Open next year with a chance to make it a clean sweep of golf’s biggest titles.

Scheffler won the Masters by three shots in 2022 and by four shots last year. He won the PGA Championship by five shots in May.

And then he arrived in Northern Ireland and shared some extraordinary insight when he said celebrating tournament wins doesn’t last but a few minutes before it was on to the next one. He loves the work required to be the best. He thrives on competition. But in terms of fulfillment, he often questions why he wants to win so badly when the thrill of winning is fleeting.

He tapped in for par on the final hole, making it all look so routine. But then he saw his family, thrust both arms into the air, pumped both arms and tossed his cap in the air. That’s what it was all about for the 29-year-old from Texas.

And he gets to keep the silver claret jug for a year.

Rory McIlroy referred to the outcome as “inevitable” when Scheffler built a four-shot lead going into the final round, and it was every bit of that.

Less selection, higher prices: How tariffs are shaping the holiday shopping season

NEW YORK (AP) — With summer in full swing in the United States, retail executives are sweating a different season. It’s less than 22 weeks before Christmas, a time when businesses that make and sell consumer goods usually nail down their holiday orders and prices.

But President Donald Trump’s vacillating trade policies, part of his effort to revive the nation’s diminished manufacturing base and to reduce the U.S. deficit in exported goods, have complicated those end-of-year plans. Balsam Hill, which sells artificial trees and other decorations online, expects to publish fewer and thinner holiday catalogs because the featured products keep changing with the tariff — import tax — rates the president sets, postpones and revises.

“The uncertainty has led us to spend all our time trying to rejigger what we’re ordering, where we’re bringing it in, when it’s going to get here,” Mac Harman, CEO of Balsam Hill parent company Balsam Brands, said. “We don’t know which items we’re going to have to put in the catalog or not.”

Months of confusion over which foreign countries’ products may become more expensive to import has left a question mark over the holiday shopping season. U.S. retailers often begin planning for the winter holidays in January and typically finalize the bulk of their orders by the end of June. The seesawing tariffs already have factored into their calculations.

The consequences for consumers? Stores may not have the specific gift items customers want come November and December. Some retail suppliers and buyers scaled back their holiday lines rather than risking a hefty tax bill or expensive imports going unsold. Businesses still are setting prices but say shoppers can expect many things to cost more, though by how much depends partly on whether Trump’s latest round of “reciprocal” tariffs kicks in next month.

The lack of clarity has been especially disruptive for the U.S. toy industry, which sources nearly 80% of its products from China. American toy makers usually ramp up production in April, a process delayed until late May this year after the president put a 145% tariff on Chinese goods, according to Greg Ahearn, president and CEO of the Toy Association, an industry trade group.

The U.S. tariff rate may have dropped significantly from its spring high — a truce in the U.S.-China trade war is set to expire on Aug. 12 — but continues to shape the forthcoming holiday period. Manufacturing activity is way down from a year ago for small- and medium-sized U.S. toy companies, Ahearn said.

The late start to factory work in China means holiday toys are only now arriving at U.S. warehouses, industry experts said. A big unknown is whether tariffs will keep stores from replenishing supplies of any breakout hit toys that emerge in September, said James Zahn, editor-in-chief of the trade publication Toy Book.

In the retail world, planning for Christmas in July usually involves mapping out seasonal marketing and promotion strategies. Dean Smith, who co-owns independent toy stores JaZams in Princeton, New Jersey, and Lahaska, Pennsylvania, said he recently spent an hour and a half running through pricing scenarios with a Canadian distributor because the wholesale cost of some products increased by 20%.

Increasing his own prices that much might turn off customers, Smith said, so he explored ways to “maintain a reasonable margin without raising prices beyond what consumers would accept.” He ordered a lower cost Crazy Forts building set so he would have the toy on hand and left out the kids’ edition of the Anomia card game because he didn’t think customers would pay what he would have to charge.

“In the end, I had to eliminate half of the products that I normally buy,” Smith said.

Hilary Key, owner of The Toy Chest in Nashville, Indiana, said she tries to get new games and toys in early most years to see which ones she should stock up on for the winter holidays. This year, she abandoned her product testing for fear any delayed orders would incur high import taxes.

Meanwhile, vendors of toys made in China and elsewhere bombarded Key with price increase notices. For example, Schylling, which makes Needoh, Care Bear collectibles and modern versions of nostalgic toys like My Little Pony, increased prices on orders by 20%, according to Key.

All the price hikes are subject to change if the tariff situation changes again. Key worries her store won’t have as compelling a product assortment as she prides herself on carrying.

“My concern is not that I’ll have nothing, because I can bring in more books. I can bring in more gifts, or I can bring in just things that are manufactured in other places,” she said. “But that doesn’t mean I’m going to have the best stock for every developmental age, for every special need.”

The retail industry may have to keep taking a whack-a-mole approach to navigating the White House’s latest tariff ultimatums and temporary reprieves. Last week, the president again reset the rates on imports from Brazil, the European Union, Mexico, and other major trading partners but said they would not take effect until Aug. 1.

The brief pause should extend the window importers have to bring in seasonal merchandise at the current baseline tariff of 10%. The Port of Los Angeles had the busiest June in its 117-year history after companies raced to secure holiday shipments, and July imports look strong so far, according to Gene Seroka, the port’s executive director.

“In my view, we’re seeing a peak season push right now to bring in goods ahead of potentially higher tariffs later this summer,” Seroka said Monday.

The pace of port activity so far this year reflects a “tariff whipsaw effect” — imports slowing when tariffs kick in and rebounding when they’re paused, he said. “For us consumers, lower inventory levels, fewer selections and higher prices are likely as we head into the holidays.”

Smith, who co-owns the two JaZams stores with his partner, Joanne Farrugia, said they started placing holiday orders two months earlier than usual for “certain items that we felt were essential for us to have at particular pricing.” They doubled their warehouse space to store the stockpile. But some shoppers are trying to get ahead of higher prices just like businesses are, he said.

He’s noticed customers snapping up items that will likely be popular during the holidays, like Jellycat plush toys and large stuffed unicorns and dogs. Any sales are welcome, but Smith and Farrugia are wary of having to restock at a higher cost.

“We’re just trying to be as friendly as we can to the consumer and still have a product portfolio or profile that is gonna meet the needs of all of our various customers, which is getting more and more challenging by the day,” Smith said.

Balsam Brands’ Harman said he’s had to resign himself to not having as robust a selection of ornaments and frosted trees to sell as in years’ past. Soon, it will be too late to import meaningful additions to his range of products.

“Our purpose as a company is to create joy together, and we’re going to do our very best to do that this year,” Harman said. “We’re just not going to have a bunch of the items that consumers want this year, and that’s not a position we want to be in.”

‘Superman’ flexes its might in second weekend with $57.3 million

NEW YORK (AP) — James Gunn’s “Superman” showed staying power in its second weekend at North American box offices, collecting $57.3 million in ticket sales and remaining the No. 1 movie in cinemas, according to studio estimates Sunday.

None of the week’s new releases — “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Smurfs,” and “Eddington” — came close to touching Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ superhero success. “Superman” dipped 54% from its domestic opening, an average decline for a big summer film.

In two weeks, “Superman” has grossed $406.8 million worldwide, a good start for the movie DC Studios is banking on to restart its movie operations. A big test looms next weekend, when the Walt Disney Co. releases Marvel’s “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.”

Strong audience scores and good reviews should help propel the $225 million-budgeted “Superman” toward profitability in the coming weeks. For Warner Bros. and DC Studios, “Superman” is key to kicking off a 10-year plan for the comic book adaptation studio. Co-heads Gunn and Peter Safra were tasked with rehabilitating the flagging operation. Next on tap are the films “Supergirl” and “Clayface” in 2026.

But “Superman” is far from flying solo in theaters right now. Universal Pictures’ “Jurassic World: Rebirth” came in second this weekend, with $23.4 million in its third week of release. The seventh “Jurassic” movie, this one starring Scarlett Johansson, held its own despite the competition from “Superman.” In three weeks, it accrued $648 million worldwide.

Apple Studios and Warner Bros.’ “F1: The Movie” has also shown legs, especially internationally. In its fourth weekend, the Brad Pitt racing drama dipped just 26% domestically, bringing in $9.6 million in North America, and another $29.5 million overseas. Its global total stands at $460.8 million.

But both of the biggest new releases — Sony Pictures’ “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and Paramount Pictures’ “Smurfs” — fell flat.

“I Know What You Did Last Summer” opened with $13 million, a fair result for a movie budgeted at a modest $18 million, but a disappointing opening for a well-known horror franchise. The film, directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, is set 27 years after the 1997 original. Teenagers played by Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders are again haunted for covering up a car accident.

The movie’s reviews (38% “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes) were poor for “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and audiences graded it similarly. The film notched a “C+” on CinemaScore. The original collected $72.6 million in its domestic run in 1997.

Paramount Pictures’ “Smurfs” debuted in fourth place this weekend with $11 million. The latest big-screen reboot for the woodland blue creatures prominently features Rihanna as the voice of Smurfette. But reviews (21% “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes) were terrible. Audiences were kinder, giving it a “B+” on CinemaScore, but the $58 million-budgeted release will depend largely on its international sales. In 56 overseas markets, “Smurfs” earned $22.6 million.

Ari Aster’s “Eddington” opened with $4.2 million on 2,111 screens for A24. Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, “Eddington” has been particularly divisive. The pandemic-set Western features Joaquin Phoenix as the right-wing sheriff of a small New Mexico town who faces off with its liberal mayor (Pedro Pascal).

While Aster’s first film, 2018’s “Heredity” ($82.8 million worldwide against a $10 million budget) helped establish A24 as an indie powerhouse, but the less-than-stellar launch of “Eddington” marks the second box-office disappointment for Aster. His 2023 film “Beau Is Afraid” cost $35 million to make but collected just $12.4 million worldwide. “Eddington” cost about $25 million to produce. Audiences gave it a “C+” on CinemaScore. None of Aster’s previous films have been graded higher.

Yet collectively, Hollywood is enjoying a very good summer. According to data firm Comscore, the 2025 summer box office is up 15.9% over the same period last year, with the year-to-date sales running 15% ahead of 2025. Summer ticket sales have amassed about $2.6 billion domestically, according to Comscore.

Top 10 movies by domestic box office

With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore:

1. “Superman,” $57.3 million.

2. “Jurassic World Rebirth,” $23.4 million.

3. “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” $13 million.

4. “Smurfs,” $11 million.

5, “F1: The Movie,” $9.6 million.

6. “How to Train Your Dragon,” $5.4 million.

7. “Eddington,” $4.3 million.

8. “Elio,” $2 million.

9. “Lilo & Stitch,” $1.5 million.

10. “28 Years Later,” $1.3 million.

Colts CB JuJu Brents helps east side students get ready for a new school year

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — On Saturday, Indianapolis Colts cornerback and Warren Central grad Julius “JuJu” Brents joined kids and families on the city’s east side to celebrate the start of a new school year.

Brents, an Indy native, hosted a Community Day and Backpack Giveaway at New Beginnings Fellowship Church on German Church Road.

The event, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., was a chance for local children to meet Brents and get ready for the school year. Brents’ Colts teammates Josh Downs and Tyler Good were also in attendance, making the event even more special for the kids. Together, they distributed 1,000 backpacks filled with school supplies—500 donated by Brents, and another 500 matched by the church.

Each child had the opportunity to not only receive a backpack but also get it autographed by Brents, Downs, and Good, making it a memorable moment. The day was filled with more than just school supplies.

Families enjoyed a variety of activities, including a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, carnival games, and a bounce house. Local food trucks and vendors were on-site to add to the fun, while students were also provided with free health screenings and physical exams. To help the kids feel confident for the new school year, free haircuts were offered to all attendees.

New Beginnings Fellowship Church hopes to make the Backpack Giveaway and Community Day an annual tradition, offering not only school supplies but also vital services that help set students up for success.

‘All INdiana Politics’ | July 20, 2025

All INdiana Politics | July 20, 2025

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — On Sunday’s edition of “All INdiana Politics,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said plans to gut her department won’t harm students who need civil rights representation.

Gov. Mike Braun warned of possible state intervention if recent gun violence in Indianapolis becomes a long-term trend.

News 8’s Phil Sanchez brings in two members of Indiana’s best political team, Democrat Lindsay Haake and Republican Jim Merritt, to discuss Camp Atterbury serving as an immigrant detention site and calls for state officials to intervene on Indianapolis crime.

All INdiana Politics” airs at 9:30 a.m. Sundays on WISH-TV.

WNBA All-Star Game sells out Gainbridge Fieldhouse

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — WNBA fans showed out to Indianapolis for WNBA All-Star weekend, selling out Gainbridge Fieldhouse for the WNBA All-Star Game.

The reported attendance was 16,988.

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert was thankful for everything Indianapolis did to make the weekend special.

“I wanted to extend a heartfelt thank you to Herb Simon and Steve and the Simon family, Mel and Kelly and the entire Indiana Fever organization,” Engelbert said. :Their passion and commitment has truly made this All-Star experience unforgettable. Everybody was involved in a ton of planning around this. Our players, the fans, everybody who loves this game. I want to thank our amazing partners, our All-Star title partner, AT&T. The All-Star presenting partner for WNBA Live. Panini, I actually just came from there. The energy, I was just so impressed. Was incredible. I think it was our best yet. This was an idea a few years ago that was just kind of on the cutting room floor almost. We’ve really brought WNBA Live to life as an incredible Fan Fest.”

Caitlin Clark also had rave reviews for All-Star weekend in Indianapolis.

“I think the weekend has been absolutely incredible and I hope every player in this league, whether you’re participating in the game tonight (Saturday) or were in the three-point competition, skills competition, or were just here to enjoy the All-Star weekend, I hope they feel the same and felt the love from the city,” Clark said. “Pacers Sports and Entertainment poured in so much time, money, and effort to really make this the best WNBA All-Star there’s been in this league and I’m pretty positive it’s been that.”

Team Collier beat Team Clark in the game, 151-131. Napheesa Collier broke the record for most points in a WNBA All-Star Game with 36 points.

Fever All-Star Kelsey Mitchell led Team Clark with 20 points.

Statewide Silver Alert issued for missing man from Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana State Police are asking for the public’s help to find a missing 67-year-old man from Indianapolis.

Rickey Givens was last seen at 9:50 p.m. Saturday and police believe he is in extreme danger.

Givens was described as being 6 feet, 1 inch tall and weighing 180 pounds with gray hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black baseball cap, black sweatshirt, dark blue jeans, and white Converse shoes.

Anyone with information on Rickey Givens should contact the Hendricks County Sheriff’s Department at 317-839-8700 or 911.

Get a big discount on WNBA All-Star swag at the Fever Team Store

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH)–WNBA All-Star weekend is coming to an end here in Indianapolis, but the Indiana Fever has one more fun activity for fans to enjoy.

Fans who want a great deal on official All-Star Game gear can stop by the Fever Team Store inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Sunday for the WNBA All-Star 2025 50% Off Merchandise Sale.

The sale runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at and is open to the public. Fans started lining up outside the store more than an hour before doors opened.

The sale only applies to WNBA All-Star 2025 merchandise, and some exclusions may apply.

All sales are also final and no other discounts apply.

Click here for more WNBA All-Star Weekend coverage from WISH-TV.