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Colts battle high temperatures at training camp

WESTFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — The Colts were battling the heat on Thursday at practice on the second day of training camp in Grand Park.

The sun was beating down and the humidity was high, with a heat advisory in place as well.

But for one new Colt, he’s used to weather like this.

“I live in the Philippines,” Colts safety Camryn Bynum said. “We’re good. This is nothing.”

He spends his offseason training in the Philippines as well.

“It’s cool being able to train out there with the great resources we have at the facility, but also be able to live somewhere where it’s hot and humid, so I come back in this heat, I’m wearing sweats and a hoodie and I’m chillin’,” Bynum said.

Bynum signed a four-year, $60 million contract with the Colts this offseason. He spent his first four seasons in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings. Over the last two seasons combined, he has five interceptions and 233 tackles.

The Colts will continue to practice in the heat and the humidity, with highs in the low-90s for most of the next seven days.

The Colts have scheduled morning practices for most of training camp, which keeps them out of the heat of the day. When they do practice in the afternoon, they normally start practice at 4 p.m. The Colts practice at 3 p.m. once (August 14 for a joint practice with the Packers).

Despite practicing in the heat, coaches and players have been impressed with rookie tight end Tyler Warren.

“We’re excited about his development,” Colts offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter said. “We’re excited about the direction he’s headed. He’s working really hard. We’re going to need to keep that going.”

“You can tell he’s going to be really good,” Bynum said. “He’s one of those guys that if you didn’t tell me he just got drafted, I wouldn’t know. He operates as a veteran. He can do a lot. Obviously we haven’t been in pads yet, but I can tell he can block just by his footwork and just the intent that he has.”

There were a few veteran players that did not practice on Thursday as a standard rest day.

The Colts get back on the practice field on Friday from 10-11:15 a.m.

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Video shows Noblesville gun store burglary on Fourth of July

Video from ATF: July 4, 2025, gun store burglary in Noblesville, Indiana

Provided video from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — Federal authorities on Thursday offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the people responsible for a July 4 burglary at a downtown Noblesville gun store.

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Shooting Sports Foundation announced the reward for information about the burglary at 4:45 a.m. July 4 at Hoosier Armory.

During the burglary, a suspect used a vehicle to crash into the front of the store to gain entry, and video shows five people entering the premises, stealing a firearm and other merchandise before fleeing.

The ATF’s Indianapolis Field Office and the Noblesville Police Department are jointly investigating the case. Authorities asked anyone with information to contact ATF at 888-283-8477, atftips@atf.gov, or through the ReportIt app.

The July 4 robbery was the second at the store since September.

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on July 24, 2025, provide the video with this story.

Negotiations set to resume for 8,000 Kroger employees in Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Kroger and the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700 union say its representatives will return to the bargaining table on Friday.

The union said in a news release on Thursday that its members have rejected two tentative contracts with Kroger. Members say they are seeking wage increases, making some wage hikes retroactive and other benefits.

Kroger, in a negotiation update issued Thursday, proposed agreement includes a 15.6% wage increase over three years, with top-rate clerks receiving an immediate 5.7% raise.

The proposal also features what Kroger calls industry-leading health care benefits and a fully funded pension plan, reflecting the priorities shared by the associate-led bargaining committee.

Kroger says, for top-tier plans, associate-only health care coverage costs 76% less than the national average and 68% less than the state average.

The union says a strike is not imminent. The union represents more than 8,000 Kroger employees in Indiana, basically everyone except managers.

Family remembers woman shot and killed by husband before deadly Indy police chase

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A woman, named Tina, was shot by her husband of over 30 years, according to her family. The shooting happened Thursday morning at a northeast east side home and led to a police chase that left the husband dead.

I-Team 8 spent the afternoon speaking to Tina’s family as they remembered her legacy.

Around 7:20 a.m., Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers found Tina critically wounded at a home on North Ritter Avenue near the intersection of 46th Street and Arlington Avenue. Tina was taken to the hospital, where she later died.

“She had been staying over here for a few days, you know, just relax, from life and reality,” Tina’s close friend Monica Gaither said, referring to the northeast side home.

The violent morning marked the end to an over 30-year marriage. Gaither says Tina was staying at her sister’s home to escape some of the domestic violence she was facing at the hands of her husband.

“With domestic violence, you never see and you could never underestimate anybody as well, because we all deal with mental illness in some shape, form or fashion,” Gaither said. “I didn’t see it coming.”

“She was just a kind and loving person,” Tina’s nephew D’Marco Wilson said. “Anything I asked her for, she never told me no, she was just kind and lovely.”

Those that loved her, including Wilson, want her to be remembered not for how she died, but for how she lived. She was a mom to two boys and four grandchildren.

“Her son had passed away a couple years ago,” Wilson said. “Then she’s got another one that’s older, he’s still alive.”

Her loved ones say they knew Tina was facing domestic violence, but did not know just how bad it had become, or where it would lead.

“Life sometimes can happen, and if you see signs in a domestic dispute…just run, just run, because one sign can be the sign of many bad signs, you know what I mean, nobody’s seen it coming,” Gaither said.

Jazz reimagined: Deborah Silver brings ‘Basie Rocks!’ to Feinstein’s

Deborah Silver performs in Carmel tonight

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Songstress Deborah Silver will reimagine rock classics with a big band jazz twist when she takes the stage at Feinstein’s at Hotel Carmichael on Thursday.

On her newest release, “Basie Rocks!”, Silver and the Count Basie Orchestra transform classic rock hits into jazz standards, offering a fresh take on beloved songs.

Silver says she and producer Steve Jordan worked hard to make classics by The Beatles, Elton John, Peter Frampton, and other rock icons into a “cool” experience for longtime jazz fans and new listeners.

“We had to make sure that what we did was something that would work in today’s world,” Silver said during a visit to WISH-TV’s Daybreak. “Steve Jordan, he said, ‘You know what? You have to make sure they’re cool, and if you have to think whether or not they’re cool, they ain’t cool.’ So, we were going for cool, and we hope that’s what happened.”

Silver’s performance at Feinstein’s includes a dinner and show package, with tickets priced at $39 and a $25 minimum for food and beverages.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Click here for ticket and event information.

Deputies find drugs, guns near children in Kokomo home arrest

Traffic stop leads to drug bust in Howard County

KOKOMO, Ind. (WISH) — After stopping a car for what they say was a broken headlight, the Howard County Sheriff’s Office says they arrested Sidney Brown, 30, and Dakota Jourdan, 34.

During the traffic stop at the intersection of Sycamore Street and Berkley Road, the Howard County Sheriff’s Office says a deputy smelled marijuana. While searching the car, the deputy found methamphetamine and marijuana.

Brown was arrested without incident.

That investigation led deputies to more drugs at a home in the 600 block of North Dixon Road. They say two girls, one 11 and the other 9, were with Jourdan in the home.

Deputies searched the house and “heard what sounded like the slide of a handgun being racked,” the Sheriff’s Office says. The deputies then arrested Jourdan without incident.

Drugs, guns and ammunition, a scale and cash were found “unsecured and within close proximity to the children’s room.”

Both girls were put in the care of a family member after the arrests.

Woman dies after shooting on Indy’s northeast side, family confirms

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A woman who was shot Thursday morning on the city’s northeast side has died of injuries, family members confirmed to News 8.

Around 7:20 a.m., Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers found the woman critically wounded at a home on North Ritter Avenue near the intersection of 46th Street and Arlington Avenue.

The woman was taken to a hospital but did not survive.

IMPD confirmed the suspect drove away from the scene and was shot by police a short time later on West 32nd Street opposite Crown Hill Cemetery.

Police are still investigating and have not said what led to the shooting.

Anyone with information was asked to contact IMPD or Crime Stoppers.

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Indy Habitat breaks ground on 10-home affordable housing project

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Community leaders, alongside the Greater Indianapolis Habitat for Humanity, broke ground on a new housing project on the city’s northeast side on Thursday.

The 10-home development at 46th Street and Millersville Road marks the nonprofit’s first “full-scale neighborhood” in 25 years. Plans call for two-story homes with either three or four bedrooms.

Last year, officials at Indy Habitat reported a record number of applications for its homeownership program.

President and CEO Jim Morris says there is an urgent need for affordable housing and this project will help address that need.

“The ceremony part’s exciting. What we’re more excited about is actually start moving dirt, the real dirt, to develop the property, put a street in. That’ll start this fall,” Morris said.

In 2024, the group also says it helped build 32 homes and repair 48 homes in central Indiana. It met its three-year goal of 300 homes built or repaired across locally and internationally.

2025 marked the start of a new three-year plan for the nonprofit. Between 2025 and 2027, organizers hope to help with 600 homes. The new neighborhood project fits into that plan, says Abri Hoechseler, VP for development at Greater Indianapolis Habitat for Humanity.

“This is an opportunity for us to diversify what we do and how we do it in order to serve more families. Ultimately, we are here to walk alongside families to become first-time homeowners, and projects like this allow us to expand the ways we do that,” Hoechseler explained.

Leaders say five homes will be completed next year. The last five homes will be move-in ready by 2027.

Visit Indy Habitat’s website to learn how to apply for a home or for more information about its resources.

Chuck Mangione, Grammy-winning jazz musician, dead at 84

(CNN) — Chuck Mangione, noted flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer, has died. He was reportedly 84.

The news was confirmed via a press release out of a funeral home in Rochester, New York, on behalf of Mangione’s family, who said they were “deeply saddened to share that Chuck peacefully passed away in his sleep at his home in Rochester” on Tuesday.

Mangione, a flugelhorn player whose composition “Feels So Good” became an unlikely pop hit in 1978, was a Rochester native who started playing jazz as a teenager,

He won two Grammy Awards over his 60-year career in music, including one for best instrumental composition for “Bellavia.”

“Feels So Good,” an upbeat instrumental whose full-length version runs nearly 10 minutes, spent 25 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #4 in 1978.

In addition to that signature hit, Mangione was recognizable for his distinctive style at the peak of his career, sporting long hair and a brown felt hat with a feathered band that he later donated to the Smithsonian Institution.

Outside of the music business, Mangione is remembered for his recurring appearances as a tongue-in-cheek version of himself on the primetime Fox animated series “King of the Hill.”

Carmel launches competition for total neighborhood revamp

CARMEL, Ind. (WISH) — Leaders in Carmel are calling for competition and public input in the long-awaited redesign of one of the city’s most promising tracts of land. The goal is to reshape the old CNO Financial campus and much of the property around it, east of U.S. 31 and north of 116th Street, it into a new “district” – with homes, shops, parks and more.

The new “CNO District Design Competition” pits three urban design firms against each other for the best reimagining of the land.

The city planners say Browning Day, Ratio Design, and Yard & Co. will present their visions for the area, and then the public will have the opportunity to review and comment on the designs in August. The city will then consider the comments as it selects the firm that will develop a master plan.

“We are thrilled to have these three talented firms join us in imagining the next great Carmel neighborhood,” Mayor Sue Finkam said in a comment provided by the city. “I’m especially excited that early input from the community will shape the offerings of what will become both another premier gateway to our city, as well as a distinct destination in its own right.”

Mike Hollibaugh, Carmel’s director of community services, points to other recent revamps as models of succes.

“Reshaping this district gives Carmel the opportunity to replace vacant and underutilized buildings surrounded today by large parking lots with new, active districts that build upon the redevelopment success we have had in the City Center, Midtown and Old Meridian Districts,” Hollibaugh said in a release.

Planners say Carmel Clay Parks & Recreation will have a key role in the project, focusing on public spaces, connectivity, and engagement — with potential features that include greenspace, modern office space, public gathering areas, a walkable retail district, and a range of housing options.

The redevelopment comes as demand for walkable residential areas grows, while traditional office space demand declines.

The city says residents will be able to see and comment on the designs from Aug. 4-11, through a public portal or at places like the Carmel Clay Public Library, the Monon Community Center, and Carmel City Hall.

Once the public input is in, the plan calls for a team of city staff and elected officials will recommend a firm for the master plan.