WESTFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — With Colts training camp kicking off on Wednesday, the excitement could be felt for football season at Grand Park.

Colts general manager Chris Ballard talked with the media ahead of the start of training camp. Here are eight storylines from his press conference:

1. Anthony Richardson Sr. is ready to go for training camp

Richardson injured his shoulder during the offseason, causing him to miss the all of mini-camp. Colts head coach Shane Steichen said in June that Richardson felt some aggravation in his AC joint, the same one that he sprained in 2023, cutting his rookie season short.

On Tuesday, Ballard confirmed that Richardson is back and ready to go for the start of training camp.

“Anthony is good to go,” Ballard said. “He’s been throwing for about three weeks now. He’s really upped his volume. First couple weeks, we’ll probably limit some volume, but no real restrictions other than volume restrictions.”

Richardson is entering his third year with the Colts, and this training camp he will have competition for the starting quarterback position.

As for whether this is a make-or-break year for Richardson, Ballard shook his head no.

“Sometimes you got to have a little patience with a guy and let them grow through things… If you think, hey, he’s on the right trajectory, why are you going to flush him just because people outside think you should flush him?” Ballard said. “I don’t agree with that.”

2. Ballard speaks highly of Daniel Jones

Richardson’s competition at the quarterback position will be Daniel Jones, who the Colts signed in free agency.

“Good dude,” Ballad said. “Really good guy. Centered. He’s been through a lot.”

Jones played six seasons with the New York Giants. In 2024, he threw for 2,070 yards, eight touchdowns, and seven interceptions, while completing 64.5% of his passes.

“Daniel’s a very talented player, so it’ll be a fun competition to watch between these two guys,” Ballard said. “They’re both very talented.”

As for the competition itself, Ballard does not have a timetable for the decision.

“I think when Shane (Steichen) and the staff and I and our staff feels like there’s a sure starter, then we’ll move forward with that,” Ballard said. “Timeline? I can’t put one on it.”

3. Ballard on the frustrations of missing the playoffs four straight years

The Colts enter the 2025 season having missed the playoffs in four straight seasons. It’s the longest streak the franchise has had since the 1990s.

“It’s a bothersome thing, especially with the expectations we have here in Indy,” Ballard said.

“At the end of the day, we have to finish the seasons better, because we’ve had some really good football teams that just haven’t got it done,” Ballard said.

4. Training camp is going to look different this season

Ballard mentioned the need to finish seasons better. The Colts have also not started seasons well. They have not won a Week 1 game since 2013.

Ballard and Steichen have decided to make some tweaks to training camp to try to change that trend.

“This will be a pretty physical training camp, and Shane and I have had long talks about that,” Steichen said. “Toughness still wins.”

“I think to be physical, you have to practice physical,” Ballard added.

5. Ballard remembers Jim Irsay during opening statement

Ballard spent time at the beginning of his press conference to talk about longtime Colts owner Jim Irsay, who passed away in May. Irsay spent 53 years with the Colts and became the sole owner in 1997.

“He had as giving of a soul as anybody I’d ever been around,” Ballard said. “I feel very fortunate to have worked for him and he hired me and I’m always grateful. Extremely grateful.”

Ballard said he cares deeply about Irsay, and it’s going to be a big loss.

6. Ballard gives Irsay daughters high praise

Irsay’s three daughters, Carlie Irsay-Gordon, Casey Foyt, and Kalen Jackson, replaced him as the owners of the Colts.

“He passed on to his daughters that same sense of community, to cherish the history of the game, and to carry that forward,” Ballard said. “And I think all three of them are going to be outstanding. I do. I’ve been around them all a bunch.”

7. Ballard is confident in the competition the Colts have within their roster

Ballard was aggressive in free agency this offseason, signing safety Camryn Bynum, cornerback Charvarius Ward, Jones, and more.

“We were more aggressive at the onset of free agency and I think that the players we signed are going to really help us and be good Colts,” Ballard said.

He also set out to create more competition within the Colts roster. He mentioned offensive line battles, as well as the competition between Jaylon Jones, JuJu Brents, and Justin Walley at the cornerback position.

“I think we’ve got good competition across the board,” Ballard said.

8. Ballard on improving the defense

The Colts were 29th in yards allowed and 24th in points allowed in 2024.

“All of us have our name on it,” Ballard said. “Me, coaches, players, everybody has their name on it.”

He added they have to be a better tackling defense and he hopes that they added the right pieces in the offseason to make improvements.

The Colts get on the field for the first time during training camp on Wednesday, with practice starting at 10 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Colts training camp begins on Wednesday.

This will be Colts head coach Shane Steichen’s third season at the helm of the horseshoe.

He said that this year, training camp will look a little bit different so that the players are in better positions to succeed.

There will be a practice under the lights on Thursday, July 31.

Steichen also said they will change some of the things they focus on during practice.

“We’ll do some scrimmages, a lot more scrimmage call-it situations, to put them in those game situations,” Steichen said. “Some sudden change stuff where the offense turns the ball over and the defense has to stop them, or the defense gets a turnover and the offense has to score. Just put them in those mindsets so they’re ready to go on Sundays.”

He added that they want to be in great condition going into the Week 1 opener against the Dolphins.

The main storyline for the Colts at training camp will be the quarterback competition between Anthony Richardson Sr. and Daniel Jones.

Steichen had great things to say about the way Jones looked at offseason practices.

“Just the way he goes about his business,” Steichen said. “He’s the ultimate pro. Been there early, stays late, grinds at it, very smart, intelligent player, did some good things for us in this offseason program and want to continue that in training camp.”

Richardson missed the end of offseason workouts with a shoulder injury.

As for players that impressed Steichen at offseason practices, he shared two rookies, those being tight end Tyler Warren and cornerback Justin Walley.

Steichen also shared what will be his toughest challenge as head coach leading into the season.

“You just got to stay steady,” Steichen said. “You got to stay steady every day you go out there. Obviously there’s ups and downs. You got to fight through adversity. That’s where you find great growth. We just got to stay steady. I got to stay steady with the players and we go from there.”

The Colts first practice at training camp is scheduled for Wednesday from 10-11 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department just wrapped up Phase 1 of its five-year strategic plan to set department policies and priorities.

Now that Phase 1 is completed, the consulting firm, Indianapolis-based Taylor Advising, will compile the responses so the department can come up with a five-year plan.

IMPD Assistant Chief Catherine Cummings said Tuesday, “We don’t know what has been collected. We only know the numbers. So, we know at this point that over 2,000 of our local residents participated in the survey, and participated in the listening sessions/focus groups.”

That number represents less than 1% of the population in Indianapolis.

On the flip side, more than 1,000 officers and professional staff with IMPD participated in the survey. Cummings said, “We had over 71% of our employees participate in this. That’s an unheard of survey response rate.”

IMPD looks to answer key questions raised in the report. Cummings said, “Are they looking for more technology? Are they looking for more of a culture shift for the agency? Are they concerned about how our resources are allocated, or how our budget is spent?”

The report will help IMPD hone in on what is important to its staff and the community. “It’s intended to guide our decisions. It’s intended to set the priorities and the goals for the next five years,” Cummings said.

A preliminary report will be released in the fall with the finalized five-year plan released early in 2026.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis police have made an arrest after a woman was fatally shot at a liquor store on the city’s northwest side.

Just before 3 a.m. Saturday, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to a shooting at Jack’s Liquor Store. That’s at the intersection of 56th Street and Georgetown Road, just west of Saddlebrook Golf Club.

Officers arrived and found 42-year-old Sabrina Harbert suffering from a gunshot wound. She was rushed to a hospital, but did not survive.

Moments after the shooting, IMPD says, officers at the scene found and detained 25-year-old Maurice Howard.

Howard was taken for questioning and, upon consultation with the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, arrested for murder.

Howard was being held Tuesday in the Marion County Jail.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.

COLUMBUS, Ind. (WISH) — Former Columbus Township Trustee Benjamin Jackson has been charged after a state investigation found he spent over $1 million in taxpayer funds on travel, retail, and more.

News 8 previously reported on Jackson when a copy of the report by the Indiana State Board of Accounts was released.

The investigation began on Oct. 15, when an anonymous source claimed Jackson used the Columbus Township credit card to buy first class airline tickets for him and his wife.

The board then called for a review township credit card statements from Jackson’s time as trustee, starting at Dec. 14, 2016 until his resignation on Nov. 22, 2024. The report found that almost 98 percent of the purchases were issued to Jackson, 88 percent of which he used for personal expenses.

In total, Jackson spent $1,123,334.27.

Around $657,000 was dedicated to taking trips to Abu Dhabi, Australia, Steamboat Springs, Colo. and multiple trips to Disney World. Another $150,000 went toward retail purchases.

Additional tens of thousands were poured into cars, coffee machines, college tuition for his children, fishing gear, cannabis products, and a new backyard deck with an inflatable hot tub.

Jackson was charged with 9 counts of theft and 9 counts of official misconduct. Online court records show his case will be handled by special judge from Decatur County, but an initial hearing date has not been set.

Below is the full report by the Indiana State Board of Accounts.

(Associated Press) — Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76.

“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time,” a family statement from Birmingham, England, said. In 2020, he revealed he had Parkinson’s disease after suffering a fall.

Either clad in black or bare-chested, the singer was often the target of parents’ groups for his imagery and once caused an uproar for biting the head off a bat. Later, he would reveal himself to be a doddering and sweet father on the reality TV show “The Osbournes.”

The Big Bang of heavy metal

Black Sabbath’s 1969 self-titled debut LP has been likened to the Big Bang of heavy metal. It came during the height of the Vietnam War and crashed the hippie party, dripping menace and foreboding. The cover of the record was of a spooky figure against a stark landscape. The music was loud, dense and angry, and marked a shift in rock ’n’ roll.

The band’s second album, “Paranoid,” included such classic metal tunes as “War Pigs,” “Iron Man” and “Fairies Wear Boots.” The song “Paranoid” only reached No. 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 but became in many ways the band’s signature song. Both albums were voted among the top 10 greatest heavy metal albums of all time by readers of Rolling Stone magazine.

“Black Sabbath are the Beatles of heavy metal. Anybody who’s serious about metal will tell you it all comes down to Sabbath,” Dave Navarro of the band Jane’s Addiction wrote in a 2010 tribute in Rolling Stone. “There’s a direct line you can draw back from today’s metal, through Eighties bands like Iron Maiden, back to Sabbath.”

Sabbath fired Osbourne in 1979 for his legendary excesses, like showing up late for rehearsals and missing gigs. “We knew we didn’t really have a choice but to sack him because he was just so out of control. But we were all very down about the situation,” wrote bassist Terry “Geezer” Butler in his memoir, “Into the Void.”

Osbourne reemerged the next year as a solo artist with “Blizzard of Ozz” and the following year’s “Diary of a Madman,” both hard rock classics that went multiplatinum and spawned enduring favorites such as “Crazy Train,” “Goodbye to Romance,” “Flying High Again” and “You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll.” Osbourne was twice inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — once with Sabbath in 2006 and again in 2024 as a solo artist.

The original Sabbath lineup reunited for the first time in 20 years in July for what Osbourne said would be his final concert. “Let the madness begin!” he told 42,000 fans in Birmingham.

Metallica, Guns N Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Gojira, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Halestorm, Anthrax, Rival Sons and Mastodon all did sets. Tom Morello, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, Billy Corgan, Ronnie Wood, Travis Barker, Sammy Hagar and more made appearances. Actor Jason Momoa was the host for the festivities.

“Black Sabbath: we’d all be different people without them, that’s the truth,” said Pantera singer Phil Anselmo. “I know I wouldn’t be up here with a microphone in my hand without Black Sabbath.”

Outlandish exploits and a classic look

Osbourne embodied the excesses of metal. His outlandish exploits included relieving himself on the Alamo, snorting a line of ants off a sidewalk and, most memorably, biting the head off the live bat that a fan threw onstage during a 1981 concert. (He said he thought it was rubber.)

Osbourne was sued in 1987 by parents of a 19-year-old teen who died by suicide while listening to his song “Suicide Solution.” The lawsuit was dismissed. Osbourne said the song was really about the dangers of alcohol, which caused the death of his friend Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC.

Then-Cardinal John J. O’Connor of New York claimed in 1990 that Osbourne’s songs led to demonic possession and even suicide. “You are ignorant about the true meaning of my songs,” the singer wrote back. “You have also insulted the intelligence of rock fans all over the world.”

Audiences at Osbourne shows could be mooned or spit on by the singer. They would often be hectored to scream along with the song, but the Satan-invoking Osbourne would usually send the crowds home with their ears ringing and a hearty “God bless!”

He started an annual tour — Ozzfest — in 1996 after he was rejected from the lineup of what was then the top touring music festival, Lollapalooza. Ozzfest has gone on to host such bands as Slipknot, Tool, Megadeth, Rob Zombie, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park.

Osbourne’s look changed little over his life. He wore his long hair flat, heavy black eye makeup and round glasses, often wearing a cross around his neck. In 2013, he reunited with Black Sabbath for the dour, raw “13,” which reached No. 1 on the U.K. Albums Chart and peaked at No. 86 on the U.S. Billboard 200. In 2019, he had a Top 10 hit when featured on Post Malone’s “Take What You Want,” Osbourne’s first song in the Top 10 since 1989.

In 2020, he released the album “Ordinary Man,” which had as its title song a duet with Elton John. “I’ve been a bad guy, been higher than the blue sky/And the truth is I don’t wanna die an ordinary man,” he sang. In 2022, he landed his first career back-to-back No. 1 rock radio singles from his album “Patient Number 9,” which featured collaborations with Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Mike McCready, Chad Smith, Robert Trujillo and Duff McKagan. It earned four Grammy nominations, winning two. (Osbourne won five Grammys over his lifetime.)

At the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2024, Jack Black called him “greatest frontman in the history of rock ‘n’ roll” and “the Jack Nicholson of rock.” Osbourne thanked his fans, his guitarist Randy Rhoads and his longtime wife, Sharon.

The beginnings of Black Sabbath

John Michael Osbourne was raised in the gritty city of Birmingham. Kids in school nicknamed him Ozzy, short for his surname. As a boy, he loved the Four Seasons, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. The Beatles made a huge impression.

“They came from Liverpool, which was approximately 60 miles north of where I come from,” he told Billboard. “So all of a sudden it was in my grasp, but I never thought it would be as successful as it became.”

In the late 1960s, Osbourne had teamed up with Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward as the Polka Tulk Blues Band. They decided to rename the band Earth, but found to their dismay there was another band with that name. So they changed the name to the American title of the classic Italian horror movie “I Tre Volti Della Paura,” starring Boris Karloff: Black Sabbath.

Once they found their sludgy, ominous groove, the band was productive, putting out their self-titled debut and “Paranoid” in 1970, “Master of Reality” in 1971, “Vol. 4” in 1972 and “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” in 1973.

The music was all about industrial guitar riffs and disorienting changes in time signatures, along with lyrics that spoke of alienation and doom. “People think I’m insane because I am frowning all the time,” Osbourne sang in one song. “All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy/Think I’ll lose my mind if I don’t find something to pacify.”

The Guardian newspaper in 2009 said the band “introduced working-class anger, stoner sludge grooves and witchy horror-rock to flower power. Black Sabbath confronted the empty platitudes of the 1960s and, along with Altamont and Charles Manson, almost certainly helped kill off the hippy counterculture.”

After Sabbath, Osbourne had an uncanny knack for calling some of the most creative young guitarists to his side. When he went solo, he hired the brilliant innovator Rhoads, who played on two of Osbourne’s finest solo albums, “Blizzard of Ozz” and “Diary of a Madman.” Rhoads was killed in a freak plane accident in 1982; Osbourne released the live album “Tribute” in 1987 in his memory.

Osbourne then signed Jake E. Lee, who lent his talents to the platinum albums “Bark at the Moon” and “The Ultimate Sin.” Hotshot Zakk Wylde joined Osbourne’s band for “No Rest for the Wicked” and the multiplatinum “No More Tears.”

“They come along, they sprout wings, they blossom, and they fly off,” Osbourne said of his players in 1995 to The Associated Press. “But I have to move on. To get a new player now and again boosts me on.”

Courting controversy — and wholesomeness

Whomever he was playing with, Osbourne wasn’t likely to back down from controversy. He had the last laugh when the TV evangelist the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart in 1986 lambasted various rock groups and rock magazines as “the new pornography,” prompting some retailers to pull Osbourne’s album.

When Swaggart later was caught with a sex worker in 1988, Osbourne put out the song “Miracle Man” about his foe: “Miracle man got busted/miracle man got busted,” he sang. “Today I saw a Miracle Man, on TV cryin’/Such a hypocritical man, born again, dying.”

Much later, a whole new Osbourne would be revealed when “The Osbournes,” which ran on MTV from 2002-2005, showed this one-time self-proclaimed madman drinking Diet Cokes as he struggled to find the History Channel on his new satellite television or warning his kids not to smoke or drink before they embarked on a night on the town.

Later, he and his son Jack toured America on the travel show “Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour,” where the pair visited such places as Mount Rushmore and the Space Center Houston. Osbourne was honored in 2014 with the naming of a bat frog found in the Amazon that makes high-pitched, batlike calls. It was dubbed Dendropsophus ozzyi.

He also met Queen Elizabeth II during her Golden Jubilee weekend. He was standing next to singer-actor Cliff Richard. “She took one look at the two of us, said ‘Oh, so this is what they call variety, is it?’ then cracked up laughing. I honestly thought that Sharon had slipped some acid into my cornflakes that morning,” he wrote in “I Am Ozzy.”

Thelma Riley and Osbourne married in 1971; Osbourne adopted her son Elliot Kingsley, and they had two more children, Jessica and Louis. Osbourne later met Sharon, who became her own celebrity persona, when she was running her father’s Los Angeles office. Her father was Don Arden, a top concert promoter and artist manager. She went to Osbourne’s hotel in Los Angeles to collect money, which Osbourne had spent on drugs.

“She says she’ll come back in three days and I’d better have it. I’d always fancied her and I thought, ‘Ah, she’s coming back! Maybe I have a chance.’ I had pizza hanging from my hair, cigarette ashes on my shirt,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 2000. They married in 1982, had three children — Kelly, Aimee and Jack — and endured periodic separations and reconciliations.

He is survived by Sharon, and his children.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Ozzy Osbourne, classic rock and metal legend broadly known as the famed “Prince of Darkness,” has died at the age of 76.

Osbourne’s family confirmed his passing to several media outlets in the U.K. and to the Associated Press.

“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time,” a family statement said.

In 2020, he revealed he had Parkinson’s disease after suffering a fall.

Either clad in black or bare-chested, the singer was often the target of parents’ groups for his imagery and once caused an uproar for biting the head off a bat. Later, he would reveal himself to be a doddering and sweet father on the reality TV show “The Osbournes.”

Black Sabbath’s 1969 self-titled debut LP has been likened to the Big Bang of heavy metal. It came during the height of the Vietnam War and crashed the hippie party, dripping menace and foreboding. The cover of the record was of a spooky figure against a stark landscape. The music was loud, dense and angry, and marked a shift in rock ‘n’ roll.

The band’s second album, “Paranoid,” included such classic metal tunes as “War Pigs,” “Iron Man” and “Fairies Wear Boots.” The song “Paranoid” only reached No. 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 but became in many ways the band’s signature song. Both albums were voted among the top 10 greatest heavy metal albums of all time by readers of Rolling Stone magazine.

“Black Sabbath are the Beatles of heavy metal. Anybody who’s serious about metal will tell you it all comes down to Sabbath,” Dave Navarro of the band Jane’s Addiction wrote in a 2010 tribute in Rolling Stone. “There’s a direct line you can draw back from today’s metal, through Eighties bands like Iron Maiden, back to Sabbath.”

Sabbath fired Osbourne in 1979 for his legendary excesses, like showing up late for rehearsals and missing gigs. “We knew we didn’t really have a choice but to sack him because he was just so out of control. But we were all very down about the situation,” wrote bassist Terry “Geezer” Butler in his memoir, “Into the Void.”

Osbourne reemerged the next year as a solo artist with “Blizzard of Ozz” and the following year’s “Diary of a Madman,” both hard rock classics that went multi-platinum and spawned enduring favorites such as “Crazy Train,” “Goodbye to Romance,” “Flying High Again” and “You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll.” Osbourne was twice inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – once with Sabbath in 2006 and again in 2024 as a solo artist.

His death comes just two weeks after his final stage performance with the original Sabbath lineup, who reunited for the first time in 20 years in July 2025 in the U.K.

“Let the madness begin!” he told 42,000 fans.

Metallica, Guns N Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Gojira, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Halestorm, Anthrax, Rival Sons and Mastodon did sets. Tom Morello, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, Billy Corgan, Ronnie Wood, Travis Barker, Sammy Hagar, Andrew Watt, Yungblud, Korn’s Jonathan Davis, Nuno Bettencourt, Chad Smith and Vernon Reid made appearances. Actor Jason Momoa was the host for the festivities.

“Black Sabbath: we’d all be different people without them, that’s the truth,” said Pantera singer Phil Anselmo. “I know I wouldn’t be up here with a microphone in my hand without Black Sabbath.”

Osbourne embodied the excesses of metal. His outlandish exploits included relieving himself on the Alamo, snorting a line of ants off a sidewalk and, most memorably, biting the head off a live bat that a fan threw onstage during a 1981 concert. (He said he thought it was rubber.)

News 8’s Michaela Springer contributed to this report.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Air traffic controllers at a small North Dakota airport didn’t inform an Air Force bomber’s crew that a commercial airliner was flying in the same area, the military said, shedding light on the nation’s latest air safety scare.

A SkyWest pilot performed a sharp turn, startling passengers, to avoid colliding with the B-52 bomber that he said was in his flight path as he prepared to land Friday at Minot International Airport.

The bomber had been conducting a flyover at the North Dakota State Fair in Minot that was approved in consultation with the Federal Aviation Administration, the Minot International Airport air traffic control and the Minot Air Force Base’s air traffic control team, the Air Force said in a statement Monday.

As the bomber headed to the fairgrounds shortly before 8 p.m., the base’s air traffic control advised its crew to contact the Minot airport’s air traffic control.

“The B-52 crew contacted Minot International Airport tower and the tower provided instructions to continue 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) westbound after the flyover,” the Air Force said. “The tower did not advise of the inbound commercial aircraft.”

Video taken by a passenger on Delta Flight 3788, which departed from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and posted to social media captured audio of the SkyWest pilot explaining over the plane’s intercom that he made the hard bank after spotting the bomber in the flight path that Minot air traffic control had directed him to take for landing.

“Sorry about the aggressive maneuver. It caught me by surprise,” the pilot can be heard saying on the video. “This is not normal at all. I don’t know why they didn’t give us a heads up.”

The FAA, Air Force and SkyWest are investigating.

It’s just the latest flight scare in recent months. In February, a Southwest Airlines flight about to land at Chicago’s Midway Airport was forced to climb back into the sky to avoid another aircraft crossing the runway. That followed the tragic midair collision of a passenger jet and an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January that killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft. Those and other recent incidents have raised questions about the FAA’s oversight.

The FAA said Monday that a private company services the Minot air traffic control tower, and that the controllers there aren’t FAA employees. It is one of 265 airport towers nationwide that are operated by companies, but the roughly 1,400 air traffic controllers at these smaller airports meet the same qualification and training requirements as FAA controllers at larger airports, the agency said.

Some small airports like Minot’s also don’t have their own radar systems on site. In fact, the vast majority of the nation’s airports don’t even have towers, mainly because most small airports don’t have passenger air service. But regional FAA radar facilities do oversee traffic all across the country and help direct planes in and out of airports like Minot. The Minot airport typically handles between 18 and 24 flights a day.

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Beck reported from Omaha, Nebraska. Associated Press writer Josh Funk contributed from Omaha.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Murder charges have been filed against a man accused of fatally shooting another outside a south side bar minutes after he’d been kicked out for fighting.

The shooting happened around 1:35 a.m. Thursday outside of Mucky Duck Pub off East Southport Road and McFarland Boulevard.

IMPD’s Night Watch officers told News 8 when officers arrived, they found the man suffering a gunshot wound. The man, identified as Jereme Dillingham, 28, was rushed to a hospital, but died a short time later.

Detectives spoke with multiple witnesses at the scene, who eventually identified the shooter as 21-year-old Kaeden Douglas.

What detectives learned

During the investigation, court documents say police also reviewed security camera footage from the bar.

Around 10 p.m., police spotted Douglas on camera entering the bar with a female. Then at 1:30 a.m., Douglas suddenly “got up from his seat, threw a chair to the ground, and began shoving an unidentified male.”

Jereme Dillingham was seated at the same bar. Police say when the fight broke out, Dillingham jumped between the two men to try and break up the fight. Then, “after a brief exchange,” Douglas and Dillingham “shook hands and hugged.”

Dillingham was seen walking away as Douglas gets in a fight with bar staff, including a bouncer who removed him from the business. A physical fight between the pair happened outside as the bouncer guided Douglas to his Dodge Charger.

A few minutes later, Dillingham was seen crossing the parking lot and speaking with Douglas through the passenger’s side of the Charger. Douglas started to slowly drive away while Dillingham was still at the window.

A witness later told officers they heard the two men arguing, Douglas screaming and calling Dillingham the N-word.

Dillingham was then seen in the video reaching into the car window before quickly pulling back and turning toward a person standing behind him. Witnesses then reported hearing a gunshot.

Douglas speeds off through the parking lot, and Dillingham collapses. Bystanders provided medical aid until first responders arrived.

Multiple witnesses confirmed to police Douglas’ appearance and what car he drove. They described his behavior to police as “aggressive” and “obviously drunk,” frequently yelling and calling people slurs.

Douglas also threatened patrons, said the “N-word” with a “hard R” numerous times, and scared a female into running into the bar when she believed he was going to hurt her.

Police did not say if they interviewed the female who came to the bar with Douglas.

Douglas speaks with detectives

Investigators later tracked Douglas to his home on the southeast side and took him into custody without incident.

Douglas’ narrative of events frequently changed when speaking with detectives. Police say Douglas first claimed not remembering what happened at Mucky Duck, adding that he hadn’t been in a fight since the seventh grade.

This later changed to Douglas describing the events leading up to the fight, saying he remembered being hit but “he did not remember where he got hit, who hit him, or how many times he was hit.” He told police he didn’t remember anything until he got home.

Douglas’ drinking habits also evolved during the interview, ranging from being a “lightweight” to “(drinking) like a hog.” He said he believed he couldn’t remember anything at the bar because he “was either overserved, his drinks were heavy pours, he was intoxicated due to mixing ‘light and dark’ drinks, or that his drink was spiked.”

He claimed had anywhere from three to six drinks, mentioning “a beer and an unknown number of free shots.” His bar tab and witness statements later determined Douglas had three shots and ordered a fourth that he didn’t drink because he was kicked out.

When detectives asked if he was afraid for his life, Douglas said he was only afraid because he doesn’t like new places. He remained adamant that he acted in self-defense, but could not tell police what happened for him to act that way.

Douglas was arrested and booked into the Marion County jail without bond.

He was due in court for a hearing Tuesday afternoon.

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — New SAT results showed more Hoosier students meeting college-readiness benchmarks in reading, but overall scores remain low — especially in math.

More than 81,000 Indiana high school students took the test in 2024-25. Most of those were juniors — students slated to graduate in spring 2026. 

Results showed slight improvement on the SAT this year in both the evidence-based reading and writing and math sections.

In reading and writing, the share of students scoring at or above the college-ready threshold rose to 54.5%, up from 51.8% the year before and 50.5% in 2023.

A greater number of students continued to score in the “below college-ready” category for math, however. Just 25.2% of test-takers earned passing scores in 2025.

About 24.5% of Indiana students who took the SAT during the last academic year met the readiness benchmark on both subject portions, according to the Indiana Department of Education. That’s a 0.3% increase compared to last year, but still 4% down from 2023.

“We still have a large number of students in that below-college-ready group,” said Lynn Schemel, IDOE’s chief academic officer. “We want to move that … in the (right) direction … but we have more work to do.”

The new test results were released last week and discussed by the State Board of Education. Data from the latest round of ILEARN testing was also published.

State law requires IDOE to administer a national college entrance exam to high school students before graduation.

How scores work

The SAT includes math, reading and writing sections. The assessment, administered by the College Board, scores students as “At College-Ready,” “Approaching College-Ready,” or “Below College-Ready,” depending on their performance.

A student who scores “Approaching” with one more year remaining in high school is expected to be at “At College-Ready” by graduation.

Students who score at or above the benchmark have a 75% chance of earning at least a C in their first semester of credit-bearing college courses in that subject area, IDOE officials said.

Of the 81,620 students who took the reading and writing assessment in 2025, more than half met the college-ready benchmark. About 36.4% of students were approaching a passing score, while 9.2% remained below.

In math, 21.6% of students were “approaching” college-readiness, and 53% were below the readiness benchmark.

That’s a decline from 2024, when roughly 52.8% of test-takers were below college-ready levels, and from 45.2% who trailed the benchmark in 2023. 

About 25% of students posted college-ready math scores in 2024. IDOE data indicates 30.7% of students who took the SAT were college-ready in math in 2023.

“(The latest data) underscores the urgency of the work we’re doing,” Schemel said, referencing new instructional resources and educational screeners designed to improve foundational math skills. 

The state, she noted, is currently building math support systems for students in grades K–2 and 9–12 to mirror recent literacy investments made for elementary and middle school grades.

Board members weigh in

Board members acknowledged the need for additional math support, but some questioned whether the SAT is the right tool to evaluate all progress among all Indiana students, especially those not planning to attend college.

“This is a college-ready exam, and we administer it to students who aren’t going to college,” said board member B.J. Watts. “Let’s be honest — it’s not important to them. That doesn’t mean they don’t have other skills where they shine. But that’s not going to show up here, at least not yet.”

Indiana Education Secretary Katie Jenner echoed the need for continued discussion. 

“As a board, we’ve talked a lot about what skills students need in high school,” Jenner said. “Does the SAT fit that? I think that’s a conversation we’ll continue to have.”

Education officials further pointed to a wave of reforms aimed at supporting students earlier in their education, like numeracy screeners, teacher training in evidence-based instruction methods, and math intervention plans. 

All of those efforts are still ramping up, Schemel said.

“We’re trying to wrap our arms around the standards at the high school level now, too,” Hurst said. “That includes what students are getting in their courses before they even get to this SAT moment.”

Jenner added that SAT scores are likely to evolve more as Indiana rolls out new pathways to graduation. 

Under the state’s new high school diploma model — which is set to take effect for all schools by 2029 — all juniors will still be required by law to take the SAT, but scores are only used toward graduation if a student chooses that option under one of the college-bound or employment-readiness tracks, or “seals.”

“We’re maximizing the four years of high school,” she said. “Whether students pursue enrollment, enlistment or employment, our work has to prepare them for all three.”