EDUCATION

School board candidate used misleading campaign material

Indianapolis Public Schools board candidate Kenneth Allen used language in campaign material and other places that suggests he is the leader of a foundation that the state actually dissolved 10 years ago. Read more >>

Incident with district police officer left Black teacher ‘stressed and anxious’

A school police officer in Franklin Township accused a Black teacher of lying about being a faculty member to get into a soccer game in 2019 and put the teacher in handcuffs when he tried to walk away. Read more >>

SPORTS

Gonzaga falls short of coveted perfect season

The Gonzaga Bulldogs played 1,245 minutes of perfect basketball this season. That’s 31 games and one overtime period. No losses.

Standing between the Bulldogs and that coveted perfect season were the Baylor Bears, who decidedly outplayed Gonzaga in the last 40 minutes of this basketball season to win a national championship April 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium. Read more >>

Eric Hunter Jr., now part of Final Four hopeful Purdue, still revered at Tindley

Tindley boys basketball head coach Omar Dillard once texted Eric Hunter Jr. a long message about how Hunter wasn’t playing up to his ability during his freshman season at Purdue. Dillard may have dug just a bit too deep when he asked if they had raised the rim to 11 feet. Read more >>

POLITICS

‘This will continue to linger’: What if Black legislators, clergy don’t get help they’re looking for in local Democratic Party fight?

A group of local Black legislators and clergy have been vocal about wanting the Marion County Democratic Party chair to resign, but they’re not finding top-level Democrats who are willing to take up their cause. Read more >>

Can a commission lead redistricting in Indianapolis? Depends who you ask

The scene at the City-County Building a little more than four years ago resembled something closer to a football game than a typical council meeting. It was November 2017, and a boisterous crowd was there to show its support for Proposition 285, a special resolution encouraging the Indiana General Assembly to adopt “comprehensive redistricting reform.” Read more >>

PUBLIC SAFETY

Mourners remember Herman Whitfield III at vigil, continue calls for new crisis response team

The emotions had been boiling up inside of Lena Harvey for a few days by the time she attended a vigil for Herman Whitfield III, the man who died in police custody April 25 during an apparent mental health crisis. Read more >>