MUNCIE — Muncie is the latest central Indiana city to have to clean up from severe weather.

CINCINNATI — Streets practically turned into rivers across several parts of the Tri-State when flash floods hit Sunday, Aug. 28.

ONTARIO, CANADA — One Canadian plumber needed to get the word out about his new business, The Sault’s Plumber, so he came up with a clever plan.

ELKHART — Multiple Elkhart stores were blocked Thursday afternoon as police served a warrant. It happened outside a home on the 2000 block of Kulp Avenue near the Big R on S. Main Street. According to the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department, police went to the home at the request of the Warsaw Police Department. Jeremy …read more.

WALKERTON — An update from police in Plymouth. They’ve arrested a suspected sexual predator.

SOUTH BEND — It’s not just city and county employees helping the flood cleanup process in Michiana. An unlikely group has joined the cause — inmates from Westville Correctional Facility.

HOWARD COUNTY — The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF3 tornado touched down in Kokomo Wednesday afternoon, with winds up to 165 mph.

FREMONT — A grand jury indicted Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer on dozens of felonies Tuesday, Aug. 23, for allegedly stealing public funds, tampering with public records and illegally obtaining prescription opiates.

FORT WAYNE — Hours of work and emotion shattered. Terry Ratliff‘s bench along the river greenway is now in pieces. “It took me about two weeks of nonstop six hours a day,” he said.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Zoo has two new additions.

BLOOMINGTON — A brand new synthetic drug is being blamed for more than 50 deaths in just a couple of months, including two here in Indiana.

MARSHALL COUNTY — The Walkerton Police Department is warning the public of a possible sexual predator in the area

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis resident says he found someone’s wedding ring at the Indiana State Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 17th, 2016.

AVON — A woman killed when her bicycle and a semi truck collided in Greenfield this summer left behind a 15-year-old son.

FORD COUNTY, KAN. — Firefighters are used to calls about a kitten stuck up in a tree, but how about a kitten stuck in a toilet?

SOUTH BEND — A young dog found wandering as a stray in South Bend two weeks ago with severe burns has died. A veterinary clinic caring for the animal announced the terrier mix’s death Monday morning.

GARY — Deputy Chief Dan Murchek of the Lake County Sheriff’s Department has rescued potential victims from fires before, but Saturday was the first time he ever did it from a burning car.

INDIANAPOLIS — With summer days driftin’ away, a few good troopers decided to mark the last days of the Indiana State Fair with their rendition of “Summer Nights” from the hit movie “Grease.”

LOS ANGELES — The shag carpets and the orange countertops are long gone, but the iconic California house made famous on the hit 1970s sitcom, “The Brady Bunch” remains – and was the target of a recent break-in, police confirm to PEOPLE.

WARSAW — A Warsaw woman was arrested Sunday, Aug. 14, at a Westville Correctional Facility, as an officer found contraband on her person. Sarah Kindig, of Warsaw, planned to visit inmate Tony Booth Sunday at the Westville Correctional Facility. During a routine visitor search, the shakedown officer felt something suspicious on her person. Following questioning …read more.

SOUTH BEND — Reports of potential skin irritations has prompted McDonald’s to stop distributing kid-friendly fitness trackers in their Happy Meals across the United States and Canada.

FORT WAYNE — The West Nile Virus is back in Allen County. Allen County Health Department officials reported they’ve found three positive samples in mosquitoes this Augus

NEW YORK — The cost of saving your child’s life has gotten a lot more expensive. Parents getting ready for back-to-school season have another item to toss in the basket along with Trapper Keepers and boxes of pencils — and they’re facing sticker shock at the latest price increase. Doctors and patients say the Mylan …read more.

By Hendrix Magley BALL STATE AT THE GAMES Even when he was just a quiet, reserved outside attacker for the men’s volleyball team at Ball State University in the early 1990s, a future in coaching was always a possibility for Paul Baxter. “I always kind of liked it because I like how things come together,” …read more.

MARTIN COUNTY, FLA. — Authorities in Florida still have no motive for a double homicide with a grisly twist.

STANFORD, KY. — The Bible was printed long before many current translations of the Bible were made.

SOUTH BEND — The Potawatomi Zoo staff is working hard to clean up flood damage there right now.

By Robby General BALL STATE AT THE GAMES Kelly Day woke up the morning of her 29th birthday to find a text from her friend Rafael, a Brazilian native whom she met four years before at a bus stop in Australia: “Hey happy birthday! Are you coming to Rio for the Olympics? You should come …read more.

BEAVER CREEK, COLO. — A photo taken by a firefighter battling the Beaver Creek Fire near the Colorado-Wyoming border is getting quite the attention online.

INDIANAPOLIS — A family moving from Arizona to Ohio was involved in a fiery wreck on I-70 in Indianapolis Sunday morning.

LANCASTER, OHIO — A Wal-Mart shopper in Ohio captured a bizarre parking lot attack on video over the weekend.

By Madeline M.H. Grosh BALL STATE AT THE GAMES Elizabeth Smith walks out of the locker room and hears the crowd’s cheers echoing through the natatorium. She glances at the block above her lane and takes in a deep breath. After checking her goal time, she puts her earbuds away and begins stretching, her eyes …read more.

FORT WAYNE — An arrest has been made in a shooting at the Texas Roadhouse restaurant on Washington Center Road late Sunday that left one person dead and another critically hurt.

SOUTH BEND — An IU South Bend professor and his colleagues have recently had research published in the prestigious Science journal showing how sharks in Greenland are at least 300 years old, making them the longest-lived vertebras on earth. Professor Peter Bushnell has been part of a project studying Greenland sharks since 2011. According to his …read more.

HOUSTON — A man in the Houston area got quite the shock when he opened his garage door Thursday evening, Aug. 11.

FORT WAYNE — A north-side Asian restaurant has been indefinitely closed by police as part of an investigation involving multiple search warrants.

LACKAWANNA COUNTY, PA. — It was bulls gone wild in Lackawanna County, Pa. Thursday morning, Aug. 11, after a pair of bulls crashed a family’s basement.

GOSHEN — Plans for a new upscale apartment complex at the former Goshen Inn property on the city’s south side were made official Tuesday following a meeting of the Goshen Redevelopment Commission.

KILLINGLY, CONN. — A Connecticut couple is recovering from injuries they suffered in a beaver attack.

GREENE COUNTY, TENN. — Three girls were injured, one seriously, when they fell from a Ferris wheel at a county fair in Tennessee.

FORT WAYNE — FBI agents and local police raided five properties Tuesday morning, Aug. 9, in a wide-spread take-down of an alleged drug distribution outfit.

PLYMOUTH —Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Deputy Commissioner Rick Powers of the LaPorte District joined Marshall County Commissioner Kevin Overmyer, Plymouth Mayor Mark Senter, President of Plymouth Industrial Development Corporation (PIDCO) Mike Miley along with local leaders for a groundbreaking on the new INDOT Plymouth Sub District highway maintenance facility.

AMHERST, N.Y. — A possible underground meth lab was discovered in Amherst Monday afternoon. Amherst Police and NYS Police investigated in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart on Sheridan Dr.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Olympic Aquatics Stadium is the Lilly pad.

MADISONVILLE, KY. — Police in Kentucky are searching for suspects in an attempted arson gone wrong.

NEW YORK — Meet Karen Walsh, a 40-year-old Broadway actress and mother of two, who is currently going through treatment for Stage IV colon cancer. Walsh has been taking with internet by storm with her chemo sessions that she turns into awesome cosplay photo shoots. The idea came when her friend Sam Pinkleton, a Broadway …read more.

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — You never know where you’ll find your next best friend. For 41-year-old Dion Leonard, it was on a hot, desolate desert in China.

MISHAWAKA — Angela Eberhart started a “Save the Geese” page on Facebook thinking that it would just be “me and a couple of friends.”

NEW YORK — Botanists across the US are trying to figure out why so many titan arums – better known as corpse flowers – are blooming simultaneously around the country this year.

KNOXVILLE, TENN. — For most of his life, Hero was just a stray on the street.

COLUMBUS — For the second time in three years, an aspiring police officer and local student raised enough money for police to get a new K-9 officer.

NEW ZEALAND — It might be time to put an end to the cliché that dogs don’t like mailmen.

LAKETOWN TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Allegan County authorities are investigating a workplace accident that killed an Alto man who was just days away from welcoming his first child.

CULVER CITY, CALIF. — Superstition, according to most people, says black cats are unlucky. But Jordan is not most people.

VERO BEACH, FLA. — A kitten’s curiosity almost cost him one of his nine lives when he managed to crawl inside a Vero Beach family’s car. On Monday, Aug. 1, Denise Wilford-Neal adopted the cat and moments later the kitten crawled up inside the dash console, crying and would not come out. They tried to …read more.

CELORON, N.Y. — A less frightening likeness of comedic actress Lucille Ball is headed to her hometown of Celoron, New York, to replace the life-size bronze statue popularly known as “Scary Lucy.”

NOBLE COUNTY — A 13-year-old Fort Wayne boy caught a spotted gar at Big Lake in Noble County on July 28 that weighed six pounds, setting a new state record.

INDIANAPOLIS — Much like a teenager, Apple is letting us know how it feels with an emoji.

ROWLETT, TEXAS — It was tea time this month for one toddler and the police officer who saved her life last year.

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — It’s not every day that a garbage truck with your very own name on it pulls up to your elementary school to welcome you aboard. But Tuesday was the day that a six-year-old California boy’s dream of becoming a garbageman came to life.

GOSHEN — Wednesday was Tobacco Free Day at the Elkhart County 4-H Fair, a time for highlighting the fair’s general non-smoking policy while also thanking the fair’s smoking patrons for acknowledging and adhering to that policy.

BLOOMFIELD, CONN. — Lynette Grande planned to take a swim in her pool Saturday afternoon, until she saw that a large black bear had beaten her to it.

AUSTRALIA — A patient broke down in front of Mark Udovitch and her tears changed his life forever.

BLOOMINGTON — If houseplants, like houseguests, start to stink after three days, then an extremely rare plant that hasn’t bloomed in nine years at IU’s Jordan Hall Greenhouse is due to create a stench for the ages.

DETROIT, MICH. — A motorcyclist was arrested Tuesday after bragging on social media about outrunning police in a high speed chase.

RHODE ISLAND — Recess — it’s not just a good idea for kids, it’s the law.

NOTRE DAME — A $5 million donation for Notre Dame. The Ricci family from Willoughby, Ohio, made the donation.

SOUTH BEND — Getting from one place to another may become a little easier in South Bend. The city announced today they are going to start a Bike Share System.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — A new candidate has entered the presidential race who is sure to win the vote of children of all ages.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Meijer Inc., a grocery retailer, is recalling several varieties of fresh deli salads and sandwiches because of potential contamination with Salmonella.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — A photo taken last Thursday of a waiter feeding a customer’s sick child at an Arkansas Olive Garden has gone viral.

FORT WAYNE — There are houses. Then there are homes with brains.

FULTON COUNTY – The Indiana Department of Transportation announces that S.R. 14 in Fulton County is scheduled to be resurfaced Monday, Aug. 1, weather permitting.

WEST SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — In a summer that has left many adults discouraged about the world, a 10-year-old girl in California is trying to spread kindness, one bracelet at a time.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. — General Mills widened its recall of potentially contaminated flour Monday, and health officials said 46 people have been made sick so far by raw flour.

ABU DHABI — More than a year after it first took to the skies, a solar-powered plane has completed an epic around-the-world journey without burning a single drop of fuel.

FORT MYERS, FLA. — A shooting outside a Fort Myers, Fla., nightclub that was hosting an event for teens left two people dead and up to 16 others injured, police said.

BEIJING, CHINA — A tourist was killed and another injured after they were mauled by tigers while on a safari tour at a wildlife park in Beijing over the weekend.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY — The news of heat-related deaths of 14 dogs added sadness to a dog show Sunday at the St. Joseph County 4-H Fairgrounds.

SOUTH BEND — Climbing trees is now a marketable skill in South Bend, where there’s a golden opportunity to get a career as an “aerial guide” off the ground.

HALF MOON BAY, CALIF. — Who knew whales loved flute music?

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND — British archaeologists working on the Must Farm project in England’s Cambridgeshire Fens can hardly restrain themselves.

SOUTH BEND — If you’ve ever had to stay at the hospital, you know how hard that can be. Being sick gets even harder when you’re a kid. Construction workers at Memorial Children’s Hospital are trying to make hospital stays for those kids a little easier with a character you’ve probably seen before.

DILLSBURG, PA. — An 11-year-old girl turned down birthday gifts this year to help raise money for the recovery of a puppy in poor condition.

NEWPORT, VA. — This story oughtta deliver some smiles.

BUENOS AIRES — Book lovers, consider your next vacation planned.

ELKHART COUNTY — A horrifying case of alleged child abuse by a babysitter is being investigated in Elkhart County.

HUNTINGTON – Kris Geyer often walks along Clear Creek admiring the sights and sounds of nature. But what he found this time was definitely a surprise.

HOLLYWOOD — Some people say that you shouldn’t meet your heroes because they might disappoint you.

FAIRFAX, VA. — “We did have a joke that night which was our cake.”

WASHINGTON — The Altus, OK-based Bar-S Foods Company, late Tuesday, July 19, recalled approximately 372,684 pounds of chicken and pork hot dog and corn dog products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

JOCASSE VALLEY, S.C. — Lake Jocassee in South Carolina’s beautiful Upstate, is a recreational lover’s dream.

BURBANK, CALIF. — Garry Marshall, the legendary writer and director who created the wildly popular television programs “Happy Days,” “The Odd Couple,” “Laverne & Shirley” and “Mork & Mindy” has died at the age of 81.

SOUTH BEND — When you think of the word instrument, what comes to mind? Probably guitar or drums, right? What about the tin whistle?

NEW JERSEY — Bands take requests all the time during live shows. But when you’re a band the size of Coldplay, you can turn that idea up a few notches — which is what singer Chris Martin and his fellow musicians did at Sunday night’s show in New Jersey, when they brought on Michael J. Fox to play songs featured in 1985’s “Back to the Future”!

FORT WAYNE — A crosswalk on Fort Wayne’s near-south side has a rather melodic look now. A crosswalk at West Packard and Fairfield avenues was painted as piano keys.

FORT WAYNE — A westbound lane of U.S. 30 is closed east of Columbia City due to a two-vehicle crash.

NEW YORK — A close encounter with a black bear was caught on camera.

GREENVILLE, N.C. — The long debate of whether to make your bed in the morning may be put to rest.

PULASKI COUNTY — Pulaski County emergency management officials responded to a diesel spill that has caused closures along the Tippecanoe River.