Tag Archives: vandalism

EDITOR’S NOTE: According to their website, Schooner Creek Farms previously donated to WFHB. Schooner Creek Farms maintains their booth at the Bloomington Farmers’ Market. The organic produce vendor was at the Bloomington Farmers’ Market, this past Saturday. Area residents are circulating petitions to remove the southern Brown County vendor from both the Nashville and Bloomington Farmer’s Markets. The proprietors of …

An anti-abortion group has filed charges against an Indiana University Bloomington student. The Indiana University Student, Thomas Metcalf, spray-painted over and threw away anti-abortion signs protesters from the anti-abortion group Created Equal had set up along 10th street on IU’s campus last week. The anti-abortion protesters were wearing go-pro cameras, and have widely publicized the incident. Indiana University Communications Director …

Congress passed a bill to combat the ongoing opioid epidemic yesterday; The Indiana University Office of Parking Operations impounded over 150 electric scooters since the arrival of rental services such as Lime and Bird in Bloomington; A 600-bedroom apartment complex proposed for Bloomington’s east side continues to receive scrutiny from both the city and area residents; The City of Bloomington will soon be …

Anti-abortion protesters at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus had their signs vandalized. WFHB correspondent Annie Aguiar brings us a report about why the university must allow protesters to continue to come to campus. Anti-abortion protesters on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington had their signs, which depicted fetuses and pro-life slogans, defaced this afternoon. Indiana University is a public institution, and …

More Nazi-related vandalism was discovered over the weekend – this time in New Albany. The two red, spray-painted swastikas and several upside-down crosses, were discovered earlier today. The graffiti is on the sign to the Azalea Hills retirement community, in Floyds Knobs. The vandalism comes after swastikas and iron crosses were found spray-painted behind a Carmel synagogue late last month. …

A Catholic prep school in Indianapolis is in the national spotlight, after firing a lesbian guidance counselor; More Nazi-related vandalism was discovered over the weekend – this time in New Albany; Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is fighting the proposed expansion of early voting sites in Indianapolis; The volunteer organization Friends of Lake Monroe is working to develop a watershed …

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb is calling for a renewed push towards passing hate crime legislation in the state. Holcomb’s call comes after the weekend vandalism of a Jewish synagogue in Carmel, Indiana. The state is one of five across the country which has not ratified independent hate crimes legislation. Anti-Semitic graffiti was found at the entrance to the Carmel synagogue …

The Bloomington Police Department is dropping their investigation into vandalism at the Islamic Center of Bloomington; A northern Indiana college has won its long-running lawsuit, seeking a religious exemption from paying for employees’ birth control; Construction on Section 6 of Interstate 69 is expected to start next year; The newly-renovated Bloomington Animal Shelter opened to the public, earlier this week. …

The latest FEMA Disaster Recovery Center opens today in New Albany, Indiana; Emergency response officials say residents in all 92 Indiana counties are now able to text 911 messages during emergencies; The Islamic Center of Bloomington has asked the Bloomington Police Department to investigate two possible incidents of vandalism; Police are no longer directing traffic at the second and third street overpasses …

A West Lafayette church found threats and hate speech on banners hung outside its fence this weekend. The spray-painted banners, outside of the Tippecanoe County Universalist Church, threatened to revisit the mass shootings in Las Vegas and Orlando. They also contained frequent use of derogatory slurs against homosexuals, African-Americans, and Hispanics. The banners were found after the church joined with …