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President Donald Trump will be in Evansville tonight; Roman Catholic clergy in Indiana are facing child abuse allegations; The owners of the 18-and-over nightclub Kilroy’s Recess in Bloomington have closed down their business. FEATURE A new report by the Indiana Builders Association finds that new housing prices are increasingly pushing out first time home buyers in the state. We’ll hear from Indiana …

The Monroe County Community School Corporation’s Board of Trustees declined to put metal detectors in schools, last night. The decision comes even after MCCSC Superintendent Judi DeMuth recommended the adoption of the metal-detecting wands, during last night’s meeting. DeMuth said the wands would be used at school entrances on an ‘as-needed basis,’ and only with police present. In July, Indiana …

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department announced they will  release officers’ body camera footage, today; The Monroe County Community School Corporation is continuing a public debate over whether it should deploy metal detectors at schools in the district; Flags across the state will be at half-mast, for the rest of this week; The Town of Ellettsville is considering purchasing two properties, due to two …

Kassandra Botts talks about her volunteer work with the Shalom Community Center; The Indiana Department of Education released last year’s ISTEP+ results; The Indiana Recovery Alliance and the Shalom Community Center handed out Hepatitis A vaccinations; Hoosiers for A Common Sense Health Plan met with Indiana Attorney General Curtis; Indiana State Police announced that they will be implementing a sobriety check point in Monroe …

President Donald Trump will make a trip to Evansville, next week; Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) spoke on the floor of the US Senate today, on behalf of increasing Health and Human Services allocation on the Senate Appropriations Bill for 2019; Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson announced the state will furnish $7.5 million to enhance election security, this Fall; Business owners on Bloomington’s …

President Donald Trump will make a trip to Evansville, next week. The President is holding a rally next Thursday, to stump for Republican Senate candidate Mike Braun. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence held a rally for Braun in May, in Elkhart. Braun beat out two Indiana Congressmen for the Republican party’s Senate nomination, in a campaign that garnered national …

The Hoosier Times, a media group which owns several prominent publications in WFHB’s listening area, is cutting 17 jobs at local papers. The Herald-Times of Bloomington’s Managing Editor Bob Zaltsberg made the announcement, in today’s edition. Zaltsberg said the media group, which also owns Bedford’s Times-Mail, Martinsville’s Reporter-Times, and the Spencer Evening World, is cutting over a dozen jobs between …

This Friday marks the return of TEDx Bloomington. On hiatus since 2011, TEDx was brought to Bloomington by Jennifer Borland. She speaks with WFHB about this Friday’s TEDx Bloomington talks, at the Buskirk Chumley Theater.

In this episode of The Bicentennial Journal, Monroe County Sheriff Brad Swain tells about the “Tommy Gun” on display in his office.  It was purchased by the police during the bank robbery boom era of the 1930’s.  Sheriff Swain relays the story told to him by George Huntington, long-time Monroe County law enforcement officer, about the killing of a fleeing …

NOTE: INSIDE OUTDOORS IS MOVING TO 7AM EACH SATURDAY MORNING!!! Buddy Bill, Rich Reardin, and Don Jordan are the hosts. Bill and Rich host the program today, as Don is in Montana on his annual fishing trip. Inside Outdoors will now move to 7am starting next week on August 25. Weather in Bloomington this past week with a tornado warning, …