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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, May 4th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB News provides a rundown of the local primary results in today’s daily headlines. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have your weekly consumer-watchdog segment Better Beware hosted and produced by Richard Fish. More following today’s feature. But first, your environmental news …

Monroe County Election officials are verifying ballot tabulations in the Monroe County Council District 2 race; Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, acting on behalf of the state, is filing a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma; Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill was elected by his peers this weekend as the vice chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association; A Catholic High School guidance counselor, who …

Monroe County Election officials are verifying ballot tabulations in the Monroe County Council District 2 race. After voting closed on November 6th, an error was discovered in the program that reads the data collected from ballot scanners. The program was reading the race as under-voted. Republican board member William Ellis explained voters are meant to cast one vote in the …

Indiana was the scene of major Republican wins last night; Ballot counting is still underway in Northwest Indiana’s Porter County; Full Election returns are in for Monroe County – Democrats have unsurprisingly largely swept races; The Bloomington Plan Commission is voicing initial support for a large, mixed use development at Pete Ellis Drive and Longview; FEATURE Polling sites around Monroe County ran out …

Monroe County Elections Supervisor Karen Wheeler is busy. Wheeler said over 1000 people are walking into Monroe County Elections Central in downtown Bloomington every day, to cast their ballot for the 2018 midterm election. With just two weeks left before the election, Wheeler said the number of early voters she’s seeing is on par with 2016’s presidential election. That’s unprecedented, …

A Facebook page called ‘Monroe County Elections’ is causing concern among Monroe County Election Board members. Republican representative William Ellis said the page could have been assumed to be official when it wasn’t. The page has since been deleted, but its creator is still in question. Ellis and Democratic Representative Carolyn VandeWiele were concerned the page might have been created …

A Japanese car parts supplier is planning to expand its manufacturing operations in Columbus, Indiana; A Facebook page called Monroe County Elections is causing concern among Monroe County Election Board members; A 30-year old man has reportedly made a plea-deal with Bloomington Police, after around 300 Indiana University students landed in Las Vegas with no place to stay; The Indiana Department of Natural …

Today is the first day of early voting in Indiana. Polls opened at 8 a.m. this morning in Monroe County and will stay open until 6 p.m. Monroe County Elections Supervisor Karen Wheeler said today’s first day of early voting has seen a higher than usual number of voters. Yesterday marked the end of voter registration in several states, including …

Monroe County is in need of volunteer poll workers for the November 8th election. At an Election Board meeting last week, Election Supervisor, Laura Dahncke; and Board Chair, Carolyn VandeWiele, reviewed the number of poll workers needed, and how volunteers can sign up. Dahncke went into specifics as far as what was needed: “As of yesterday, our Democratic recruiter had …