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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 6th, 2025.
In today’s newscast, Vice President JD Vance is slated to travel to Indianapolis to meet with Indiana Governor Mike Braun tomorrow to discuss redistricting. WFHB Correspondent Ella Cummings has more in the bottom half of the show.
Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB News Correspondent Max Schneider reports on Camp Atterbury to be turned into a detention center for undocumented immigrants.
Feature Reports:
In today’s feature report, WFHB News Correspondent Max Schneider provides a rundown on campus and local news over the summer. Schneider reports on Camp Atterbury to be turned into a detention center for undocumented immigrants. He also reports on a coalition that urges Monroe County Council to fund social services instead of a new jail. Schneider also dives into a speech from Mayor Kerry Thomson regarding homelessness in the community. All that and more coming up next on the WFHB Local News.
Tomorrow, Vice President J.D. Vance is slated to travel to Indianapolis to meet with Indiana Governor Mike Braun. Vance plans to speak with Braun about the Trump administration’s push to redistrict U.S. congressional maps to favor the GOP. State Lawmaker Matt Pierce, representing Indiana’s 61st district, spoke with WFHB Correspondent Ella Cummings about what this means for Indiana. That interview coming up next on the WFHB Local News.
Up next, “It’s Getting Worse” on Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment on WFHB. We turn to host and producer Richard Fish for more.
Credits:
You’ve been listening to the WFHB Local News,
Our features were produced by Max Schneider and Ella Cummings.
Better Beware is produced by Richard Fish.
Our theme music is provided by Mark Bingham and the Social Climbers.
Engineer and Executive producer is Kade Young.
