KOKOMO Three people were injured in Kokomo during an early morning shooting Sunday. Kokomo Police Department officers responded to reports of a shooting near Locke and Madison Streets at 4:30 a.m. Upon arrival, officers located a 42-year-old man who had been shot. He was transported to a local hospital. According to police, two additional victims, a 32-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man, arrived at different hospitals with gunshot injuries from the same incident. Their injuries were non-life threatening. Kokomo Police Department detectives obtained a search warrant for a house in the 700 blo ..read more

INDIANAPOLIS Gun violence is continuing to impact teens throughout Indianapolis. In the month of Nov., at least five of the eight homicides have been children under the age of 18. What did these kids do to you to make you that mad? Derico Young said. IMPD says Youngs daughter, 14-year-old Kaleiah Dean, was shot and killed Thursday night on the east side of Indianapolis. They said my daughter was in the car. She was thrown out and shot. I talked to her five minutes before it even happened, Kaleiahs mother said. Kaleiahs mother says she feels miserable and empty. I wish it was me instead, Kalei ..read more

KOKOMO Stellantis announced 700 employees will be temporarily laid off at the Kokomo Transmission and Casting Plants, effective Friday. According to Stellantis, the layoffs are a consequence of the strike action at the Toledo Assembly Complex. "These plants have reached maximum inventory levels of the parts or components they supply for the Jeep Wrangler or Jeep Gladiator," the company said in a statement. The Kokomo Casting Plant and Transmission Plant employ about 3,000 workers combined. An employee of the casting plant, who refused to let WRTV 6 use his name, said he and his co-workers were ..read more

KOKOMO -- Talks of a strike are heating up in the auto industry, as a major one is expected to start on Thursday. Three separate unions are currently negotiating with their respective employers in Kokomo. If a strike does happen, economist say it will likely have an impact on the economy. "UAW will be paying them 500 dollars a week in strike pay but that hails in comparison to their usual weekly pay which is going to be anywhere from 1,200-2,000 a week, Carol Rogers the director of the Indiana Business Center at Indiana University said. Rogers says the initial impact will be on the local commu ..read more

KOKOMO A new program in Howard County aims to keep children and other vulnerable people safe. Parents or guardians whose children or elders with autism or Alzheimer's can now fill out an emergency contact form with Kokomo Police Department. The new program was started after KPD says they recently responded to a number of incidents involving children who are autistic running away from their caregivers. About a month ago, we had two or three calls in about a seven to 10 day period where children with autism had wandered away from their homes," Captain Purtee told WRTV. "Our officers get called e ..read more

KOKOMO A Borg Warner facility in Kokomo has plans to close in 2024 and more than 80 employees will feel the impact soon. The Borg-Warner facility in Kokomo, located at 1501 E. 200 North, will close in two phases, according to the company. The first phase of the plant closing will take place in October with 84 employees being impacted. The second phase will take place in mid-2024, but a date has yet to be determined for that, according to the company. This closure is not planned to affect the Kokomo Technical Center in Kokomo. Worldwide, Borg-Warner employs about 38,000 people ..read more

KOKOMO A baby has been surrendered at a Safe Haven Baby Box in Kokomo. This is the fifth baby to be surrendered this year in Indiana and the 12th in the country. According to Kokomo Fire Chief Chris Frazier, a baby girl was surrendered on Monday into the Safe Haven Baby Box at Kokomo Fire Station #1. "The Mother lovingly made the decision to make sure her daughter was safe and given excellent medical care by the Kokomo Firefighters and St Vincent/Ascension Paramedics," Frazier said. "Although these are hard choices to make, we applaud the mother for giving her daughter the chance at life throu ..read more

KOKOMO The Kokomo Police Department has had success in recruiting more officers. At the beginning of 2020 the Kokomo Police Department had 76 sworn police officers by the end of July they will have 95. "We started to see a direct correlation in the percentage increase in officers on the street and the percentage that crime decreased," Captain Scott Purtee with the Kokomo Police Department said. According to data from the FBI violent crime has decreased by just over 30 percent in Kokomo since 2020 and property crime has decreased by 20 percent. We believe this increase in hiring has been positi ..read more

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