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A Kokomo woman whom officials say tortured and mutilated cats and dogs while filming the actions on social media was arrested Tuesday afternoon during a raid of her residence just outside Kokomo. Local and federal authorities spent several hours searching the home near the intersection of Malfalfa and Zartman roads on Tuesday, according to a media release from the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Indiana. Now, one of the home’s occupants, Krystal Cherika Scott, 19, faces felony charges related to animal cruelty. According to Chris Bavender, of the FBI’s Indianapolis office, Scott is in federal custody....

Tackled, tased, punched, kneed and tased some more for holding a wooden cross in his right hand and a bible nestled under his left arm. The man was reportedly previously rebuking the devil music being played on the stage. The disturbing police body cam footage from July 4th, 2019 in Kokomo Indiana, of Jonatan Cantu, an Indiana man- who was holding a wooden cross in a park surfaces on the Colorado Donkey Watch YouTube channel. Below is an illustrated video which shows a man peacefully holding a wooden cross in front of a stage where music was being played. When...

TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR KOKOMO... ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY... AT 324 PM EDT...A CONFIRMED LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER KOKOMO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR KOKOMO. THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW! HAZARD...DEADLY TORNADO. SOURCE...LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFIRMED TORNADO. IMPACT...YOU ARE IN A LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION. FLYING DEBRIS MAY BE DEADLY TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DESTROYED. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO HOMES... BUSINESSES...AND VEHICLES IS LIKELY AND COMPLETE DESTRUCTION IS POSSIBLE. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GREENTOWN AROUND 340 PM EDT.

A Howard County sheriff's deputy and a suspect died following an overnight shooting in Russiaville. Deputy Carl Koontz and Sgt. Jordan Buckley were shot while trying to serve arrest and search warrants around 12:30 a.m. Sunday in connection with a drug case, according to Howard County Sheriff Steven Rogers. The Howard County Sheriff's Department, Kokomo police and Russiaville Town Marshal were involved in the case. Deputies arrived at the residence in the 300 block of Chandler Street and tried to make contact with the suspect. No one responded when they announced themselves at the residence; when they entered, gunfire ensued....

Here in Indiana, near Grissom ARB, we just felt what we think was an earthquake. Can anyone confirm?

CARBON, Texas - Weary fire crews kept up their fight Monday to contain major grass fires across Texas that had burned dozens of homes and apparently destroyed a couple of tiny towns. Other fires across the drought-stricken region had charred thousands of acres in Oklahoma and New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate. Officials warned that the dry, windy weather and extreme fire danger would continue. "We don't know where we will be today," Oklahoma City Fire Department Maj. Brian Stanaland said Monday morning. "At this point, we consider the whole city a target for grass fires." Computer models...

MARYSVILLE-- For more than a month, workers at a small auto supply plant outside Port Huron have fought bitterly to keep the United Auto Workers from organizing their shop. The blue-collar denizens at Schefenacker Vision Systems USA occasionally picket outside the factory -- carrying homemade signs with slogans like "UAW Kills Jobs" and "Proud to be union free." Union resistance efforts are nothing out of the ordinary in Georgetown, Ky., Canton, Miss., or any other Southern town where foreign-owned auto plants are popping up. But such passionate opposition from Michigan factory workers, many of whom grew up in hard-core UAW...

AL ASAD, Iraq (Oct. 24, 2005) -- The current operational tempo of the Global War on Terrorism means many Marines are deploying to combat zones on a yearly basis. Back-to-back combat tours can cause headaches for Marines and heartaches for their families, but for Sgt. C. Alexander Wolf, it’s just another day at the office. Wolf, the signals intelligence chief for 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), is on his fourth deployment to the Middle East, dating back to 2003. The Kokomo, Ind., native, works for the Wing’s intelligence division, whose duties range from intercepting and analyzing electronic communications signals to...

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