WINTER STORM WATCH for entire WIMS listening audience area
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO…NORTHERN INDIANA…SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AND THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHEASTERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE…TODAY AND TONIGHT A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR FAR SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN AND A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO STARTING TONIGHT FOR HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A WINTER STORM Read more…
LaPorte Police Department’s Wanted Person of the Week
LaPorte Police Department’s Wanted Person of the Week is 36 year old Maurice Galvin. Galvin is wanted on a warrant out of LaPorte Circuit Court for charges of felony auto theft, intimidation and residential entry and misdemeanor battery. Maurice Galvin is African-American, 5’11″, 190 pounds, black hair and brown eyes and tattoos on his chest. If anyone has information on the whereabouts of Galvin, call the LaPorte Police at 219-362-9446.
Man in white van tries to lure Portage 5th grader
A Portage Myers Elementary School fifth grade student told police that he was walking to school Thursday morning when someone in a white van tried to lure him into it. The student ran until he reached the school and reported the incident. The van was white with dark tinted windows. The student said that he was unable to see the driver because the window only went down halfway. Extra police Read more…
Pelath praises the end of Just IN
House Democratic Leader Scott Pelath applauded Governor Mike Pence for ending the proposed, state-sponsored news service, Just IN. Following session on Thursday, Pelath stated the House Democrats would have continued to offer amendments to defund the news service had the governor not ended Just IN. A reporter asked Leader Pelath what his reaction was at the national ridicule of Gov. Pence’s news service plan. Pelath said he didn’t take partisan Read more…
Janus appointed interim City of Michigan City Controller
Mayor Ron Meer announced that Mr. Steve Janus was appointed interim City of Michigan City Controller on Monday. Mr. Janus is a Certified Public Accountant and also serves as President of the Michigan City Board of Public Works and Safety. Mr. Janus will remain in the position of interim City Controller while the City of Michigan City administration conducts its search for a permanent replacement for this position.
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Super Bowl 2015: Watch All the Commercials From This Year
NFL Media(PHOENIX) — Just in time for the Super Bowl, many advertisers have already released their commercials online, while also attracting millions of views. The average 30-second Super Bowl commercial can cost as much as $4.5 million. And to some advertisers, it’s worth getting their brand in front of more than 112 million viewers, which is the number that watched last year’s game. Some companies like Doritos, Pepsi and newcomer Read more…
Top ISIS Chemical Weapons Expert Killed in Coalition Airstrike
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Central Command said on Friday that a coalition airstrike near Mosul, Iraq last Saturday killed a top chemical weapons engineer for ISIS. Centcom said Abu Malik was killed in an airstrike on Jan. 24 near Mosul. Malik used to work at the chemical weapons facility that Saddam Hussein had at Muthanna, Iraq before joining Al Qaeda in Iraq in 2006, and then later joining ISIS. Malik Read more…
Super Bowl 2015: Five Ways Politics are Part of the Big Game
NFL Media(WASHINGTON) — The Super Bowl might be a day of football, commercial-watching, chowing down on chicken wings and guzzling beer, but politics can always sneak in. The NFL has come face-to-face with a number of hot-button issues in the past year, most recently the “Deflate-gate” scandal that likely won’t go away until after the big game. Here are a few others: Domestic Violence The video of Baltimore Raven Ray Read more…
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson On ‘Red Room’ in ‘Fifty Shades’
T-minus two weeks until the world will be introduced to the much buzzed-about “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie on Feb. 13.
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