Leila Kheiry

Hamilton Southeastern Schools announced Oct. 16 that the district and the Hamilton Southeastern Education Association reached a tentative agreement on the 2026-27 teacher contract. “The agreement reflects several weeks of professional discussions and cooperation between both bargaining teams, following a year in which teacher salaries remained unchanged,” the announcement stated.…

A 35-year-old Westfield man faces 23 charges, most of them felonies, stemming from a monthsmonthlong fraud investigation initially involving a 16-year-old victim, but revealing numerous other victims. Damien Merriweather remains in custody at Hamilton County Jail after a judge set bail at $50,000. He has been charged with multiple counts…

Holding microphones and facing a camera crew, two news anchors sit behind a desk — one sporting a blazer and dark-rimmed eyeglasses — as they discuss the news of the day. It’s a typical newscast, except the reporters are around 4 years old and the big news story is about…

A Fishers-based Hamilton County Internet Crimes Against Children task force investigation that concluded in late September with the arrest of 11 people also led to a Greenwood man’s arrest in early October. Omar Rosaliano is charged with child solicitation, sexual misconduct with a minor and distributing child sex abuse material.…

Developers and city officials celebrated a milestone for a new neighborhood adjacent to the Nickel Plate Trail near downtown Fishers with an Oct. 22 ribbon cutting. The Nickel Row model home, one of the first three of 35 townhomes from developers Onyx+East and Meyer Najem, is complete and available for…

Following a lengthy investigation, the Fishers-based Hamilton County Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested a Noblesville man Oct. 21, who now faces 10 felony counts of possession of child sexual abuse material.

More students at Fishers and Hamilton Southeastern high schools are taking on advanced coursework, giving them a head start on college. Since 2022, Advanced Placement participation has increased 21 percent at Fishers High School and 38 percent at Hamilton Southeastern High School. During that same period, the number of students…

Renovation work is complete on Westfield’s historic “green building,” which is no longer green. The 1837 structure — the city’s oldest commercial building — now sports a new shade of gold, which matches a color found during renovation work. The interior of the two-story building has new walls, ceilings, light…

Westfield Fire Department Lt. Abby Poynter always wanted to be a firefighter, but she initially wasn’t sure about how to get into that career. She ended up in nursing — another way to help people — which she enjoyed until she got burned out. When she had her son, she…

Some residents of the Countryside neighborhood in Westfield are unhappy with their homeowners association after the HOA retained a law firm to draft covenant violation notices and then charged individual homeowners legal fees for those letters, even if the violation was rectified in a timely manner. The HOA has since…