Indiana News Weekend Roundup

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More good news on the unemployment front….Indiana asks NRA to train guardsmen…Indiana looking at autism training…..

 

 

Indiana has hit a milestone on the unemployment front

Department of Workforce Development Spokesman Joe Frank says private sector employment in Indiana for July outperformed historic peak levels of March 2000. Unemployment fell by 0.2 percent down to 4.7 percent. The state has added nearly 10,000 workers to the labor force and a total of about 76,000 since January 2013. Frank says manufacturing remains strong and Indiana is in the top five for manufacturing job growth nationally. He says the healthcare sector is also performing well. Overall, Indiana has been growing four-thousand jobs on average each month. Frank says current trending bodes well for the future.

 


 

 

Indiana enlists NRA to train Guard on firearms

 Indiana has enlisted the National Rifle Association to train National Guard members in the use of concealed handguns.

An Associated Press survey found that of the 14 states that have armed their guardsmen amid recent attacks on military installations in Tennessee, only Indiana enlisted the NRA’s help.

That’s raising concern among gun control advocates who think it’s inappropriate for a political group to train members of the military. It’s also led National Guard officials in other states to question why the civilian organization is needed.

Indiana’s guardsmen are controlled by Republican Governor Mike Pence, whose office declined to comment. A Guard spokeswoman says the NRA offers expanded training that the Guard does not provide.

Supporters of the policy say it will help save the lives of guardsmen.

 Indiana has enlisted the National Rifle Association to train National Guard members in the use of concealed handguns. An Associated Press survey found that of the 14 states that have armed their guardsmen amid recent attacks on military installations in Tennessee, only Indiana enlisted the NRA’s help. That’s raising concern among gun control advocates who think it’s inappropriate for a political group to train members of the military.

 


 

Nov. 19 change-of-plea, sentencing hearing set for Fogle

A federal judge has scheduled a November 19th change-of-plea and sentencing hearing for former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt posted the scheduling order Friday, two days after Fogle agreed to plead guilty to allegations that he paid for sex acts with girls as young as 16 and received child pornography produced by the former director of his charitable foundation.

The suburban Indianapolis man is expected to enter a formal plea to one count each of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and distribution and receipt of child pornography.

A plea agreement says prosecutors won’t seek a sentence of more than 12½ years in prison and that Fogle won’t ask for less than five.

Fogle has been released on home detention.

 

 


 

 

Indiana’s 2nd West Nile human case reported in C. Indiana

Central Indiana health officials are reporting the state’s second human case this year of West Nile virus.

The Health Department in Madison County northeast of Indianapolis reported the case Friday. The report comes three days after the Indiana State Department of Health said the first such case was reported in Huntington County, southwest of Fort Wayne.

No other details about the patients have been released.

The state health department says mosquitoes in nearly 30 counties from the Michigan state line to the Ohio River have tested positive for the virus this year.

It urges Hoosier to avoid the outdoors when mosquitoes are active from late afternoon to dawn, using insect repellent on exposed skin, and installing or repairing screens on windows and doors to keep mosquitoes out of the home.

 


 

 

Indiana is trying to expand a training program for emergency responders to help them deal with the autistic: Eric Berman reports from Network Indiana: