The Knox City Water Department will be flushing fire hydrants this week beginning today through Friday.
According to Water Superintendent Todd Gardner, there are three benefits to flushing fire hydrants. The action exercises the hydrants to keep them in good functioning order and to ensure fittings are working properly. Iron and other deposits are flushed out of lines that may build up over time and stagnant water is removing from areas that may not have a high volume of use.
WKVI staff members will be manning Pizza Hut today from 4 to 8 p.m. for Celebrity Night, with every tip made going towards Pizza Hut’s Charity for World Hunger. On-air personnel and other staff will be waiting tables, manning the drive-thru and doing our best to earn tips to support this worthy cause.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work on a pit crew in any of the NASCAR traveling series? There are pit crew schools available to teach you the skills you need to be a part of a championship team.
The XCalibur Pit School in Mooresville, North Carolina is one such place and co-owner Colin Fambrough said they teach you all the techniques you need to know.
All Bureau of Motor Vehicles branches will be closed Saturday, Nov. 9 through Monday, Nov. 11 in observance of the Veterans Day holiday.
All license branches will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, Nov. 12 except for the Demotte, Knox, Monticello and 13 other branches around the state. Those branches will resume normal operations on Wednesday, Nov. 13.
The Pulaski County Historical Society is inviting you to share your memories of when President John F. Kennedy was shot.
The 50th anniversary of the assassination is Nov. 22 and your memories will be shared on the Historical Society’s Facebook page throughout this month.
When the green flag dropped Sunday afternoon at Texas Motor Speedway, Jimmie Johnson was fearless when the throttle went wide-open and he didn’t look back. He won the 334-lap AAA Texas 500 and kept his lead in the championship standings in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. This was his sixth win in the 2013 season.
Carl Edwards led the field to green and a quick caution occurred on lap 16 for debris. It wasn’t long after this caution that Jimmie Johnson found clean air. Edwards, who was on the pole for the race, had to drive his car to the garage due to a broken valve spring in the engine at the midway point of the race.
When Brad Keselowski talked to reporters before the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Texas Motor Speedway, he said he wanted a cowboy hat. Now he has one after he emerged as the winner in the 200-lap O’Reilley Auto Parts Challenge at TMS.
The Penske Racing Discount Tire Ford was strong throughout the race, but when the first caution came out on lap 70 and yellow flag pit stops occurred Keselowski fell back and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin took over the lead.
A 12-year prison sentence was handed to a Plymouth man in Marshall County Superior Court 1 on Thursday afternoon.
Raymond VanBlaricom, 27, admitted in open court that he manufactured and possessed methamphetamine on May 19 at a home in Bremen. That night, a homeowner told Bremen Police that two people came to her home with drugs and then began manufacturing methamphetamine. She ordered the pair to leave the home and refused. When police arrived at the scene, they found VanBlaricom and another suspect in the bathroom in the residence with an active one pot methamphetamine lab.
A railroad crossing in Starke County will be closed for two weeks to allow Norfolk Southern to perform some minor crossing repairs. According to Railroad Coordinator Sandy Parisian, Norfolk Southern will be closing the crossing on County Road 1000 East, between county roads 225 North and 250 North, from Nov. 4 through Nov. 18.
There has been no official detour announced.
The Henry F. Schricker Library in Knox will be closed Monday through Wednesday, Nov. 4–6, to allow workers to move into the newly created Children’s and Young Adult areas. Library Director Sheila Urwiler explained that all other locations of the library system will remain open Monday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the Hamlet branch will be open Tuesday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The San Pierre branch will be open Tuesday as well from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to assist patrons.
The Internal Revenue Service has released a warning for consumers regarding a sophisticated phone scam that targets taxpayers, including recent immigrants, throughout the country. Victims are told they owe money to the IRS and it must be paid promptly through a pre-loaded debit card or wire transfer. If the victim refuses to cooperate, they are then threatened with arrest, deportation or suspension of a business or driver’s license. In many cases, the caller becomes hostile and insulting.
The Indiana National Guard will honor seven fallen soldiers, including Spc. Robert Tauteris from Hamlet and Brian Leonhardt of Merrillville.
Major General R. Martin Umbarger will help conduct the ceremony where seven personalized shadow boxes will be dedicated to the memory of the sacrifices of these Indiana Guardsmen who served in the 113th Engineer Battalion.
The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office Mounted Posse Unit will be conducting training this weekend and you are invited to watch the training.
The training will be today and tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT at the LaPorte County Fairgrounds. These sessions will focus on short classroom session and practical horsemanship skills and tactics the remainder of each day.
It’s nearing that time again; the trees at Norwayne Field will soon be decorated for Christmas, and a deadline of Nov. 8 has been set for those who decorated a tree last year and would like to decorate the same tree again this holiday season. Park board member Kay Reimbold told WKVI that this holiday tradition brings the spirit of Christmas to the North Judson community and serves to commemorate those who have been lost.
“What we’ve done for these last probably eight years or so is someone picks a tree at Norwayne Field and they decorate it whatever way they choose to. Most of them are all done in memory of a family member or a friend that has passed away, but they get to pick any style they want. The only thing we require is that they use the outside lights on the tree and they attach things securely so that the wind or the weather doesn’t blow them off,” Reimbold said.
The end of daylight saving time is Sunday at 2 a.m. local time. Be sure to turn your clock back one hour at that time or before you go to bed Saturday night. In addition, you must set an alarm clock to ensure that you wake up on time the next morning to complete the tasks you need to do.
It’s also a good time to check the batteries in your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. According to the National Fire Protection Association, almost two-thirds of home fire deaths resulted from fires in properties without working smoke alarms. A working smoke alarm significantly increases your chances of surviving a deadly home fire.
Ty Dillon dominated the field as he crossed the finish line in the first position in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) race at Texas Motor Speedway Friday night. This was his third career win.
Dillon was ready to take the trophy and receive a Texas Motor Speedway special: a cowboy hat and the chance to fire a couple of six-shooters.
“Can’t wait to get that cowboy hat!” Dillon stated in a post-race interview on FoxSports 1. “I won at Texas!”
Carl Edwards raced his #99 Aflac Ford for Roush-Fenway Racing straight to the top of the qualifying order Friday afternoon and will start there Sunday afternoon in the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Edwards posted a top speed of 196.114 mph. Brad Keselowski will start on the outside pole. This is Keselowski’s 15th top-10 start of 2013. Jimmie Johnson qualified third, followed by Paul Menard and Kyle Busch. Matt Kenseth, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Jeff Gordon, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr, and Marcos Ambrose round out the top 10 qualifiers.
The Sprint Cup race begins at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday.
Jeb Burton has captured the Keystone Light Pole Award for tonight’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with a top speed of 179.432 mph. Justin Lofton will start in the second position, followed by Ty Dillon, Miguel Paludo and Max Gresham in the top five.
Brad Keselowski who was fastest in final practice yesterday will start in the 13th position. Points leader Matt Crafton will start right next to Keselowski in the 14th position. James Buescher will have a better starting spot in the 6th position. Buescher sits second in the championship standings.
The Winstar World Casino 350 will begin at 8:30 p.m. ET tonight at Texas Motor Speedway.
Martin Truex, Jr. will be driving for the #78 team in the 2014 season.
That was confirmed in a press conference Friday morning held by Furniture Row Racing in the Samsung Media Center at Texas Motor Speedway. Joe Garone, General Manager of Furniture Row Racing, officially welcomed Truex as the driver of the Furniture Row Chevrolet for the 2014 season. He has signed a multi-year contract with the team.
An accident at U.S. 30 and Union Road in Marshall County at 2:30 a.m. Friday claimed the life of 29-year-old Christopher Lowder of Knox.
A police investigation found that Lowder walked into the westbound lanes on U.S. 30 and into the path of an oncoming semi driven by an Ohio man. Marshall County Coroner Bill Cleavenger stated that Lowder was killed instantly. Toxicology results are pending and should be released sometime next week.
