🌱 I-70 Wrong-Way Crash + Ceasefire Weekend + IPS Teachers' Raise

Happy Saturday, neighbors! Let's start today off on an informed note. Here are the most important things going on around Indianapolis today.

First, today's weather:

A little morning rain; cloudy. High: 54 Low: 47.

Here are the top stories in Indianapolis today:

1. A suspect was arrested in an Interstate 70 wrong-way crash near the Rural St. and Keystone Ave. exit, shortly before 1:15 a.m on Friday morning. The wrong-way driver, later identified as 40-year-old Latasha Williams, struck a 2016 Jeep head-on and was not injured in the crash. The two adults and one juvenile who were in the Jeep were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. (WTHR)
2. Ceasefire Weekend begins this Friday as organizers ask people to keep the peace and stop the violence for 72 hours. Ron Gee and Della Brown started this initiative about a month ago after seeing homicide rates continue to rise in the city. Community rallies and neighborhood clean-ups are scheduled for Friday and throughout the weekend. Several of the weekend’s events are planned specifically in areas of high crime while also targeting Halloween weekend, as organizers say more crime tends to happen during holiday periods. (Fox 59)
3. On Thursday night, the IPS school board approved a pay raise for Indianapolis Public Schools teachers, which will go into effect on July 26. (WISHTV.com)
4. An Indianapolis man, Trevyon Brown-Jones, avoided jail time for a 2019 shooting that left one person injured. (WTHITV.com)
5. Nominate your favorite Indianapolis sports bar for Indy's Best. (Fox 59)

Today in Indianapolis:

• Trunk and Treat- Caffeine and Chrome-Classic Cars and Coffee at Gateway Classic Cars of Indianapolis (9:00 AM)
• Free Family Mini Photo Sessions in Lockerbie Square! - 500 Lockerbie St. (9:00 AM)
• 2021 Indianapolis Halloween Bar Crawl - Taps and Dolls (9:00 AM)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.