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Caitlin Clark excited for home debut on Thursday
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — It was not the smoothest debut for Caitlin Clark on Tuesday night. She set the record for most amount of turnovers in a WNBA debut with 10. But, she did finish with 20 points and knocked down four threes, which was also a record.
She joined Maya Moore and Edna Campbell as the only players in WNBA history to score 20 points and make four three pointers in their debut.
Now, she returns to Indianapolis for her regular season home debut on Thursday, when the Fever play the New York Liberty.
“I guess I’m just excited for Thursday to get back home and have our home opener,” Clark said after the game on Tuesday.
The home crowd should be packed on Thursday night with Fever fans. Their preseason game against the Atlanta Dream set a Fever attendance record for a preseason game, with 13,028 fans in the building. The Fever averaged just over 4,000 fans per game last season.
“Any time you can have a home opener and have the support that we’ve had, our preseason game was tremendous and now we get to for real,” Clark said. “I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. It’s going to be loud. We’re going to need to use the environment to our advantage and I think just learn and move on and get ready to play. Embrace it and enjoy it because it is special, too.”
While it was not the ideal regular season debut, Clark did play better in the fourth quarter. She scored eight points and knocked down two three-pointers.
It was a rough first game for the team as a whole as well. They turned the ball over 25 times and allowed the Sun to shoot over 42% from three-point range. All-Star and 2023 Rookie of the Year Aliyah Boston was shut down as well, scoring just four points on 2-6 shooting.
The Fever home opener on Thursday will be against the New York Liberty, who lost in the WNBA Finals last year. They also have the reigning WNBA MVP, Breanna Stewart.
The game will tip off at 7 p.m.
Stay updated with WISH-TV‘s live coverage from Gainbridge Fieldhouse starting at 5 p.m.
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First Tier 2 study for Mid-States Corridor project to begin – Inside INdiana Business
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The team behind the Mid-States Corridor Project in southern Indiana has received approval from the Indiana Department of Transportation to proceed with its first Tier 2 study.
The study will be the first of several to determine the alignment and access plan for the new highway, which is being designed to connect I-64 to I-69 through Spencer, Dubois and Martin counties.
The first Tier 2 study will focus on what’s known as Section of Independent Utility 2, or SIU 2, which extends from Interstate 64 near Huntingburg and Jasper to State Road 56 at Haysville in Dubois County.
The goal of the study is to “evaluate more site-specific impacts to determine the specific preferred location and right-of-way needs” for the highway. The study of SIU 2 is expected to take about three years to complete.
Early activity of the study will include survey work and data analysis, the project team said.
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In March 2023, the project team identified a refined preferred route alternative, known as Alternative P, which would run 54 from the I-64/U.S. 231 interchange up to I-69 near Odon.
The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) issued last September said four new alignment SIUs will each require a separate Tier 2 analysis and are expected to take place sequentially, rather than concurrently.
“Securing and programming funding to complete construction of each SIU may take nine to 15 years in several distinct phases of three to five years,” the FEIS said.
The Tier 2 studies for the remaining SIUs have not been scheduled.
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Parents can safely surrender babies up to 30 days old due to Indiana’s safe haven law
The deaths of two abandoned babies left out in the elements became foundational in establishing Indiana’s Safe Haven Law.
After the discovery of these babies, the state’s opinion on parents who couldn’t care for their babies shifted, which is why there are safe haven laws today.
Here’s what to know.
Baby Ephraim was a baby found dead outside a hospital emergency room on Jan. 26, 2000. He died of hypothermia.
While the parents clearly wanted their baby to receive the care he needed, it was determined that the fear of prosecution is what deterred the parents from handing their child directly to a nurse inside the hospital.
Indiana had been mulling legislation like many states across the country, but Ephraim’s death would solidify their decision and on March 24, 2000, then-governor Frank O’Bannon signed the Indiana law.
Although the law didn’t exist to help Ephraim, it should have saved Baby Jacob.
Just a year later, on Dec. 8, 2001, Jacob was found dead in a trashcan by workers outside a laundromat. He was wrapped in a sheet, several shopping bags and a trash bag. He still had his umbilical cord attached to his tiny body.
At this point, Indiana’s Safe Haven law had been enacted for 18 months, but few people in Indianapolis knew. Jacob’s death would change that by prompting a widespread awareness campaign.
Read the full story: 2 babies found dead outside were buried in unmarked graves. How they changed Indiana law
Indiana’s Safe Haven Law allows for the anonymous surrender of an infant 30 days old or younger without prosecution. Infants may be surrendered at fire departments, hospitals and emergency medical services stations. So long as there are no signs of intentional abuse or neglect, the person surrendering the child is not required to provide any information.
Developed by Monica Kelsey, who learned as an adult that she had been abandoned at a hospital after birth, safe haven baby boxes are devices installed in an exterior wall of fire stations or hospitals that allow for the anonymous surrender of an infant. The first box was installed at a fire station in Woodburn, Indiana, near Fort Wayne, in 2016.
The device is a two-way box, with a door inside and outside the building. The boxes are temperature controlled and programmed with several silent alarms to alert first responders. A silent alarm is triggered when the outside door is opened, when the baby is placed in the bassinet and again when the door is closed and automatically locked.
First responders retrieve the baby from inside the building and transport the infant to an area hospital for medical evaluation. The Department of Child Services then assumes custody of the child.
Do people actually use safe haven baby boxes?
Yes. In 2017 and 2018, babies were surrendered in a box at a Michigan City, Indiana, fire station. Delays in construction meant a box was still not ready when a baby was surrendered at Decatur Township Fire Department on Indianapolis’ southwest side in 2018. The infant was found healthy.
In October of 2023, IndyStar reported that a baby box in Carmel was one of the most used in the country.
According to Kevin Albin from Safe Haven Baby Boxes, 2 babies have been surrendered via baby boxes in the state this year, with many more being surrendered directly to personnel using the national crisis hotline.
Previously: More infants are left in this Indiana baby box than anywhere else in the country
In Indiana, parents can surrender babies that are up to 30 days old either face to face or via baby boxes without facing prosecution.
You can check Safe Haven Baby Box’s website to find the nearest baby box.
Katie Wiseman is a trending news intern at IndyStar. Contact her at klwiseman@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @itskatiewiseman.
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