{"id":10775,"date":"2024-10-10T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/?p=10775"},"modified":"2024-10-10T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:04:52","slug":"local-news-headlines-october-10-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloomingtonnews.online\/?p=10775","title":{"rendered":"Local News Headlines: October 10, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Braun issues Public Safety Plan for Hoosiers
<\/strong>US Senator Mike Braun, Indiana\u2019s Republican gubernatorial candidate, released a public safety plan this week. Braun\u2019s plan offers a 6 bullet point approach toward public safety that would focus on if elected. Confronting the drug crisis, Enforcing laws, Prioritizing school safety, Supporting law enforcement, Tackling illegal immigration, and Treating mental health with \u201cseriousness.\u201d Braun will face Libertarian Donald Rainwater and Democrat Jennfer McCormick in the November General Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Executive named at The Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington
<\/strong>The Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington, have announced the hiring of Leslie Abshier as their next Chief Executive Officer. Abshier has over a decade of service to the Club as the Vice President of Resource Development. She will assume the role on January 1, 2025 following the end of the calendar year retirement of Jeff Baldwin, who has led the club since 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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62 guns have been stopped by TSA in Indiana this year
<\/strong>A recent report has been released stating that TSA has stopped over 5,000 guns at airport security checkpoints throughout the country so far this year, with 93 percent of those guns being loaded. 62 of those were stopped at the Indianapolis International Airport between January and September 1st<\/sup> of this Calendar Year. Officers have screened over nearly 700 million passengers thus far in 2024, a 6% increase from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bloomington Fire Department observes Fire Prevention Week with local students<\/strong>
The Bloomington Fire Department (BFD) is participating in Fire Prevention Week with a focus on this year\u2019s theme, \u201cSmoke Alarms: Make Them Work for You!\u201d BFD has scheduled field trips to fire stations and classroom visits to teach students about fire safety. And also requests that residents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n