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The long-anticipated, $320 million project began mid-January, aiming to rebuild old roads and bridges and improve the interchange's “abrupt curve” design. It's also dangerous, according to Indiana Department of Transportation numbers that show crash rates more than twice as high as the state's other urban interstates. Which parts of the interchange will close? Though Indianapolis traffic has already been impacted by closures related to the project, this upcoming closure is the big one, impacting as many as 200,000 vehicles each day. During this closure, expected to last until June 2022...

“I’ll see you in heaven.” It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life. Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday. Al’s daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Al’s hospitalization. Noe, 66, ...

View Comments Ascension St. Vincent officials announced plans on Monday for a $325 million expansion on the 86th Street campus that will include an updated women’s hospital, and a new neurosurgical hospital, positioning the hospital to become a destination for patients from across the Midwest. The project will include a larger neonatal intensive care unit. Carmel-based Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine will partner on the hospital that showcases its specialty.    With the additions, the north-side facility will seek to become a regional quaternary care center, which will provide specia...

Semi crash snarls morning traffic into downtown Indianapolis The semi rolled and blocked all lanes of traffic heading south from the North Split of I-65 and I-70. Author: WTHR.com staff Updated: 10:33 AM EDT May 3, 2021 INDIANAPOLIS — A rolled semi trailer blocked all lanes of I-65 and I-70 heading south into downtown Indianapolis Monday morning. The crash occurred shortly after 7 a.m. just south of North Split where southbound I-65 joins westbound I-70. It snarled morning traffic on southbound I-65 back to the Martin Luther King Jr. exit and westbound I-70 e...

Apr 22, 2021 / 11:51 PM EST INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A semi on Thursday night left I-70 and crashed into a vacant house in the North Split, said a tweet from Indiana State Police Sgt. John Perrine. The tweet did not say what time the crash happened. The house is near the intersection of East 16th Street and North Arsenal Avenue, and just east of New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. Police at the scene said the driver had a medical emergency. The semi went through a guardrail, across a small forested area and into a house under construction. No one was in the house when it was hit. The owners ...