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Situation Desk

This section includes inclement weather, action by first responders (police, fire, and ambulance), occasionally demonstrations and protests—anything with an element of urgency.

Tuesday’s tornado sirens: Time for Monroe County residents to test their severe weather plan—and resist storm-watching urges

Tuesday’s tornado sirens: Time for Monroe County residents to test their severe weather plan—and resist storm-watching urges

All 37 of Monroe County’s tornado sirens are supposed to go off tomorrow at 10:15 a.m. (Tuesday, March 11) as a part of a statewide test that’s been set up by Indiana’s Department of Homeland Security. That’s on top of the regular first-Friday monthly

A person holds a military style rifle in front of a government building. The plaza is made of brick.

Armed protester at Bloomington city hall prompts concerns about street homelessness, comms protocols, security

Late Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 25), on the bricked plaza in front of Bloomington’s city hall, a person with an AR-15-style rifle was passing out flyers for the Rainbow Panther Party with a call to “combat the city’s fascist policies against the unhoused.” The one-person demonstration reportedly lasted a