Jim Irsay, the longtime owner of the Indianapolis Colts, died on Wednesday afternoon. He was 65.
According to the team, Irsay &#8220;passed away peacefully in his sleep.&#8221; He was one of the most recognized team owners in the NFL, taking over the Colts franchise in 1997 after the death of his father, Robert Irsay.
&#8220;We are devastated to announce our beloved Owner &amp; CEO, Jim Irsay, passed away peacefully in his sleep this afternoon,&#8221; said Colts chief operating officer Pete Ward, according to <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45259729/indianapolis-colts-owner-ceo-jim-irsay-dies-65" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESPN</a>. &#8220;Jim&#8217;s dedication and passion for the Indianapolis Colts in addition to his generosity, commitment to the community, and most importantly, his love for his family were unsurpassed.&#8221;
No cause of death was provided. Irsay is survived by his three daughters and 10 grandchildren.
After taking over in 1997 and selecting legendary quarterback Peyton Manning in the 1998 draft, Irsay built the Colts into one of the best teams in the NFL, winning the Super Bowl in 2007 and the AFC championship in 2009. Irsay made the difficult decision to release Manning in 2012 after the then-35-year-old star quarterback underwent neck surgery. Manning went on to lead the Denver Broncos to two Super Bowls, winning one of them.
&#8220;I am heartbroken to hear about Jim Irsay&#8217;s passing,&#8221; Manning wrote in a post on Instagram. &#8220;He was an incredibly generous and passionate owner and I will always be indebted to him for giving me my start in the NFL. His love for the Colts and the city of Indy was unmatched. His impact on the players who played for him will not be forgotten. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and everyone in the Colts community. He will be missed. Jim, rest in peace my friend.&#8221;
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Along with owning the Colts, Irsay was also known for his philanthropic work and his huge Rock &amp; Roll <a href="https://www.jimirsaycollection.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collection</a>, which includes instruments and items owned by Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, and many others. Irsay also purchased the original handwritten scroll of Jack Kerouac&#8217;s &#8220;On the Road&#8221; in 2001. The Colts owner often loaned some of his collection to museums, nonprofits, and other organizations to display or research.
Irsay struggled with prescription drug abuse, an issue that the Colts owner said almost killed him. In 2014, Irsay was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and was suspended by the NFL, and then in 2023, he was found unresponsive in his bedroom from a suspected overdose. Shortly after the incident, the team said Irsay was recovering from a &#8220;severe respiratory illness.&#8221; Irsay made few public appearances in the months leading up to his death.
Ownership of the team will likely transfer to his daughters, Carlie Irsay-Gordon, Casey Foyt, and Kalen Jackson. His oldest daughter, Irsay-Gordon, will &#8220;primarily take charge of the football side of the franchise,&#8221; The Indianapolis Star <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2025/05/21/carlie-irsay-gordon-colts-jim-irsay/72274815007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Irsay-Gordon previously took over for her father when he was suspended during the 2014 season and during his treatment at rehabilitation centers.

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General Motors is planning to ramp up its production of light-duty trucks in the United States after President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-touts-businesses-coming-back-with-new-plan-for-25-tariffs-on-vehicles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">imposed</a> a 25% tariff on auto imports, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gm-increase-us-truck-production-following-trumps-tariffs-2025-04-03/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Thursday.
In a message sent to employees, GM said it will increase the truck production at its assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The auto company based in Detroit said in a statement that it &#8220;will be making operational adjustments at Fort Wayne Assembly, including hiring temporary employees, to support current manufacturing and business needs,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2025/04/03/gm-increasing-truck-production-fort-wayne-indiana-tariffs-donald-trump/82794018007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Detroit News</a>.
Plant Director Dennys Pimenta told employees that the change could add more overtime days to the schedule for workers, and a company source told Reuters that hundreds of temporary workers could get hired at the plant, which currently employs around 4,150 workers. GM&#8217;s plants in Canada and Mexico that also focus on making light-duty and full-size trucks will not see any changes to production schedules, a source told The Detroit News.
Trump&#8217;s tariff on auto imports kicked in on Thursday after he announced it in the Oval Office last week.
“What we’re going to be doing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. If they are made in the United States, there is absolutely no tariff,” Trump said.
The tariff will likely affect Canada and Mexico the most as U.S. car manufacturers have outsourced production of their vehicles to each of those countries. Canada&#8217;s second largest export is vehicles, and around 125,000 Canadians work directly in the automotive industry, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/canada-prime-minister-trump-trade-war-autos-d15ae5b0bab873450b86ca524afda3ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. On Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to match the United States&#8217; 25% auto tariff.
“We take these measures reluctantly. And we take them in ways that is intended and will cause maximum impact in the United States and minimum impact in Canada,” Carney said.
Trump recently credited tariffs for bringing manufacturing jobs to the United States after South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai announced a $21 billion <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tariffs-very-strongly-work-trump-announces-21-billion-hyundai-investment-in-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investment</a> in the country over the next four years.
“This investment is a clear demonstration that tariffs very strongly work,” Trump said. “And I hope other things also, but the tariffs are bringing them in at levels that have not been witnessed.”

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The Club For Growth is launching two efforts to back school choice measures in Indiana and North Dakota, the organization told The Daily Wire. 
The organization launched the campaign with ads that aired during the Sunday morning political shows. The campaign comes as President Donald Trump has pushed to dismantle the Education Department and put individual states in charge of education.
“School freedom is the defining civil rights issue of the generation and is only continuing to expand across the country,” Club for Growth President David McIntosh told The Daily Wire. “With the additions of Indiana and North Dakota, Club for Growth has now engaged in 10 states working to pass and protect education freedom in 2025.” 
The North Dakota campaign urges lawmakers to pass legislation that would create an education scholarship program for private schools. Currently, multiple proposals are making their way through the statehouse that would provide parents with education vouchers. The House and Senate have passed two different pieces of legislation that create education scholarship programs with significant structural differences. 
“From crops to crude to championships, North Dakota’s hard to top,” the Club for Growth ad says. “But when it comes to choice in education, we’re 48th in the nation. Legislators in Bismarck can change that with new legislation providing education savings accounts for North Dakota kids, giving parents the freedom to choose the right school for their child.” 
That ad will run Monday through Friday on Fox News and conservative radio in Bismarck. 
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In Indiana, the Club for Growth ad is urging lawmakers to back Governor Mike Braun’s school choice proposal. Braun has proposed making every student in Indiana eligible for education vouchers. 
“Parents are in charge of their own kids&#8217; education,” Braun says in the ad, which will air on Fox in Indianapolis Monday through Friday. “Let&#8217;s put parents in the driver’s seat with universal school choice.” 
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The Club for Growth backed school choice measures that became law in Tennessee, Wyoming, and Idaho. It is currently backing efforts in multiple other states, including Georgia, Texas, and South Carolina. 
“The status quo forced upon families by teacher union bureaucrats and the public school monopoly is indefensible — we will not stop until every parent has the opportunity to provide their children with the quality education they deserve,” McIntosh said.

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Every time a radical, out-of-control federal judge issues an outrageous opinion, you would think things couldn’t get any worse. But then someone like Richard Young comes along.
Young, a Clinton-appointed federal district court judge in Indiana, just ordered the state’s Department of Corrections to provide sex reassignment surgery to a man who wants to masquerade as a woman—a man who is in prison for murdering a baby.
That, shockingly, is what Young did in his <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trans-inmate-prison-killing-baby-must-get-gender-surgery-earliest-opportunity-judge.print">order</a> in Autumn Cordellione v. Indiana. Lest you be fooled by the name “Autumn” or the fact that Young refers to “Autumn” as “Ms.” and “her” throughout his disgraceful opinion, this criminal’s real name is Jonathan Richardson. He is in prison for strangling his 11-month-old stepdaughter to death in 2001.
Richardson, who the judge refers to in his order as the “individual” or the “incarcerated transgender person,” is being represented by the ACLU in this lawsuit, in which Richardson demands that he be provided with “gender-affirming surgery.” Really, how can anyone justify making contributions to the ACLU when it engages in this type of despicable litigation?
Indiana has already provided this male child killer with “panties, makeup, and form-fitting clothing” while in prison—a place that, if justice is served for this vicious crime, Richardson will never, ever leave. But as Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trans-inmate-prison-killing-baby-must-get-gender-surgery-earliest-opportunity-judge.print">says</a>, “Convicted murderers don’t get to demand that taxpayers foot the bill for expensive and controversial sex-change operations. It defies all common sense.”
Au contraire, according to Young. He says that Indiana’s failure to provide Richardson with the surgery necessary to cut off his penis and give him fake breasts violates the Eighth Amendment.
If this wasn’t a real order from a real federal judge, you’d think it was something written for The Babylon Bee or Mad magazine.
The Eighth Amendment prohibits the infliction of “cruel and unusual punishments.” As the Heritage Guide to the Constitution <a href="https://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/amendments/8/essays/161/cruel-and-unusual-punishment">explains</a>, the amendment was included in order to prevent the type of “torturous punishments” often inflicted by the British Crown, like “pillorying, disemboweling, decapitation, and drawing and quartering.”
Yet for decades, opponents have tried to use the ban on “cruel and unusual punishments” to outlaw the death penalty altogether. The Supreme Court ended that in 1976 in <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1975/74-6257">Gregg v. Georgia</a>, when it held that the death penalty is not a per se violation of the Eighth Amendment.
The court has further held in a series of cases that under the Eighth Amendment, punishments cannot be disproportionate to the offense. But it also held just last year in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf">City of Grants Pass v. Johnson</a>, a case illustrating the extremes to which those trying to misuse the Eighth Amendment will go, that public bans on camping in public parks are not “cruel and unusual punishment.” That claim was just as absurd as the ACLU’s claim in the Richardson case.
Young relies on his opinion in the guidelines on “gender dysphoria” issued by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, as well as some other so-called experts. WPATH’s <a href="https://can-sg.org/2024/06/28/scandalous-suppression-of-research-on-transgender-health/">work</a> and medical opinions have been severely criticized for bias and lack of scientific rigor. It has also been accused of suppressing research that contradicts its opinions.
Young dismissed the opinion of the treating psychologist at Richardson’s prison that Richardson has personality disorders, not “gender dysphoria,” that display “an established pattern of attention-seeking behavior.”
Richardson is certainly getting that attention with Young’s decision that not providing him with gender surgery is “cruel and unusual punishment.” But we shouldn’t be surprised. Young is the same judge who in 2018 struck down an Indiana law that required healthcare providers to report abortion complications to the state health department in <a href="https://www.aclu-in.org/sites/default/files/sea_340_decisoin.pdf">PPINK v. Indiana</a>.
In other words, when the health and lives of real women were endangered by botched abortions performed by incompetent physicians who committed malpractice, Young prevented state health authorities from being able to do anything about it. Young apparently believes in protecting only fake women, not real ones.
As this case demonstrates, it isn’t only the Trump administration that’s dealing with an arrogant, imperial judiciary that ignores the Constitution and the rule of law and acts far outside of its authority. State governments are also on the receiving end of outlandish and bizarre orders like this one.
The Supreme Court recently declined to intervene – at least for now &#8211; in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a831_3135.pdf">Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition</a>, in which the Trump administration is dealing with another rogue judge who has ordered the government to distribute $2 billion of taxpayer money without examining the serious defenses raised by the government. In a dissent from the court’s refusal to hear the case, which was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Samuel Alito wrote:
Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) $2 billion? The answer to that question should be an emphatic “No,” but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned.
The taxpayers and residents of Indiana should also be stunned by the actions of Judge Richard Young who used his thus-far-unchecked power to force them to pay for a sex change operation for a child murderer, the worst of the worst.
Stunned indeed.
Hans von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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The Jasper County, Indiana, Sheriff&#8217;s Office released dashcam footage on Thursday showing last month&#8217;s traffic stop where a man pardoned by President Donald Trump was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-who-received-j6-pardon-shot-and-killed-during-traffic-stop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot and killed</a> during an altercation with a deputy.
Matthew Huttle of Hobart, Indiana — who benefited from Trump&#8217;s sweeping January 6 Capitol riot pardons — allegedly resisted arrest after being pulled over on January 26. Huttle, who was stopped on State Road 14 for driving 70 mph in a 55 mph zone, told the deputy, &#8220;I just want to let you know that I&#8217;m a January 6th defendant,&#8221; according to body cam footage, the Indianapolis Star <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/02/27/body-cam-footage-jan-6-defendants-traffic-stop-shooting-death-released-matthew-huttle-jasper-county/80731312007/#body-cam-matthew-huttle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; the deputy asked.
&#8220;I stormed the Capitol. I&#8217;m waiting on my pardon,&#8221; Huttle replied, adding, &#8220;Yeah, and I can&#8217;t really afford to get into any trouble right now.&#8221;
He then admitted to driving without a license. Informed that his felony offense requires that the officer transport him to jail, Huttle said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t do it. No, I can&#8217;t go to jail for this, sir.&#8221;
The bodycam footage appears to have been taken down by YouTube. Dashcam <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-B64wlUUOs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">footage</a> of the incident is still on the platform and shows Huttle sprinting to the driver&#8217;s side door and reaching into the vehicle.
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The Clinton County, Indiana, Prosecutor’s Office reviewed the case and said that the deputy chased Huttle before a struggle ensued. After jumping into the car, Huttle allegedly raised a gun and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m shooting myself.&#8221; The prosecutor&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.in.gov/sheriffs/jasper/files/Jasper-County-OIS-Final-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concluded</a> that the officer &#8220;was legally justified in using deadly force to defend himself.&#8221;
&#8220;Believing that Huttle posed a deadly threat, the Deputy fired multiple shots, striking Huttle. The Deputy then retreated to his vehicle and awaited backup. Lifesaving measures were attempted, but Huttle was pronounced deceased at the scene,&#8221; the prosecutor&#8217;s office said.
During the traffic stop, Huttle &#8220;was found to be a Habitual Traffic Violator,&#8221; a felony under Indiana law, according to the prosecutor&#8217;s office. The 42-year-old Indiana man previously spent time behind bars for a driving offense.
Shortly after being released from jail for his previous offense, Huttle attended the rally at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. He later pled guilty to entering a restricted building after being inside the U.S. Capitol for 16 minutes. Huttle&#8217;s defense attorney, Andrew Hemmer, said that his client was “not a true believer in any political cause” but was only at the Trump rally that day “because he thought it would be a historic moment and he had nothing better to do after getting out of jail.”

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In the past nine years, there have been three presidential elections, 6 congressional elections, and 35 different iPhone models.
Yet, in that same amount of time, one former Purdue University student has been stuck in limbo, unable to end a nightmare that began all those years ago.
<h3>The Allegations</h3>
During the fall semester of 2015, a male student whom The Daily Wire will refer to as John Doe began dating a female student referred to in court documents as Jane Doe. The relationship was okay for a while, but on December 13, 2015, Jane threatened to commit suicide in front of John by standing on the ledge of a parking garage after throwing objects around her dorm room and crying while saying she hated life. After this incident, according to John’s eventual lawsuit against Purdue reviewed by The Daily Wire, all sexual activity between the two ceased.
In early January 2016, John reported Jane’s suicide attempt to Purdue, and shortly after, she began to pull away from the relationship and the two went their separate ways. Four months later, and only after Purdue’s highly marketed Sexual Assault Awareness Month events, Jane accused John of sexually assaulting her during their relationship.
John received notice of the accusations on April 11, 2016. Jane claimed she awoke one night to John groping her. She told him it was not okay. John told her at some point before that incident that he digitally penetrated her while she was sleeping. He said he felt bad about the first incident but proceeded to the second incident anyway. Jane became upset at John over these incidents and left his room. John had also gone through her underwear in her laundry, and had once chased her down the hall, joking about tasing her. After they had broken up, he also continued to go to her room unannounced. She claimed John had a temper he couldn’t control as well.
John vehemently denies Jane’s allegations, stating in his lawsuit that he responded to the allegations by informing Purdue that he never groped her in her sleep in November 2015, but that in mid-December of that year, after her suicide attempt, she slept on a futon in his dorm room while he slept on the floor. At some point in the night, John accidentally touched her knee and she began freaking out before leaving the room. John also said he never had any sexual contact with her while she was asleep, and therefore never told her that he did. He added that he never went through her laundry but sometimes did her laundry for her and never threatened to tase Jane. He also noted that the two never formally broke up, they simply began seeing each other less, and that he merely went to her room to return an item. At that time, she told him not to go to her room, so he didn’t.
John provided evidence that Jane continued to shower him with affection even after these alleged incidents, demonstrating behavior not in line with someone who had been sexually assaulted. She continued to text with John over the holidays, wished him a Happy Christmas Eve, and sent him a package of homemade cookies for his family. She also invited him to her room at the beginning of the spring 2016 semester.
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In addition, John provided Purdue with evidence that it was Jane who had the temper and tried to project that onto John. She often contemplated running away and not returning to the school as well. John also provided a list of more than 30 names to substantiate his reputation, since Jane attacked his character and credibility in her allegations.
Purdue’s policy did not allow John to review the investigator’s prepared report, nor was he provided a hearing to determine the credibility of Jane’s claims. John maintains in his lawsuit that his “ability to defend himself was severely and unfairly prejudiced.”
Instead of a hearing, a three-person panel reviewed John’s case. Jane never appeared before the panel and instead provided a statement written by Purdue’s Title IX coordinator. In that statement, Jane only requested that John be removed from Purdue’s Navy ROTC program, of which they were both members. Jane’s new boyfriend at the time was also a member. Jane stated that she didn’t fear John on campus and merely wanted him out of the ROTC.
Without any evidence corroborating Jane’s claims, John was suspended from Purdue and had to leave the Navy ROTC program. He appealed the decision, but was denied without adequate explanation, so he filed a lawsuit against the university as many students have done in the past decade.
<h3>The Lawsuit</h3>
John dreamed of becoming a Navy SEAL officer, but says he can’t get a federal job with this on his record. His Title IX case is the longest ongoing case of its kind, with the closest similar case lasting seven years and ending in a disappointing motion to dismiss for the wrongly accused student.
“Purdue&#8217;s wrongful suspension of me closed all federal &amp; military employment opportunities because I was employed with the Navy through their ROTC program at the time of the suspension, which forced me to ‘resign’ with the Navy after my school suspension was finalized,” John told The Daily Wire in an email.
“Expungement of my school disciplinary file would give me an opportunity to fix my [Department of Defense] record, which currently makes me look bad due to the circumstances and thus limits my employment opportunities. For reference, I was a 4.0 GPA varsity athlete when I graduated high school, and double majoring with a minor while employed with the Navy ROTC at Purdue. My longtime dream was to become a Navy SEAL officer. The derailment of my life by Purdue was severe, to say the least.”
The case has persisted due the slow nature of the justice system, numerous filings and responses from both parties, and appeals to higher courts. The case even landed on the desk of Judge Amy Coney Barrett before she was nominated for the Supreme Court. Barrett, who was with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019, upheld John’s claims that Purdue violated his due process and Title IX rights. Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex, and accused students have said they are discriminated against as males when they are falsely accused and a school takes no steps to protect them.
When the case was sent back to a lower court, a judge dismissed John’s due process claim. John is trying to get the court to reinstate that claim and has had the judge who dismissed it replaced. The next stage of this case is a trial on the Title IX claim alone, which could result in what John ultimately wants: This whole thing to be expunged from his record.
After nine years of litigation, John’s family has spent more than $350,000 on legal bills, draining their savings and 401ks. He is currently working to set up a fundraiser to continue fighting Purdue’s persecution.
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<h3>Purdue’s Response</h3>
In a statement to The Daily Wire, Purdue University chief spokesperson Erin Murphy said the school rejected John’s assertions of unfairness toward him.
“Most of [John’s] claims were dismissed long ago,” Murphy said, referring to the multiple claims students include in lawsuits hoping at least one will be accepted.
“His single remaining claim has been ready for trial for years. [John] insists on going to trial, but his lawyers have caused delays. Some of his lawyers quit his case in June 2023 after the last settlement conference,” Murphy continued. “[John] has publicly criticized those former lawyers. His remaining lawyer has filed repeated demands for a different judge, which were rejected by multiple courts, including the United States Supreme Court. His remaining lawyer has also required trial postponements for personal reasons that are shown in the court record.”
Those “delays” refer to John and his attorney attempting to get a new judge assigned to the case due to allegations of unfairness and a pro-Purdue bias. There is a new judge overseeing the case, as the previous judge was promoted by the Biden administration.
John’s attorneys did not quit on him, and the “public criticism” Murphy refers to is a testimonial on his attorney’s website saying that the attorney left his previous law firm “after partners at the firm tried to strong-arm” John’s case from him.
Finally, the “personal reasons” Murphy alludes to at the end of her statement refers to the attorney’s cancer diagnosis. John’s attorney has been battling cancer while fighting for his client.

Purdue University

Nine Years Later, One Student’s Title IX Nightmare Still Isn’t Over

American Universities

College

Court

false accusations

Navy SEAL

Relationships

Sexual Harassment

Students

An 18-year-old girl, who allegedly wrote about identifying as a male and had a &#8220;shrine&#8221; to mass killers, was arrested and charged this week for allegedly planning a mass school shooting at Mooresville High School in Indiana.
The student, a female who allegedly identifies as a &#8220;transgender male,&#8221; was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and felony intimidation after one of her friends sent information to the FBI&#8217;s Sandy Hook tipline. The tipster stated that a friend was planning on carrying out a mass shooting and had access to an AR-15 rifle, <a href="https://wlos.com/resources/pdf/6ac11bcf-18fb-4c09-86ec-7fac9c972ffb-PCWhite_3039741111.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to police</a>.
After the tip came in, the FBI tracked down disturbing messages the student allegedly sent under the name &#8220;Jamie&#8221; on social media platforms Snapchat and Discord. The messages detailed plans for a mass shooting along with photos of a bulletproof vest and AR-15 rifles. In one of the messages, Jamie wrote that she had been planning the school shooting for a year.
According to investigators, the student spoke with a school counselor on Tuesday and disclosed that she was sexually attracted to the 19-year-old shooter who killed 17 people and wounded 17 more at Parkland High School in Florida in 2018.
In 2022, the student was hit by a suspected drunk driver while walking to the bus stop. The crash fractured her skull, broke her femur and arm, and caused two brain contusions, according to a report from <a href="https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/morgan-county/mooresville/mooresville-student-suffering-broken-bones-brain-contusions-after-being-hit-by-suspected-drunk-driver" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WRTV</a>. She allegedly told investigators that she was teased about the accident. &#8220;[She] found out later that the male who struck her with his vehicle, committed suicide. She felt like she killed him, but she knows she did not. She blamed herself for him killing himself,&#8221; the arrest affidavit states.
The student sought mental health help when she was a freshman, but a school official told police that her father did not allow her to continue receiving mental health assistance. Shortly after the student turned 18 last year, she signed herself up for mental health assistance.
Authorities executed a search warrant at her home, where she lives with her father. During their search, authorities said they found &#8220;a collage&#8221; on the wall of multiple mass shooters and found three notebooks belonging to the student.
&#8220;Each notebook depicted swastikas, the words &#8216;kill,&#8217; &#8216;bang,&#8217; &#8216;I hate you all DIE DIE DIE&#8217; among other obscenities,&#8221; the arrest affidavit stated.
According to police, one of the student&#8217;s notebook entries — dated December 16, 2024 — stated, &#8220;My name is Dex I am eighteen years old. Born on October 26th 2006. I currently live with my father, my mother passed away. I am aslo [sic] a transgender male. I have a lot of homicidal thoughts.&#8221;
A January 9, 2025, entry read, &#8220;I am death, destroyer of worlds.&#8221; A few days later, the writer penned, &#8220;These thoughts wont stop. I want to hurt others. All of the time! I want to hurt others. I wish people around me knew about my bad thoughts. I love violence.&#8221;
The student is being held without bond at the Morgan County Jail, WTHR <a href="https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/18-year-old-charged-allegedly-planning-mass-shooting-mooresville-high-school-trinity-shockley/531-3ab9d4e1-1d0c-4948-a6e3-289847054be5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.

Police

18-Year-Old Indiana Girl Arrested After Allegedly Planning Valentine’s Day School Shooting

Crime

School Shooting

A 42-year-old Indiana man who was pardoned by President Donald Trump last week —after entering the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021 — was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Sunday afternoon.
Matthew Huttle of Hobart, Indiana, allegedly resisted arrest and got into an &#8220;altercation&#8221; with a Jasper County Sheriff’s Department deputy, according to authorities, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/indiana-man-killed-trump-pardon-matthew-huttle-8c674e76c8e3c5ef1610ed29d0669050" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Indiana State Police said that after Huttle was pulled over, &#8220;an altercation took place between the suspect and the officer, which resulted in the officer firing his weapon and fatally wounding the suspect.&#8221;
Huttle was in possession of a firearm when he was pulled over, the state police said. Authorities did not say why Huttle was pulled over or what led to the confrontation. The officer who shot Huttle has been placed on leave as authorities investigate the fatal shooting.
Huttle&#8217;s attorney, Nick Barnes — who was representing the 42-year-old in multiple pending motor vehicle cases — said he did not know what led to the shooting, according to the AP. Huttle previously spent time behind bars for a driving offense.
In 2023, Huttle pled guilty to entering a restricted building after he was in the U.S. Capitol for 16 minutes on January 6, 2021. Defense attorney Andrew Hemmer said that Huttle was &#8220;not a true believer in any political cause,&#8221; but was only at the Trump rally that day &#8220;because he thought it would be a historic moment and he had nothing better to do after getting out of jail.&#8221;
Huttle, and his uncle, Dale Huttle, were two of the roughly 1,500 people who received pardons from Trump last week after being charged in the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-full-pardon-to-nearly-all-j6-defendants-could-be-released-from-prison-tonight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> his executive order granting pardons to nearly all the defendants charged in relation to the Capitol breach just hours after taking office.
“This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years and begins a process of national reconciliation,” the order states.

Man Who Received J6 Pardon Shot And Killed During Traffic Stop

An Indiana man has been found guilty of killing two teenage girls near a hiking trail in Delphi back in 2017 in a case that gained national attention.
Richard Allen, 50, was found guilty Monday on two counts of murder and two counts of felony murder in the killing of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/us/delphi-murders-trial-verdict/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The jury spent 19 hours deliberating across three days before coming to the decision.
“Regardless of what the verdict is, people aren’t going to be happy,” said Special Judge Frances Gull before reading the verdict, WTHR <a href="https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/delphi-girls-murdered/jury-has-reached-a-verdict-delphi-murders-trial-richard-allen-libby-german-abby-williams-deliberation-liberty-abigail-guilty-or-not/531-d6b210da-905d-44b7-8e5c-fa28fef0a4c2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Allen faces up to 130 years in prison for the murders and remained emotionless while the verdict was read before being comforted by his attorneys. A gag order was placed on the case, so attorneys cannot speak about it until after Allen’s sentencing on December 20. Allen’s attorney did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry about his likely appeal.
Libby’s grandmother, Becky Patty, cried and hugged family members as she left the courthouse. Outside, people reportedly cheered the verdict while others showed support for Allen, who many believe did not receive a fair trial and may be innocent.
Allen’s wife, Kathy, told WTHR that the legal case “isn’t over at all.”
Carroll County Prosecutor Nick McLeland, in his opening and closing statements, alleged that Allen is the man seen in a video taken by Libby telling the girls to go “down the hill.”
The video was recorded as the girls crossed the Monon High Bridge. Their bodies were found nearby the day after they went missing.
“I believe the evidence is firmly convincing that Richard Allen is ‘Bridge Guy,’ and he killed Abby and Libby,” McLeland <a href="https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/delphi-girls-murdered/closing-arguments-jury-deliberates-day-18-delphi-murders-trial-suspect-richard-allen-libby-german-abby-williams/531-3a06e7f9-0c91-4124-b569-897742869704" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> jurors, WTHR reported.
The prosecution also pointed to confessions Allen made while in jail, though his defense attorneys have long claimed those confessions <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/delphi-murder-suspect-allegedly-confessed-to-murdering-teen-girls-defense-says-confessions-cant-be-trusted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can’t be trusted</a> because of Allen’s failing mental health.
Defense attorney Brad Rozzi used his closing statements to point out the issues with the prosecution’s case, including the lack of DNA or weapons evidence tying Allen to the crime, as well as a timeline he says doesn’t line up.
“The defense trusts what you’ve heard over the past several weeks is more important than what you’re hearing today,” Rozzi said.
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Defense attorney Andrew Baldwin previously argued that the state’s investigation was botched and that cell phone evidence shows Allen couldn’t have been the one to kill the girls. Baldwin said the prosecution claimed the girls were killed by 4 p.m. on February 13, 2017, and their bodies were not moved prior to their discovery the next day. Allen, who admitted to being on the trail the day the girls were killed, left the area by 2:15 p.m., according to his legal team, citing phone records.
The prosecution also claimed an unspent bullet found at the crime scene came from Allen’s gun, but the round is commonly used by law enforcement, and no officer’s gun was tested in connection to the case. The idea that a mass-produced bullet cycled through a mass-produced gun could create a unique marking is also suspect, according to Stephen Gutowski, a certified firearms instructor and reporter who founded The Reload.
“The forensic techniques used by crime labs to match specific guns to specific bullets have come under heavy scrutiny in recent years,” Gutowski <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unsealed-probable-cause-affidavit-explains-how-police-linked-richard-allen-to-2017-delphi-murders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire in 2022. “So, I think it’s important to examine claims like this with a healthy dose of skepticism. The idea you could match a mark on the rim of a casing to a specific gun’s extractor seems dubious to me.”
The case was also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/legal-drama-continues-ahead-of-delphi-murder-suspects-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plagued by drama</a> behind closed doors, with accusations of impropriety flying from both sides, as well as at and from the judge.

Richard Allen

Indiana Man Convicted Of Killing Two Teenage Girls

Courts

Murder

Teenagers

Residents from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-ohio-town-overrun-by-haitian-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another midwestern town</a>, this time in Indiana, say city resources are being strained and their children put last due to a sudden influx of migrants from Haiti.
Thousands of new migrants, hailing mostly from Haiti, are now living in Logansport, Indiana, a town with a population of just 18,000. Though local officials say they have not been given any answers on just how many migrants have moved in, estimates range from 3,000 to <a href="https://fox59.com/investigations/logansport-officials-say-immigrant-population-growth-is-unsustainable/">5,000 Haitians</a>. The surrounding areas have seen an influx as well, with an estimated 11,000 new migrants county-wide.
Logansport Mayor Chris Martin has said that there are “assimilation issues” related to culture, according to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/21/us-news/logansport-in-students-struggle-after-thousands-of-migrants-moved-in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the New York Post.
In one instance, a resident named Nancy Baker told the Post that her 16-year-old daughter was chased by migrants after she rebuffed their calls to walk over to them while she was on her way to a nearby coffee shop. 
Another resident, 32-year-old Candice Espinoza, said migrants routinely stare into her windows while she’s home, holding up their phones, potentially recording her.
“It’s not safe. They just stare at you and won’t talk to you,” she told the Post. “They stand there staring at my house with cameras on their phones. I don’t know if they’re recording, what they’re doing.”
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“You don’t feel easy when someone is constantly watching you,&#8221; Espinoza added.
Additionally, resources are now significantly strained. The number of Haitian migrant students in Logansport schools has increased 15-fold since 2021. Teachers are having to spend increased time with these new students because of the language barrier. Baker says her daughter dropped out of public school to take the rest of her classes online.
“She quit. She’s in online school now,&#8221; Baker said. &#8220;Nobody was getting the attention that they needed. It’s way too many kids, and it seemed to her that because they didn&#8217;t speak the language and didn&#8217;t understand what was going on, they were getting more attention.”
Baker said she’s frustrated that her daughter&#8217;s school is spending most of its resources on &#8220;one group of children,&#8221; while &#8220;everybody else is falling behind.”
In January of 2023, the Biden-Harris administration launched a new program that allowed more than <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/us/springfield-ohio-haitians-immigration-cec/index.html">200,000 Haitians</a> to be paroled into the U.S. Additionally, over the summer, the administration granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to more than <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/biden-admin-gives-protected-status-309000-haitians-rcna159438">300,000</a> Haitian migrants, who are now permitted to stay in the U.S. until at least February of 2026, even if they entered the country illegally.
It&#8217;s unclear how so many migrants are ending up in small towns in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. However, there does seem to be a connection between nonprofits that are resettling migrants and businesses looking for labor.
A <a href="https://fox59.com/investigations/logansport-officials-say-immigrant-population-growth-is-unsustainable/">report</a> from FOX59 and CBS4 connected Haitian migrants in Logansport to Tyson Foods, a meatpacking plant. The report noted that Tyson did not respond when they were asked about how many migrants, particularly young migrants, are working for them in the city. Notably, Haitian teens are reportedly working shifts to help their families while also attending school.
Tyson made headlines back in May when a conservative <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/tyson-foods-accused-by-conservative-group-bias-against-us-workers-2024-05-29/">nonprofit</a> called America First Legal asked the Department of Justice to investigate the company over its employment practices concerning migrants. AFL said Tyson employs 42,000 foreign workers &#8212; more than a third of its U.S. workforce &#8212; and is also involved in programs to recruit more migrants. 
Tyson has strongly denied discriminating against American workers for migrants and said all their workers are legal.
In Springfield, Ohio, another town inundated with migrants from Haiti, manufacturing and packing plant jobs opened up and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/us/haitian-migrants-springfield-ohio.html">businesses</a> welcomed and encouraged the flow of migrants to fill labor needs. Businesses and nonprofits also seem to be a key reason for a migrant influx in Charleroi, Pennsylvania.
It&#8217;s estimated that about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-ohio-town-overrun-by-haitian-immigrants">20,000 Haitian migrants</a> over the past few years have moved into Springfield, which had a population of just 60,000 people. Charleroi has seen a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/charleroi-school-district-immigrant-students/#">2,000% increase</a> in its immigration population.
Residents and officials from the towns say there’s been an increase in traffic violations and car accidents, resources at schools and local law enforcement are strained, housing has become more scarce, and residents are struggling overall with the lack of assimilation from the newcomers.

MEXICO-US-HAITI-MIGRATION

Another Midwestern Town Inundated With Haitian Migrants

Biden Administration

Haitians

Illegal Immigration

Ohio

Opening statements have been made in the trial of Richard Allen, who is accused of killing two teenage girls on a Delphi, Indiana, hiking trail back in 2017.
Richard Allen, 50, is charged with the kidnapping and murder of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German. Prosecutors, in their opening statements, alleged that Allen is the man seen in a video taken by Libby telling the girls to go “down the hill.”
The video was recorded as the girls crossed the Monon High Bridge. Their bodies were found nearby the day after they went missing.
Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland said during opening statements on Friday that Allen forced the girls down the hill by gunpoint. He described the crime scene to the jury.
&#8220;You&#8217;re going to see the crime scene,&#8221; he said, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/delphi-double-murder-trial-opening-statements/story?id=114932863" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to ABC News</a>. &#8220;It was a gruesome scene. Libby was completely naked. Her throat was cut, blood all over. Abby&#8217;s throat was also cut.&#8221;
Defense attorney Andrew Baldwin argued that the state’s investigation was botched and that cell phone evidence shows Allen couldn’t have been the one to kill the girls. Baldwin said the prosecution claimed the girls were killed by 4 p.m. on February 13, 2017, and their bodies were not moved prior to their discovery the next day. Allen, who admitted to being on the trail the day the girls were killed, left the area by 2:15 p.m., according to his legal team citing phone records.
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The prosecution also claims an unspent bullet found at the crime scene came from Allen’s gun, but the round is commonly used by law enforcement, and no officer’s gun was tested in connection to the case. The idea that a mass-produced bullet cycled through a mass-produced gun could create a unique marking is also dubious, according to Stephen Gutowski, a certified firearms instructor and reporter who founded The Reload.
“The forensic techniques used by crime labs to match specific guns to specific bullets have come under heavy scrutiny in recent years,” Gutowski <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unsealed-probable-cause-affidavit-explains-how-police-linked-richard-allen-to-2017-delphi-murders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire in 2022. “So, I think it’s important to examine claims like this with a healthy dose of skepticism. The idea you could match a mark on the rim of a casing to a specific gun’s extractor seems dubious to me.”
“I could see an argument that an extractor on a certain model of gun could leave a unique marking on an unspent round if the round were cycled through the firearm since the extractor may have dimensions that are different from other firearms,” he added. “However, the Sig Sauer P226 has been an incredibly popular firearm for decades, and it’s unlikely the mass-produced extractors included on each pistol would leave a marking that’s obviously distinguishable from another P226.”
After his arrest, Allen admitted to the murders, but his defense <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/delphi-murder-suspect-allegedly-confessed-to-murdering-teen-girls-defense-says-confessions-cant-be-trusted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has argued</a> that his mental health declined in prison and the confessions can’t be trusted.

Murder Trial Begins For Delphi Man Accused Of Killing Two Teenage Girls

An Indiana prison must provide transgender surgery to an inmate convicted of killing a baby, a federal judge ruled last week.
Jonathan C. Richardson, 42, who now identifies as female and goes by Autumn Cordellionè, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aclu-demands-gender-surgery-for-trans-identifying-male-who-murdered-baby">convicted</a> in 2001 of fatally strangling his 11-month-old stepdaughter. He is currently serving 55 years behind bars for reckless homicide.
In August of last year, the American Civil Liberties Union <a href="https://www.aclu-in.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/cord-complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the Indiana Department of Corrections on behalf of Cordellioné, demanding the prison system pay for his transgender genital surgery.
An Indiana law that took effect last year prevents taxpayer dollars from going toward transgender surgeries for prison inmates. The ACLU argued the law violates the Constitution&#8217;s ban on &#8220;cruel and unusual punishment&#8221; because the surgery is a &#8220;medical necessity&#8221; for Cordellioné.
Last week, United States District Court Judge Richard Young sided with the ACLU and handed Cordellioné a win.
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&#8220;Specifically, Ms. Cordellioné has shown that her gender dysphoria is a serious medical need, and that, despite other treatments Defendant has provided her to treat her gender dysphoria, she requires gender-affirming surgery to prevent a risk of serious bodily and psychological harm,&#8221; the judge wrote in his ruling.
The state corrections department must now take &#8220;all reasonable actions&#8221; to provide Cordellioné with transgender genital surgery.
Indiana&#8217;s Republican attorney general, Todd Rokita, promised to appeal the judge&#8217;s ruling.
&#8220;An Indiana inmate convicted of murder wants our taxpayers to fund their gender-altering surgery! Hoosiers do NOT want this. We&#8217;re still reviewing the court&#8217;s opinion, but you can undoubtedly expect our office to appeal this decision,&#8221; Rokita <a href="https://x.com/AGToddRokita/status/1836837830850478101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X.
Cordellioné also identifies as a Muslim woman and previously <a href="https://reduxx.info/transgender-muslim-inmate-serving-55-year-sentence-for-killing-a-baby-launches-discrimination-lawsuit-after-being-denied-a-hijab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the Chaplain at his prison after he was allegedly denied a hijab.
Cordellioné&#8217;s baby stepdaughter&#8217;s autopsy showed she had been manually strangled to death while her mother was at work, according to <a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/in-court-of-appeals/1287327.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court documents</a>. He told detectives that he also shook the child “in a rough manner,” the appeal documents said.
At one point while he was incarcerated, Richardson told corrections officers, “Well all I know is I killed the little f***ing bitch.”
Cordellioné began identifying as a female around 2020 while in prison. He was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and has been taking female hormones and a testosterone blocker since then, according to court documents.
He has been able to obtain “panties, make up, and form fitting clothing” in prison, but he continues to experience &#8220;serious depression and anxiety&#8221; caused by his &#8220;recognition that she is a woman trapped in a man’s body,&#8221; documents say.
The ACLU said that trans-identifying men who cannot get transgender genital surgery may try to castrate themselves to &#8220;alleviate their distress.&#8221;
Cordellioné has attempted suicide and engaged in self-harm, the lawsuit claims.
His earliest possible release date is August, 2026.
Trans-identifying male inmates have caused a number of challenges for prisons in recent years.
Cordellioné is far from the first prison inmate to demand sex reassignment surgery. The ACLU has <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/federal-court-orders-first-gender-affirming-surgery-trans-prisoner-rcna25377" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> successfully on behalf of other inmates demanding this procedure.
Other inmates have <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/06/01/1179301244/minnesota-settlement-lawsuit-transgender-inmate-christina-lusk-prison#:~:text=Pop%20Culture-,Trans%20inmate%20to%20move%20to%20women's%20prison%20after%20settling%20lawsuit,access%20to%20gender%2Daffirming%20care." target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-triple-murderer-sent-to-womens-prison">successfully</a> to be transferred to women&#8217;s prisons, resulting in them living alongside biologically female inmates. This has sparked <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/man-posing-as-transgender-woman-raped-female-prisoner-at-rikers-lawsuit-says/5067904/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuits</a> from women inmates accusing trans-identifying men of sexually abusing and even raping them.

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