State and Local News

Unemployment in the Grant County area rose in January, though the rate is still low. Grant County’s jobless rate in January was 4.6-percent…as were those in Howard, Miami and Madison ...Read more

Indiana Wesleyan and Taylor Universities will co-host more than a hundred area high school students Thursday as part of their annual “Math Day” activities. I-W-U will actually host the event ...Read more

Eastbrook South Elementary in Upland will be back in session today after a high rate of flu caused the school to be closed Tuesday. Nearly one-third of the students at Eastbrook South were absent ...Read more

Three people now face charges in connection with the death of a dog in late 2017, which was left chained outside in sub-zero temperatures near downtown Marion. The dog was found chained inside a ...Read more

People who are wrongly convicted of a crime and go to prison in Indiana could be paid by the state for every year they were in prison, under a bill that passed the Indiana House. The proposed law, ...Read more

An Indianapolis man and one from Fort Wayne have been charged with last year’s murder of another Indianapolis man whose body was found in Wabash County. Indiana State Police say the body of ...Read more

Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will hold a tailgate food giveaway Thursday morning in the east parking lot of the Muncie Mall. Needy Delaware County residents can pick up free ...Read more

Indiana State Police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint somewhere in Delaware County Friday night in conjunction with the Operation Pull Over, “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign which is ...Read more

The deadline to register for the Chamber Champions luncheon of the Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce is near. The Chamber Champions luncheon is next Wednesday, March 20th at the Horizon ...Read more

Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight will be traveling to the suburbs of Chicago next week to take part in a panel discussion on reviving the Midwest economy. Mayor Goodnight will be part of a panel that ...Read more