State and Local News

A nationwide bio-solids management company plans to invest more than seven-million dollars to expand its’facility in Howard County and create 25 jobs. Merrell Brothers will receive state tax ...Read more

The ongoing partial federal government shutdown caused the Kokomo Public Library to cancel an event involving students this week. The library had to cancel its’ “Out of This World Space Talk ...Read more

A longtime Delaware County financial institution has been honored by a nationwide publican. “Forbes” Magazine has named First Merchants Bank high on its’ list of “America’s Best ...Read more

The Superintendent of Elwood Community Schools has admitted to committing insurance fraud…to get medication for a sick student. Casey Smitherman took a 15-year-old student with a sore throat ...Read more

Tyler Trent will be able to do good for years to come. Officials with the Purdue Cancer Center yesterday said that an endowment in Trent’s name has now raised one-million dollars for cancer ...Read more

Marion Police say two South Bend men and a Marion woman have been charged in connection with at least four local murders and an armed robbery, and they may be responsible for other unsolved ...Read more

Firefighters from several Grant County fire departments battled a stubborn blaze inside a large barn east of Gas City early today. Firefighters from Mill Township, Gas City, Fairmount, Center ...Read more

A Marion man has been arrested by police in Anderson in connection the killing of an Anderson man last summer. Anderson Police yesterday arrested 30-year-old Ronald Williams Junior of Marion and ...Read more

Unemployment in the area apparently “spiked” in November, but settled down last month according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. After November figures put Howard County near ...Read more