State and Local News

Yesterday marked another significant landmark in the life of one of Howard County’s oldest churches. St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Kokomo was founded in 1859, just four years after the city ...Read more

Marion Police officers are relieved, but yet not satisfied over the arrests of three persons in connection with four local murders in the past three months. Marion Police Wednesday announced the ...Read more

A cellphone video taken by a Marion High School student has gone viral, but for all the wrong reasons. The video…which was released by a concerned parent…shows the inside of a classroom ...Read more

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