State and Local News

Five of the seven members of the Indiana House and Senate that represent Grant County will be on hand Saturday for the first of this year’s “Third House” sessions that are put on by the ...Read more

If Indiana lifts the ban on Sunday alcohol sales, it looks like the hours for it will be from noon to 8 p-m. A special commission reviewing Indiana’s alcohol laws is recommending those hours, ...Read more

The head of the Muncie Teachers Association is expressing doubts about the proposal to allow Ball State University to take over Muncie Schools, especially the power to appoint the majority of the ...Read more

The Muncie Mission has opened its first transitional house for men who have graduated from the Mission’s recovery program. The home is located across the street from the Mission on South Liberty ...Read more

An Illinois man already in jail in Kokomo in connection with an armed robbery in October now faces an additional robbery charge for a holdup in September. 20-year old Ferrell King of suburban ...Read more

Despite Grant County’s current financial woes, the County Council last night approved hiring two new Deputy Prosecutors. County Prosecutor Jim Luttrull Junior requested filling the ...Read more

A judge has denied a motion that would have allowed the former financial advisory group for the city of Marion to be freed from the city’s ongoing lawsuit over renovations to the old Grant County ...Read more

You’ll still have to buy beer at a liquor store if you want to buy it cold in Indiana. After three hours of committee testimony yesterday, only one of 10 senators supported expanding cold ...Read more

Investigators say more than eight-thousand doses of a frequently abused pain medication are missing from an Indiana prison. Officials at the New Castle Correctional Facility discovered more than ...Read more

Ball State University officials want to take control of the struggling Muncie School system. A bill being considered by the House Ways and Means Committee would turn control of Muncie schools over ...Read more