Stories from Tuesday, April 3, 2012

A Seymour woman, who formerly lived in the Springville area, is back in jail following her arrest Monday on a petition to revoke a suspended sentence. Tammy S. Bowling, 41, is being held without bond pending a court appearance. A court appearance had not been scheduled as of Tuesday morning in Greene Circuit Court...

The Morgan County man charged in connection with a serious traffic accident in southern Greene County last October that injured four individuals ---- including himself ---- has returned to jail after his bond was revoked Monday in Greene Superior Court...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT Civil Filings Asset Acceptance LLC vs. Joseph Cunningham, civil collection. GE Capital Retail Bank vs. Franki Myers, civil collection. Angela Chambers and Michael Cole, domestic relation. Criminal Filings State vs. Jason M. Hays, two counts of dealing methamphetamine-manufacture; possession of methamphetamine; possession of a Schedule I, II, III or IV controlled substance...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department log for April 2 included: One vandalism case; one drug investigation; one animal complaint; one suspicious person/vehicle; two harassment complaints; one theft case; one vehicle theft; one domestic dispute; one battery case; and one traffic stop...

A Linton man was arrested for drunk driving and leaving the scene of a traffic accident early Tuesday morning. Jesse L. Hampton, 53, who lives on SW Third Street, was booked into the Greene County Jail after he allegedly struck a parked van with a pickup, drove through the front yard and hit a porch pillar in front of residence at 369 NE Fourth Street about 1:20 a.m., according to a report from Linton City Police Department Officer Thomas Jerrells...

Approximately 450 Greene County students spent Tuesday learning the realities of financial responsibility at the Reality Store at the 4-H Fairgrounds. Students picked an occupation, were given an annual salary and had to make their way through booths representing real life decisions they will have to make as adults...

Edna M. (Pruett) Feutz, 79, of Bloomfeld, passed away Monday, April 2, 2012 at Greene County General Hospital in Linton. Born May 4, 1932 in Greene County, she was the daughter of Emory and Ramona (Spelts) Pruett. Edna worked at RCA in Bloomington for 25 years as a group leader and helped her husband Olaf on the farm and care for Grandview Cemetery...

Host North Daviess edged Eastern Greene 199-203 in a high school boys golf match at Crane Tuesday. It was the season-opener for the Thunderbirds. Landon Miller paced Eastern Greene with a 43. Landon Corps shot 51, Casey Rugenstein 53, Jeff Bailey 56, Blade Burris 58 and Carter Divine had a 68 to round out the varsity top six...

The Shakamak Lady Lakers collected their third win in four tries while spoiling the coaching debut of White River Valley softball coach Matt Hockman with a 3-1 win at Switz City. The game also marked the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference opener for both teams...

BLOOMFIELD -- Sophomore Nicole Hughes notched her second win in as many tries from the pitching circle for the Bloomfield Lady Cardinals -- and did it with style. The flame throwing right-hander allowed just four base runners on her way to fanning 15 Loogootee Lady Lions in a 3-0 win in BHS's home opener...

After losing games to host Bedford North Lawrence and a suspended game to Edgewood on Saturday, the Eastern Greene Lady Thunderbirds fell 10-5 to New Washington in their finale during the BNL Softball Invitational. "With the 2 losses, we ended up facing New Washington, this game was the same story for us to a degree -- one inning syndrome," Eastern Greene coach Gina Ingram said. ...

South Knox spoiled the high school coaching debut of Chriss Jobe. The host Lady Spartans defeated Jobe's Union Lady Bulldogs 10-0 in five innings in a softball game Tuesday. "We played like it was our first game," said Jobe. "We have a very young team and the girls were a little nervous...

The Bloomfield Cardinals fell to 0-4 on the year after a 7-6 loss at Owen Valley in nine innings. Zaq Query pounded out three hits for Bloomfield who also took advantage of three Owen Valley errors. "Tonight was a good game, a good game for us," Bloomfield coach Jason Pegg said. "It was good for both teams. Our kids now have a good idea what it takes to win the close games...

Linton-Stockton began the 2012 girls tennis season started out with a loss but I was really pleased with our girls' effort. With this just being our first match of the year I saw a lot of positive plays out of all the girls. The two wins came at No. 2 singles by Mercedes Shafford and the No. 1 doubles team consisting of Kayla Drogich and Natalie Swihart. The one doubles team jumped out fast and never really let up...

Indiana 8th District Congressman Larry Bucshon (R) knows his way around a hospital and operating room and says a critical care medical facility like Greene County General Hospital in Linton is essential to keep operating to benefit the entire community...