Stories from Wednesday, November 27, 2013

A crash that occurred just after 6:30 PM, six miles west of Bloomington has claimed the life of a Bloomington man. Eric Lach, 35 was pronounced dead at IU Health Bloomington Hospital following the crash. Family has been notified. While Lach was driving his 1995 Ford four door northbound on State Road 45 near Breeden Road, his vehicle drove left of center, striking a southbound 2005 GMC Sports Utility Vehicle in its front left (driver's side) and continued northbound in the southbound lanes...

Staff Writer Sabrina Westfall sat down with representatives from Greene County General Hospital Tuesday evening. They discussed hospital improvement, work in the community and general health tips. To view the video, click the link, and visit Live Talk: http://www.inkbarreltv.com/inkbarrelCMS/......

Administrators aren't the only ones getting work done at White River Valley Junior/Senior High School these days. WRV student Buddy Davis recently created a plan and brought together help from the school and the community to relocate and upgrade the school's discus and shot-put rings...

Spiraling medical expenses have been oozing deeply into the wounds of the Greene County Sheriff's Department budget like an rampant infection over the past few years. However, in the last seven months there has been some relief. The ointment on this road to budgetary healing is the use of a new state law that allows the county to pay only a percentage of the allowable Medicare cost for inmate health care services...

Nov. 26 -- Daniel A A McLean, 30, Bloomfield, was arrested on a warrant for an alleged failure to appear. His bond was set at $5,000 surety with ten percent allowed. His bond was paid - $500 cash. Nov. 26 -- Dustin R. Saylor, 29, Bloomington, was arrested on a warrant/s issued for alleged failure to appear in two cases. His bond was set $2,000 cash only...

The Linton Police Department's activity log for Tuesday, Nov. 26 included one assist to the utility department after hours, one structure fire, one lost and found, one medical run, four harassment complaints, two extra patrols, one theft, one ordinance violation and three traffic stops...

SHOALS -- White River Valley limited Shoals to 25 percent shooting in the second half as the visiting Wolverines pulled away for a 72-35 victory in a non-conference high school boys basketball game over the host Jug Rox here Wednesday night. It was the season-opener for both squads...

BLOOMFIELD -- The Bloomfield Lady Cardinals proved to be more than the Union Lady Bulldogs could handle. Marisa McIntosh snuck in a quiet 14 points as the Lady Cardinals inched closer to the .500 mark with a 56-29 win here Wednesday night in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference high school girls basketball game...

BLOOMFIELD -- Kyle Van Sant drained a game-high 15 points, hauled in 14 rebounds and threw in four blocked shots to lead Bloomfield past visiting Union 50-33 here Wednesday night. It was the season and Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference opener for both teams...

It's not that Linton-Stockton boys basketball coach Joey Hart doesn't know what he has coming back -- it's more about when. "It's becoming standard operating procedure here," Hart said lightheatedly. "To be honest, I'd just as soon see them play at Lucas Oil Stadium and us start on Dec. 20 against Shakamak...

Less than a day after co-defendant Jordan Buskirk's agreement to plead guilty on all counts to the murder of Katelyn Wolfe was filed in Greene Superior Court, a motion for a continuance was filed in the case of Randal Crosley. Crosley, 25, and Buskirk, 26, both from Jasonville, were both charged, in separate cases, with Wolfe's murder...