Stories from Sunday, March 8, 2015

An ongoing investigation into the stabbing death of D.J. Lockhart on Thursday, February 12 in Bloomfield has come to an end and Greene County Prosecutor Jarrod Holtsclaw says after reviewing the results of the investigation and discussing the case with Indiana State Police detectives, no criminal charges will be filed against the man who stabbed Lockhart, who justifiably acted in self-defense...

As the first break of warm weather encompassed Linton on Saturday, March 7, people from around the region visited Humphreys Park to experience the final event day for the Marsh Madness Sandhill Crane Festival. The festival was presented by the Friends of Goose Pond organization, with financial support from Peabody Energy, Linton McDonalds and Crane Federal Credit Union...

A 23-year-old Bloomfield woman, Kristen Hostetter, was injured in a Sunday morning crash on the Pennyrile Parkway in Western Kentucky that killed a Jasper woman and injured four others. Kentucky State Police investigated the crash that occurred before noon Sunday involving a single vehicle...

STATEHOUSE - State Rep. Gregory W. Porter, Ranking Democrat on the House Ways & Means Committee, last week issued the following column to newspapers statewide: The ink had barely dried on the biennial state budget approved by the Indiana House Republican supermajority when it was discovered that the school funding formula that the budget supposedly had "fixed" hadn't been fixed at all...