Stories from Friday, February 19, 2016

The Linton Civitan club held a banquet Thursday evening to honor the area's clergy in conjunction with Clergy Appreciation Week. Civitan President Debbie Moore gave a welcoming speech, followed by an opening prayer with chaplain Nick Moore. Jim Meng gave a speech to explain the meaning of Clergy Appreciation Week, and told the story of the four heroic and selfless chaplains on board the U.S.A.T. ...

Daniel Allen Wilson, 30, Linton, was arrested on a warrant for failure to register as a sex offender and failure to register as a sex offender with a prior conviction. Bond set at $10,000. John Wayne Keller Jr., 49, Linton, was arrested on a preliminary charge of operating a vehicle with a life suspension. No bond set...

In conjunction with Worthington's Tri Kappa Week as well as Tri Kappa Art Month, Worthington Tri Kappa members visited with fellow member Debbie Nolting's second grade class on Friday to make birthday cards for hospice patients. The kids were excited to begin and dug into the project with glee. Tri Kappa members offered the kids a choice of cards featuring owls, cupcakes, sailboats or birthday cake, which they could then sign and decorate with sparkles and stickers...

Benjamin Franklin Thompson, 83, of Dugger, passed away Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. He was born Jan. 24, 1933 in Vincennes to Thomas Henry and Mary Nancy Snyder Thompson. Benjamin was a Korean War Army Veteran, retired from General Electric in Linton, was a member of the Dugger American Legion Post224, and a member of the Church of Christ in Dugger...

The missing teen has been located according to the JPD. The Jasonville Police Department is attempting to locate a runaway juvenile. According to department's Facebook page, 17-year-old Matthew Lee Cornelius is considered a runaway and may be in the company of his girlfriend, Bridgette Bowersock. Cornelius is described as 5 feet 10 inches with blonde hair and blue eyes. He has been missing since Wednesday, Feb. 17...

Maryruth Kramer, age 94, of Tennessee, formerly of Linton, passed away on Thursday evening, Feb. 18, 2016, at her son's residence in Morristown, Tennessee. She was born in Bloomfield on June 14, 1921, the daughter of Samuel A. and Bonnie (Workman) Terrell...

Friday night was one of those night's White River Valley coach Joe Pigg would just as soon forget. North Daviess outscored the Wolverines 37-10 during the second and third quarters to turn a close game into a rout. The Cougars dismantled their visitors from White River Valley 56-22...

Linton-Stockton dialed up long distance early and often Friday night in Farmerburg. The visiting Miners connected on 12 three-pointers in a 82-46 thrashing of the Thunderbirds. "We shot the ball extremely well tonight," Miners assistant coach Noah Hawkins said. "We controlled the tempo and played at the pace we wanted to but we also got good looks at the basket all night. Seemed like all our guys were in rhythm all night."...

Bloomfield went on a second-quarter tear Friday against visiting North Knox, scoring 16 of the last 18 points to close out the opening 16 minutes. The Cardinals kept pushing the tempo in the third quarter and ran away from the Warriors, 88-52 at Guy Glover Gymnasium...

One day in November 2011, Leah Gray had simply had enough. She had fallen into a sedentary lifestyle and she wasn't happy. A professional food server by trade, Gray said "I would come home from work, plant myself on the couch and start scanning through Netflix. At my heaviest I was about 230, nearly 240 and I just got tired of being fat...