Stories from Friday, October 5, 2018

Our Pet of the Week this week is Roxanne. Roxanne is a 2-3-year-old domestic shorthair tabby. Roxanne is spayed, current on shots and has a current rabies tag. The staff at the Greene County Humane Society said Roxanne has resided at the Humane Society since May, and is beginning to show signs of depression from being there so long. ...

The internet and social media have forever changed how we get our information, but it will not change our respect to investigations and the families involved in those investigations. In the age of social media, we want all the information right now. It’s literally at our fingertips, so why shouldn’t we get exactly what we want exactly when we want it?...

Warrick County – Thursday morning at approximately 10:10 a.m., Trooper John Davis was contacted by an individual that had been contacted by another individual via Facebook Messenger about purchasing a quarter gram of meth for $400. According to a news release from the Indiana State Police, after communicating with Trooper Davis, the individual agreed to purchase the meth to assist law enforcement and set up a location for the transaction. ...

BLOOMINGTON – As a part of this overarching strategy, Regional Opportunity Initiatives (ROI) is rolling out the Ready Communities Initiative, which will offer grant funding opportunities across the 11 counties of the Indiana Uplands. The Ready Communities Initiative will provide counties and communities the resources necessary to strategically plan for, develop, and implement projects and programs that build quality of place, grow regional capacity for workforce development and attraction, and improve the attributes and amenities that make the Indiana Uplands a desirable place to live, work and play.. ...

Nurses at Greene County General Hospital are being honored with the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform every day. Employees outside of nursing staff are also being honored with the PETAL Award for exceptional service...

Community Notes Saturday, October 6 Wright Township, Jasonville, and Lewis Fire Departments will hold their annual safety fair in the Shakamak Jr/Sr High School parking lot, as well as a free dinner of Ham and beans, cornbread, hot dogs, chips, cookies and drinks. Both events are free to all. There will also be a clown that makes balloons, as well as an escape house, and safety materials will be available for kids...

The Greene County Sheriff’s Department responded to 90 incidents and calls for service from Oct. 1 to Oct. 4, including nine property damage accidents, four personal injury accidents, two alarms, three animal complaints, three assists to other departments, six assists to the public, one battery, one burglary, two civil disputes, one civil paper service, two criminal mischief, three domestic disputes, two EMS, one harassment, one juvenile complaint, one property, one missing person, three reckless drivers, one residential entry, one road hazard, one sex offense, one shooting complaint, one attempted suicide, five suspicious, seven thefts, three threats, one title check, four traffic stops, 14 transports, three trespass and two unruly subjects.. ...

The Linton Police Department responded to 17 incidents and calls for service Oct. 4, including one property damage accident, one bank/residential alarm, one animal complaint, one assist to other departments, one assist to the public, two extra patrols, four fingerprintings, one property, one parole violation, two suspicious and two thefts...

Court News CRIMINAL CASES Jared T. Turner, 24, Linton, Level 1 felony attempt to commit murder; Level 6 felony pointing a firearm at another person; Class A misdemeanor theft; Class C misdemeanor operating a motor vehicle with a schedule I or II controlled substance in person’s body; Class B misdemeanor false informing...