Stories from Saturday, January 24, 2009

A driver trying to avoid hitting a deer on a country road around midnight in Richland Township ended up off the side of the road upside down. Twenty-year-old Jacob Carmichael of rural Bloomfield was headed east in a black 2004 Pontiac Grand Am on County Road 200N east of State Road 157 when the accident occurred...

SWITZ CITY -- The White River Valley boys basketball team capped off a perfect weekend by defeating Sullivan 64-60 here Saturday night. Jacob Birch and Jared Shelton combined to score 36 points for the Wolverines. Birch scored 11 of his game-high 21 points in the final eight minutes of play, including a 7-for-8 effort at the charity stripe to help seal the win...

Siera Fuller's short jumper in the lane with six seconds to play lifted Bloomfield to a 45-44 victory over Clay City Saturday in a Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference girls basketball game at Glover Gymnasium. Fuller paced the winners with 22 points, four steals, four assists and four rebounds...

Loogootee outscored Linton-Stockton 29-4 from the foul line as the host Lady Lions defeated the Lady Miners 60-39 in a high school girls basketball game Saturday afternoon. Savannah Mason hit two 3-pointers and finished with 15 points to top the Lady Miners...