Stories from Thursday, May 21, 2009

A pair of warrants has been issued for the arrest of a couple accused of stealing a package of diapers from the Dollar General Store in Linton. The warrant for Michael J. Baker, 29, Linton, will be easy to serve -- he's already in jail. The other warrant is for Shanna L. Richardson of Linton...

Look for a talented line-up of entertainment for this year's An Evening With Roy Clark and Friends show -- which is slated for May 30 at 7 p.m. in the Linton-Stockton High School gym. Justin David, Johnny Lee, Jan Howard, Jerry Chestnut, Ronnie Prophet, Mike Behymer, Mickey Jones and Kevin King will return along with hometown favorite Holly Lynn...

Several hundred Greene County and area students will formally complete their high school days and move on to new chapters in their respective lives Saturday. Commencement exercises will be conducted at the five Greene County high schools and neighboring Union High School in Dugger...

JASONVILLE -- "What do you want to be when you grow up?" was the question for Shakamak sixth graders during a career fair Thursday. Several students heard presentations from a variety of local folks who have careers in the medical field, law, banking, law enforcement, media, independent consulting, and politics among others...

It was planting in the park for some local fourth graders who enjoyed the last days of school outdoors in the sun. As a part of a class project, students in Jennifer Wall's Linton-Stockton Elementary School spent time Wednesday at Humphreys Park creating a butterfly garden and making mosaic stepping stones...

Classes at CLC Wednesday will be the last day to register for Vincennes University summer classes at the Community Learning Center of Greene County. The classes -- Math 101 Intermediate Algebra Tuesday/Thursday 6-8:50 p.m.; Math 102 College Algebra Monday/Wednesday 6:30-9:15 p.m.; Math 104 Trigonometry Monday/Wednesday 3-5:45 p.m.; PFWL 100 Lifetime Fitness Tuesday/Thursday 6-8:50 p.m.; ENGL 101 English Comp I Monday/Wednesday 6-8:50 pm; ENGL 102 English Comp II Tuesday/Thursday 6-8:50 p.m.; SPCH 143 Speech Monday/Wednesday 6-8:50 p.m. ...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG...

LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Wednesday included one fight, one assist to the utility department after hours, one incident of vandalism, one animal cruelty, two accidents with property damage, two lost and found, two medical/illness, two animal complaints, one assist to another agency, one possibly intoxicated driver, two thefts-other, one domestic dispute and five traffic stops...

GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Michael J. Baker, theft State v. Shanna L. Richardson, theft State v. Robert D. Cohron, hunting wild turkey with the aid of bait State v. Leroy Sexton, hunting wild turkey with the aid of bait State v. Matthew D. Cohron, hunting wild turkey with the aid of bait...

SWITZ CITY -- White River Valley Assistant Principal Jim Fuller will stop pulling double-duty as both an assistant principal and athletic director and will be able to focus on being just an assistant principal starting June 1. The change in Fuller's duties was approved by the WRV School Board during its regular monthly meeting Thursday evening at the high school...

Linton-Stockton scored the only runs of the game in the first inning as they finished the regular season with an eleven-game winning streak with a 2-0 victory on the road over Loogootee in a non-conference high school softball game. Stephanie Fougerousse knocked home Savannah Mason with a single before Taneal Church singled home Britney Rehmel (courtesy runner for Fougerousse) to account for the lone runs of the contest...

DUGGER -- Shakamak pounded out 14 hits off of three different Union (Dugger) hurlers as they came away with a dual conference win, 19-4, over the Bulldogs Thursday afternoon in high school softball action. The Lady Lakers scored in all five innings before the game was halted by the 10-run mercy rule. Shakamak tagged Bulldogs starting pitcher Megan Gambill for five runs in the first inning and two more in the second...

Ty Robbins of White River Valley finished fifth in the finals of the 400 meter race at the Bloomington North boys track and field sectional Thursday night. But because of scratches by Bloomington North and South in that event, Robbins will be running at the regional on May 28, also at North...

Vincennes Rivet scored five runs in its final three at bats as the visiting Patriots defeated Eastern Greene 8-6 in a high school baseball Thursday. "Our struggles continue," Eastern Greene coach Trevor McConnell said after dropping to 5-16. "We are playing better, but I think we just ran out of pitching tonight."...

TERRE HAUTE -- Greene County will have three representatives in four events at next week's track and field regional at Evansville Central. Shakamak's Drew Gambill and James Marlow had record-setting nights and Linton-Stockton junior Stefan Sparks qualified in two events at the Terre Haute North Sectional here Thursday night...

MITCHELL -- Bart Berns has been waiting for a game like his Linton-Stockton High School Miners played Thursday night at Mitchell. The Miners were behind 11-7 going into the top of the seventh inning, but rallied for five runs to pull out a 12-11 baseball victory...