Stories from Friday, April 9, 2010

Stable healthcare requires permanent Medicare fix To the Editor: The Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) and its 8,000 physician members believe if Congress and President Obama truly want to change our nation's health care system, they should fix Medicare first. It's not too late to give the elderly, disabled and military the secure, stable health care they deserve...

Mark your calendar for an upcoming fundraiser that will serve up some fun as well as benefit a local family. The benefit is slated for April 24 at the Eastern Greene Elementary School cafeteria. All proceeds from the event go to the Larry and Libby Strange family and will be used for medical bills...

The three Jasonville men arrested a week ago after they ran into an off-duty police officer hunting mushrooms have all been in court this week and have been charged with two class B felonies apiece. Stephen C. Wood, 35, Michael A. O'Banion, 24, and David I. Johnson, 30, were all taken into custody by Jasonville Police Officer Ryan Van Horn on Thursday night, April 1...

Linton Mayor Tom Jones is encouraging everyone to fill out their U.S. Census forms. "We're going to have a competition between Linton and Bedford. ... It's a mayor's challenge," Jones said in an interview with the Greene County Daily World on Wednesday...

Rural Linton resident Tom Fisher loves the outdoors and says he doesn't mind one bit that his property is surrounded on all four sides by Greene-Sullivan State Forest. Fisher, who lives along County Road 1600W -- near Airline Lake, was among the guests who attended an open house staged Thursday at the state forest office...

A Linton man now faces an alleged disorderly conduct charge after getting his vehicle stuck in the mud, catching it on fire and then screaming profanities at local police officers. Gary R. Cross, 23, was arrested around 1 a.m. on Friday by Linton Patrol Office Debbie McDonald and transferred to the Greene County Jail where he is being held on $1,000 bond...

A 48-year-old Elnora man, Gregg Alan Goodheart, was arrested Thursday evening in Linton after he allegedly became physically aggressive toward a child services caseworker, was screaming and yelling obscenities and refused to leave the area. He then got into a struggle with several officers and ended up in the Greene County Jail, accused of battery upon a law enforcement officer resulting in bodily injury...

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT JAIL LOG...

LINTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ACTIVITY LOG The Linton Police Department's activity log for Thursday included one request for information only, one incident of vandalism, one custody dispute/exchange, one structure fire, two fires involving a vehicle, one accident with personal injury, one lost and found, two medical/illness, one assist to another agency, one theft-other and two traffic stops...

GREENE CIRCUIT COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Michael D. O'Banion, attempted dealing in methamphetamine, conspiracy to commit dealing in methamphetamine State v. David I. Johnson, attempted dealing in methamphetamine, conspiracy to commit dealing in methamphetamine...

ELNORA -- The road has proven to be anything but kind to the Shakamak Lakers early in the 2010 high school baseball season. For the second time in as many tries the Lakers allowed four runs to their hosts on the way to a loss. On Monday it was a 4-3 setback at Terre Haute North and on Friday night it was the North Daviess Cougars handing Shakamak a 4-1 setback -- and to make matters just a little worse, it was the Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference opener for the Lakers who are now 1-2 on the year.. ...

After having their first two games of the year canceled, the White River Valley Wolverines finally got on the baseball diamond. And despite a surprisingly good pitching performance from freshman Ethan Sparks, the Wolverines fell 3-2 at South Knox Friday night...

Visiting Casey-Westfield, Ill. handed Shakamak a 14-7 loss in a non-conference girls softball game Friday at Jasonville. "I thought Casey was a real good team," Shakamak coach Brent Anderson said. "And I think it's good for us to play a team that can put pressure on us throughout the game."...

The Eastern Greene High School girls track and field team pushed its record to 4-0 after picking up three wins at home Friday night. The Lady Thunderbirds had a winning total of 99 points. Bloomfield was second with 89 points, Loogootee 32 and Lighthouse Christian of Bloomington scored seven...