Stories from Wednesday, September 29, 2010

A Bloomington man was arrested Tuesday night for driving while intoxicated following a wreck near Lyons. Johnny Duncan, 42, was traveling south on County Road 900W, south of County Road 450S, when his 1994 Chevrolet pickup left the roadway and struck a utility pole owned by Utilities District of Western Indiana REMC, then flipped in a ditch...

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announced Tuesday the awarding of two additional contracts for Interstate 69 (I-69) Corridor in southwest Indiana. Fred Weber, Inc. was the low bid for the $83.9 million contract for the final two segments of Section 3 in Daviess and Greene counties...

Linton's second Fall Festival is slated for Oct. 16 with a new downtown location. The fest will be on North Main to B St. from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and will be followed by a street dance and car cruise-in -- which are being sponsored by Francis Jewel Box...

A civil lawsuit filed by a former Bloomfield United Methodist Church minister remains in Marion Superior Court nearly two years since it was first filed. The Rev. Lynn Snyder filed the suit Oct. 23, 2008 against the Indiana Area Foundation of the United Methodist Church, Inc. dba United Methodist Church, Bishop Michael Coyner, Ann Glass and Robert Ostermeier...

Keepsake ornament collectors strolling around the Bloomfield Apple Festival this weekend will find something special at the Greene County CASA Voices for Kids stand. The stand will be located on the hill in the southeast corner of the Bloomfield Park...

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The Linton Police Department's activity log for Tuesday included two requests for information, one for lifting assistance, one utility repair detail, one property dispute, one public intoxication, three medical/illness, one alarm, one animal complaint, one suspicious vehicle/person, one assist to another agency, one extra patrol, one disabled or stranded vehicle, one arrest-wanted on warrant and one vehicle/property recovered...

GREENE SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL CASES State v. Shanna L. Richardson, receiving stolen property, false informing State v. Michael J. Baker, receiving stolen property CIVIL CASES Capitol One Bank v. Robert A. McBride, collection Beneficial Indiana v. Steven E. Romine and MainSource Bank, mortgage foreclosure...

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WORTHINGTON -- Town Marshal Dennis Conaway of the Worthington Police Department says the manufacturing of methamphetamine in clandestine labs has been a problem for some time but now officers are running into yet another safety hazard connected to methamphetamine and the public needs to know about it...

White River Valley Junior High School's Lexi Graves established a new school record during the girls race in a dual meet with Clay City Monday at Switz City. Graves' time of 12 minutes and 18 seconds on the WRV course, surpassed the old standard of 12:21 set last year by Briauna George-Fisher...

The Linton-Stockton High School varsity volleyball team defeated West Vigo 21-25, 25-11, 25-19, 25-17 in a non-conference match at West Terre Haute Thursday night. The Lady Miners improved to 16-7. Sydney Lehman was 6-for-7 serving and finished with 10 kills, 11 digs and a pair of block assists...

Libbi Fougerousse was 23 for 24 serving with 13 aces, five assists and one kill as the Linton-Stockton Middle School "A" volleyball team defeated Eastern Greene 25-14, 25-13. Reese Yuodzukinas served one ace, Macy Fiddler had three aces and three kills. Hannah Padgett had an ace and three kills...

By Rick Curl SPORTS WRITER The high school football season begins it's slow turn toward the post season as week No. 7 looms in the foreground. This week's schedule finds a pair of Southwest Seven Conference games -- and homecoming games -- on the slate. And both are rivalry match ups as the Linton-Stockton Miners try to get back on the winning track against North Knox while the Union (Dugger) Bulldogs invade the turf at Eastern Greene...

The White River Valley vs. Bloomfield boys tennis match Thursday at the Loogootee Sectional will start at 5:30 p.m. Bloomfield won the regular season meetings 5-0 and 3-2.

Nearly 200 Greene County registered voters may have received duplicate absentee ballot cards in the mail during the past two weeks. Greene County Clerk Jackie Winstead acknowledged last week that a mistake was made some time between Sept. 15-18, which was the deadline to get the absentee ballot application packets in the mail...