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Greene County Sheriff's Department Jail Log
(Police Reports ~ 04/23/14)
April 23 -- Scott Smith, 32, Dugger, was arrested on preliminary charges involving operating a vehicle while intoxicated. His bond was set at $8,000 surety with ten percent allowed. Greene County Sheriff's Deputy Jeff Brown was the arresting officer...
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WRV Junior-Senior High School students view what can happen when you drink and drive
(Local News ~ 04/23/14)
SWITZ CITY ---- Students at White River Valley Junior-Senior High School staged a mock wreck drill on Wednesday morning as part of a week-long effort to call attention to the dangers of being intoxicated and driving a vehicle. The project was coordinated by the WRV Leadership group and its sponsor Mike Karr along with school resource officer Scott Allen...
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Miners take third, Lakers fourth
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
In a high school girls and boys track and field meet Tuesday at Clay City , Linton-Stockton took third in both races and Shakamak was fourth in both events. Clay City won the boys event with 78 points. South Putnam had 74, the Miners 54 and Shakamak 31...
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Cardinals post win at South Knox
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
The Bloomfield Cardials got back on the winning track with a 4-3 win over host South Knox at Verne Tuesday night. The Cardinals survived a fifth inning three run uprising from the host Spartans before finally wrapping up the win with a single run in the seventh...
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Progress continues on the Interstate 69 Corridor; motorists will begin encountering some oversize loads in rural Greene County
(Local News ~ 04/23/14)
Beginning on Monday, May 5, beams for bridges on the I-69 project will begin to be delivered in western Greene County. These loads will be extremely long and most likely will be delivered in pairs. The anticipated route to be used will be S.R. 37, S.R. ...
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Ronnie R. Faultless
(Obituary ~ 04/23/14)
Ronnie R. Faultless, 76, of Bloomington, passed away on April 22, 2014. Ronnie was born in Calvertville, Indiana, on Dec. 23, 1937. Ronnie was preceded in death by his parents Richard and Naomi (Calvert) Faultless, his brother Jahn Faultless and his sister Joan Faultless...
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Michael Shan Bowers
(Obituary ~ 04/23/14)
Michael Shan Bowers, 48, of Linton, IN, passed away on Sunday, April 20, 2014 at his residence. He was born on April 9, 1966 in Linton to Ronald L. and Genie Boyle Bowers. Michael married his wife, Stacy J. Daymude on Dec. 16, 2013. Shan was a member of IBEW #1393 in Indianapolis where he was employed as a Journeyman Lineman. He was also a member of the BPO Elks #866 and Sons of the Legion Post #22. Shan's hobbies were riding his Harley, fishing, mushroom hunting and traveling...
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Lady T-Birds lose to Loogootee
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
The Eastern Greene Lady Thunderbirds dropped a 7-3 decision to the visiting Loogootee Lady Lions Wednesday night at Little Cincinnati in a high school softball game. The Lady Lions jumped to a quick 4-0 lead in the top of the first off starter Jama Thomas and was never challenged despite a single EGHS run in the third and two more in the sixth after Loogootee added three more in the top of the frame...
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Lady Miners top host Bloomfield
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
A senior loaded Linton-Stockton Lady Miner team ran through the Bloomfield Cardinals girls' tennis team 4-1 Wednesday on the Cards home courts. L-S swept doubles and picked up two of the three singles spots to take the match. "I was happy with our play tonight. It was a really close match," said Lady Miner coach Nathan Skinner. "It's always good to get a win in the conference."...
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Union falls in eight innings
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
Sullivan pushed across the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning, defeating visiting Union 8-7 in a non-conference high school softball game Wednesday. It was the seventh loss in as many games for the Lady Bulldogs. Union will host Cloverdale starting at 10 a.m. Saturday...
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WRV students get a wake up call with mock wreck drill
(Local News ~ 04/23/14)
SWITZ CITY ---- White River Valley Junior-Senior High School provided a wake up call for its students on Wednesday morning by staging a mock wreck drill as a prelude to Saturday night's annual school prom. The dramatization was coordinated by members of the school's Leadership Team, the club's sponsor Mike Karr and school resource officer Scott Allen...
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Bloomfield wins conference game
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
Hunter Heaton and David Deem homered and Jared Bond allowed just one earned run in six innngs of work as the Bloomfield Cardinals posted a 5-2 Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference win over visiting North Daviess Wednesday night. Heaton and Deem's dingers were a part of a seven-hit attack that made a loser out of the Cougars' Alex Wittmer...
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Errors cost Eastern Greene
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
Eastern Greene baseball coach Randy Frye used one sentence to explain his team's 4-1 loss to Sullivan in a non-conference high school baseball game Wednesday night. "We screwed up a heck of a good outing by Keith Ringer," Frye said. Frye was referring to the four errors committed by his team that paved the way for four unearned runs at the expense of Ringer...
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Johnson to run for Vincennes Unversity
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
JASONVILLE -- Shakamak track and cross country standout Eric Johnson has decided to take his skills to the next level at Vincennes University. The senior distance runner signed his letter of intent to attend the Knox County junior college during a signing session at the school...
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Green to run at ISU
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
JASONVILLE -- You can chalk up another NCAA Division I runner from Greene County. Shakamak senior Aleksey Green now becomes the fourth local athlete to join the ranks of DI athletes after signing a national letter of intent with the Indiana State University track and cross country teams...
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Breaking: Shooting ruled homicide, autopsy reveals victim shot five times
(Local News ~ 04/23/14)
A fatal shooting incident on Easter Sunday has been ruled a homicide involving multiple gunshot wounds to the victim's head, abdomen and chest. Michael Shan Bowers, 48, was found on Sunday night lying face down in a pool of blood in a gravel parking area behind his home located at 2146 North County Road 900 West near Linton...
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Schaffer admits shooting Bowers, says Bowers threatened to shoot Schaffer in the face, but Bowers was found unarmed
(Local News ~ 04/23/14)
Aaron L. Schaffer turned himself in at the Linton Police Department on Sunday night not long after he allegedly shot and killed Michael Shan Bowers. Two detectives who interviewed Schaffer later that night in two separate interviews report that Schaffer admitted he fired five shots at Bowers from a .357 Taurus revolver...
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Schaffer formally charged with murder in Greene Circuit Court Wednesday morning
(Local News ~ 04/23/14)
Aaron L. Schaffer, accused of fatally shooting Michael S. Bowers on Sunday night, appeared before Judge Erik Allen in Greene Circuit Court Wednesday morning and was formally charged with murder, a felony, and carrying a handgun without a license, a class A misdemeanor...
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Eastern Greene boys win
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
Eastern Greene's boys track and field team earned two wins Tuesday at home. The Thunderbirds amassed 70 points while White River Valley scored 60 and North Daviess was third with 34 points. "This was a great win for our boys," said EGHS coach Chad Stowers. "I'm very proud of the way they all stepped up, even under some adverse conditions...
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UPDATED: Carpenter tosses five hitter
(High School Sports ~ 04/23/14)
White River Valley starter Trent Carpenter got all the run support he would need in the first two innings on his way to a 5-1 Southwestern Indiana Athletic Conference win over Union Wednesday night at Switz City. Led by Houston Boram's double and 2 RBIs and Tyler York's double, the WRV offense strung together four runs in the first and one in the second inning respectively to make a winner out of Carpenter...
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