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A warrant was issued Friday for the arrest of a Bloomfield woman who served during the past year as a cheerleading coach for Bloomfield Schools and also worked as a full-time substitute teacher for Linton-Stockton Schools. The warrant was served the same day.
Read MoreGreene County Ambulance Service Medic Amanda Harkness administers oxygen to a dog with assistance from Taylor Fire Chief Randy Baker. The dog had been trapped inside a burning house in Scotland on Sunday. The special oxygen mask was donated to the Taylor Fire Department by the Invisible Fence Company. Photo Courtesy of Taylor Fire Department.
The Taylor Fire Department responded to a house fire Sunday, June 17, on West Gate Road in Scotland and rescued a dog that was trapped inside the burning house.
Greene County Ambulance Medic Amanda Harkness used a pet oxygen mask that was donated to the Taylor Fire Department by the Invisible Fence Company to administer oxygen to the dog.
Taylor Fire Chief Randy Baker reported the dog’s condition improved after the oxygen was administered.
Center Township Fire Department also assisted on the scene.
A warrant was issued Friday for the arrest of a Bloomfield woman who served as a cheerleading coach for Bloomfield Schools and also worked as a full-time substitute teacher for Linton-Stockton Schools. Morgan M. Judy, 23, is accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with a 17-year-old male Bloomfield student. The preliminary charges filed against Judy on Friday include two counts of child seduction - one Level 5 felony and one Level 6 felony.
Read MoreA Jasonville man, who’s already served one sentence in the Greene County Jail and been sent to prison twice, is headed back to prison for a third stint in the Indiana Department of Corrections.
Read MoreWhen a man from Alabama driving south on I-69 through Greene County passed up another southbound vehicle, he found out that vehicle was equipped with radar and the driver was Indiana State Police Master Trooper Eric Nash.
Read MoreA Worthington driver was pulled over last weekend because he allegedly didn’t dim his headlights for an oncoming vehicle that turned out to be a Worthington officer on patrol. The man ended up in jail, accused of operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a blood-alcohol concentration over twice the legal limit.
Read MoreA 26-year-old woman, formerly of Jasonville who may now live in Lyons, is being summoned into court on preliminary charges of battery and criminal mischief. She allegedly slapped, punched and hit a man then threw a tricycle through the front window of his home.
Read MoreA Jasonville woman accused of abandoning farm animals was summoned to appear in Greene Superior Court for an initial hearing on a charge of cruelty to an animal, a Class A misdemeanor. When she failed to appear, a warrant was issued for her arrest.
Read MoreFrom January 2014, through November 2015, TEI took delivery of all Humvees from Naval Support Activity Crane (Crane) … opened a facility in nearby Spencer, Indiana, where the purported demilitarization took place… indictment alleges Treloar converted at least seven fully armored Humvees for his own use and sold or attempted to sell them for his own benefit. The value of the Humvees was over $589,000.
Read MoreA Linton woman has had four criminal cases filed against her in a little over a year’s time. All of them involve allegations of battery in physical fights she’s allegedly started.
Read MoreAccording to a deputy and several witnesses, a Bloomfield driver came close to hitting several children as well as other vehicles when he revved his engine, smoked his tires and drove through a crowded grocery store parking lot at a high rate of speed last weekend. He was arrested.
Read MoreOn the night of his arrest in late April, a Linton man accused of dealing methamphetamine led Greene County Drug Task Force officers and ISP troopers on a chase, rammed a trooper’s vehicle, drove through a yard, crashed into a porch then fled on foot. He’s been in jail since then. On Tuesday, he agreed to plead guilty.
Read MoreA 35-year-old Jasonville woman has agreed to plead guilty to neglect of a dependent in a case that’s connected with Logan White. White recently was convicted and sentenced for felony child molesting.
Read MoreA Bloomfield woman driving toward Owensburg early Saturday wound up in a ditch, then in Greene County Jail on preliminary charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated at twice the legal limit.
Read MoreTosumba Welch, Jr., age 20, of Linton, was scheduled to be sentenced early this morning but the defense requested a continuance and the date of his sentencing has been reset. Welch could be facing up to 20 years.
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