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A Jasonville driver, with a suspended driver’s license, attracted the attention of a JPD officer when she stopped at a convenience store. She ended up in jail facing drug charges.
Read MoreA Solsberry man, who had lost his driver’s license for life, is facing a Level 5 felony after a GCSD detective saw him driving a vehicle.
Read MoreA woman who called police from her car in Bloomfield last week ended up in jail after she offered to let a deputy search her car and he reported finding meth paraphernalia with residue.
Read MoreAfter deputies responded to a fight in progress between two men in Blue Sky North, one man was arrested.
Read MoreWhen GCSD responded to a residence in the Solsberry area last week, they saw an item of paraphernalia associated with meth use and found more during a search.
Read MorePositive Identification: The Vigo County Coroner’s Office has identified the deceased male that was discovered in a vehicle on August 16, 2021, at County Road 300 North and County Road 225 East in Sullivan County. The individual has been positively identified as: Tracy Lee Tackett (Sullivan County Coroner)…….
Read MoreGreene County is designated ORANGE-moderate to high community spread, for a second week on Indiana’s color code advisor map. School age children now account for 20% of COVID-19 cases nationwide due to the Delta variant. During the 7-day surveillance period of Monday, August 9 to Sunday, August 15, the positivity rate of school aged children continues to increase with 12% of cases reported in Greene County represent K12 students. COVID-19 cases will continue to increase unless more people get vaccinated and more people practice universal precautions such as staying a home when you are sick, get tested, adhering to isolation and quarantine protocols, masking in crowds, and good hand hygiene as we battle the Delta variant. The Health Department strongly recommends universal masking (fully vaccinated and unvaccinated) for all students (age 2 and older), staff, teachers and visitors in schools during moderate to high levels of community COVID-19 spread. This strong recommendation is aligned with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) guidelines……..
Read MoreINDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) is notifying nearly 750,000 Hoosiers that data from the state’s COVID-19 online contact tracing survey was improperly accessed. The data included name, address, email, gender, ethnicity and race, and date of birth.
Read MoreSullivan County - On Monday, August 16, 2021, at approximately 4:15 p.m., Sullivan County Sheriff Clark Cottom located a vehicle at County Road 300 North and County Road 225 East, occupied by a deceased male.
Read MoreA Switz City man is facing numerous charges connected with allegedly driving with a BAC of .158. He allegedly admitted drinking a large margarita before driving, then some beer in his truck before skidding off a road into a ditch.
Read MoreAn upset Worthington woman called 911 a couple of weeks ago because a Bloomfield man who was to have no contact with her was knocking on her door. Last Friday, an alert WPD officer saw the man’s truck parked at her apartment building and became concerned when she didn’t answer the door or her phone.
Read MoreYesterday in Greene Superior Court, on his 58th birthday, a Bloomfield man was remanded to the custody of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department after a jury found him guilty of three counts of public nudity and two counts of public indecency. Terry J. Gilmore, a coach and businessman at the time of the incidents, was booked into the Greene County Jail at 2:05 p.m. He will be sentenced later this month.
Read MoreOwen County - A crash on SR 67 between a Spencer Owen Community School bus and a passenger car has claimed the life of one person.
Read MoreA wife reported a vehicle as stolen this week. Turned out the husband had forgotten where he parked it. After he found it and was on his way to return the vehicle to his wife, he was stopped by a WPD officer.
Read MoreA wife is accused of battery on her husband. When she talked to a deputy, she wouldn’t say how her husband got the marks on his face, but she did call him a few names.
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