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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) today announced changes in COVID-19 guidance for K-12 schools and childcare programs to reflect declining cases across the state. The department also will begin to reduce its COVID-19 response operations because there is less demand for testing and substantial availability of COVID-19 vaccines and treatment at health provider locations.
Read MoreHave you gotten robocalls, text messages, or emails offering COVID-19 tests in exchange for your Medicare Number? Be careful! Scammers are selling fake and unauthorized at-home COVID-19 test kits in exchange for your personal or medical information. Do not give out your Medicare Number for COVID-19 test kits!
Read MoreA shopper was arrested at a local store last Friday on a misdemeanor charge of trespassing. She had signed a form in 2018 not to trespass on the store’s property but said she thought it was only for one year.
Read MoreA Jasonville man was arrested yesterday on a charge of felony theft for allegedly failing to return a car that another Jasonville man let him borrow back in December.
Read MoreGreene County Community Corrections, Bloomfield, Indiana, seeks full-time and part-time Correctional Officers. Incumbents are responsible for ensuring security of work release facility and participants. Incumbents must embrace agency vision of “Providing a Positive Environment to Promote Positive Change”, by effectively communicating and interacting with participants offering encouragement and praise when merited while holding participants accountable for their actions when warranted.
Read MoreA Bloomfield driver suspected of driving under the influence of a controlled substance and arrested early Sunday, is facing charges of OVWI plus meth possession.
Read MoreOn Monday, February 14, 2022, at approximately 3 p.m., Indiana State Police Bloomington District A.C.E.S. (Aggressive Criminal Enforcement Section) member, Trooper Caleb Garvin, observed a Black Audi passenger vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed on State Road 445 just west of Interstate 69 in Greene County.
Read MoreA Republican party caucus will be conducted later this month in Worthington to fill a seat on the Worthington Town Council formerly held by John “Tom” Shelton who recently resigned. The appointment will be to serve for the remainder of Shelton’s term. Any Republican who lives in Ward 3 and is interested in the position needs to file the declaration of candidacy paperwork in the Clerk’s Office on the second floor of the Greene County Courthouse at least 72 hours before the caucus on Sunday, February 27. The official notice as been re-issued to include a correction. Please disregard earlier notice.
Read MoreA shopper allegedly admitted she scanned some items but skipped scanning other items when she went through a self-check-out at a local store.
Read MoreA Jasonville man allegedly took off running when confronted by two Jasonville police officers about an incident in violation of a protective order in which the man is accused of battery, confinement and strangulation. He didn’t get far before he was apprehended and taken to jail.
Read MoreA Republican party caucus will be conducted later this month in Worthington to fill a seat on the Worthington Town Council formerly held by John “Tom” Shelton who recently resigned. The appointment will be to serve for the remainder of Shelton’s term. Any Republican who lives in Jefferson 1 precinct or Jefferson 2 precinct and is interested in the position needs to file the declaration of candidacy paperwork in the Clerk’s Office on the second floor of the Greene County Courthouse at least 72 hours before the caucus on Sunday, February 27.
Read MoreWhen deputies responded to a report of suspicious activity at a location in eastern Greene County, they found a man inside a car that had been parked for several days behind some storage units. The car had been reported as stolen and a deputy arrested the man for meth possession.
Read MoreA Worthington woman is accused of having an assortment of pills and a quantity of methamphetamine as well as a nice stash of cash in her purse when she was stopped by WPD for speeding on Terre Haute Road yesterday afternoon.
Read MoreWhen a Bloomfield man appeared in court on Tuesday, he was charged with a Level 1 felony along with two Level 4 felonies and three Level 5 felonies as a result of an investigation led by a GCSD detective into allegations of child molesting, incest and child exploitation.
Read MoreMultiple deputies and officers from three departments responded early last Monday to a 911 call from a woman who said a man threatening to kill her was beating on her door and a dispatcher could hear glass breaking in the background.
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