State News

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Joint Investigation Leads to Methamphetamine Dealing Arrest

Bedford – In May of this year, the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department and the Indiana State Police began an investigation into methamphetamine dealing taking place on Wesley Chapel Road. After receiving information that methamphetamine was allegedly being dealt there by Jerry Lemmons (52 years old), Lawrence County Police Officer Andrew …

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Department of Child Services, Colts host Books for Youth event

KOKOMO (July 11, 2019) – Forty-seven foster children received backpacks filled with books this week at the eighth-annual Books for Youth event sponsored by the Indiana’s Department of Child Services (DCS), Indianapolis Colts and Cargo Services Inc. The event took place at Haynes International July 9 in Kokomo, where area …

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Lt. Governor grows Indiana-Mexico relationship

PACHUCA, MEXICO (July 10, 2019) — Business roundtables, meetings with senior government officials and the signing of a letter of intent have netted a productive first three days in Mexico, as part of Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch’s second agricultural, economic and tourism development trip. The agriculture delegation spent Monday and …

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Jeffersonville man dies in ORV accident

Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating a fatal off-road vehicle (ORV) accident near Eckerty in Crawford County. At approximately 11 a.m. yesterday, George E. Williams, age 80, was traveling eastbound on Kaiser Road in a Bush Hog 440 side-by-side style ORV and was attempting to cross State Route 64 when he …

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Juvenile injured in boating incident in Monticello

Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating a boating incident involving injury that occurred in Monticello on Lake Freeman this morning. Just after 11:30 a.m. first responders were dispatched to Lake Freeman regarding a juvenile who had been injured while wakeboarding. Witnesses on the boat stated the 5 year old was wakeboarding when the front …

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Woman airlifted after ORV accident in Martin County

A Springville woman was seriously injured in an Off Road Vehicle (ORV) accident in Martin County. Tyler George, 22, of Springville, was operating a 2013 Polaris Ranger in a private field near Bear Hill Road in Shoals on July 6 at approximately 11 p.m. when the vehicle rolled over and …

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Crash on I-65 Claims the Life of a Freetown Man

Edinburgh, IN – Early Sunday morning emergency crews were dispatched to I-65 northbound near the 82 mile marker in Shelby County for reports of a single vehicle crash. Around 2:45 a.m. 911 calls began coming in about a vehicle off the roadway and both occupants were severely injured. Shelby County Sheriff …

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Crews Searching for Missing Lake Michigan Swimmer

Michigan City, IN- Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating the disappearance of 17 year old South Bend resident Rahem Mason in Lake Michigan. At approximately 7:07 p.m. Saturday evening, Indiana Conservation Officers Central Dispatch Center received a report of a possible drowning in Lake Michigan in the area of Washington Park. Witnesses observed …

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