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McDONOUGH, Ga., — The driver of a pickup truck stolen from Putnam County last week is allegedly responsible for a crash that claimed a toddler’s life in Georgia on Tuesday. According to a report in the Henry Herald, Michael Logan Sexton, 26, Monrovia, was driving a Dodge Ram southbound on Interstate 75 when he reportedly rear-ended a Hyundai Santa Fe that was carrying the toddler. This set of a chain reaction that collected two other vehicles...

The 2017 Greencastle High School Homecoming king and queen will be crowned at halftime of the Tiger Cubs’ Friday night football game with Cascade. Senior candidates for king and queen are (from left) Jacob Meyer, Rose White, Jack Hutcheson, Layna Robinson, Jake Bennett, Hannah York, Sean Ramey and Esther Hale. The Tiger Cubs and Cadets kick off at 7 p.m. in Harbison Stadium...

MARSHALL -- Two Parke County people were arrested Sunday afternoon after an accident involving two vehicles and a motorcycle near Marshall in northeastern Parke County. Indiana Conservation Officers reported that Omar Mosby, 34, and Ashly Mosby, 27, both of Rockville, were arrested on multiple charges...

BELLE UNION — A Coatesville man died Monday evening after rolling his off-road vehicle in southeastern Putnam County. John Hall, 48, of Coatesville, was pronounced dead after being transported to Putnam County Hospital. At 5:43 p.m. a passerby in the area of County Road 800 East and 500 South called Putnam County Dispatch to report an overturned Polaris Ranger along the roadway with a man trapped underneath...

Putnam Prompt Care After-Hours Clinic has been caring for patients in Putnam County and surrounding areas for a little over two years. The service has been much needed to keep family and friends close to home for after-hours care. As the clinic continues to grow, Putnam Prompt Care announces that the clinic will now have extended the hours to accommodate last-minute health needs throughout the day...

Leading Cascade just 3-0 at halftime, Greencastle recovered a fumble on the second-half kickoff and used that miscue to score three straight times in the third period to break open what would eventually be a 37-0 homecoming win. The vaunted Greencastle defense, statistically one of the best in the state, recorded its second shutout of the season and limited the Cadets to just two first downs...

Nine people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 10:24 p.m. Justin Michael Hall, 27, Poland, was housed at the jail on a Johnson County warrant. • At 10:07 p.m. Johnathon Colin Kashman, 22, Rushville, was booked in on an out-of-county warrant...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Troy D. Kennedy, 49, Cloverdale, Level 3 felony dealing in methamphetamine, Level 5 felony possession of methamphetamine, Level 6 felony unlawful possession of a syringe, Class B misdemeanor possession of marijuana, Class A infraction driving with a suspended license...

Intersections around Greencastle and Putnam County have been busy this week with utility work, as Indiana Department of Transportation crews introduce a new statewide safety initiative to Putnam County. With the addition of flashing yellow arrows for designated left turn lanes, INDOT officials hope to make right-of-way more explicitly clear to motorists...

With fellow staff members and students applying the duct tape, Greencastle Middle School sixth grade science teacher Daniel Summerlot finds himself attached to the wall of the cafeteria Tuesday during lunch hour. Students and staff paid a dollar each for strips of duct tape. The “Teachers Taped to the Wall” fundraiser is part of a larger effort at GMS to raise money for hurricane relief in Texas and Florida...

McDONOUGH, Ga., — The driver of a pickup truck stolen from Putnam County last week is allegedly responsible for a crash that claimed a toddler’s life in Georgia on Tuesday. According to a report in the Henry Herald, Michael Logan Sexton, 26, Monrovia, was driving a Dodge Ram southbound on Interstate 75 when he reportedly rear-ended a Hyundai Santa Fe that was carrying the toddler. This set of a chain reaction that collected two other vehicles...

Celebrating its 30th anniversary as part of the Greencastle industrial landscape, Heartland Automotive was granted tax abatement Thursday night on an additional $5.9 million investment in new equipment. That investment will add new injection-molding machines, exterior paint robots, toolings and air compressors for the manufacturing line at the East Side facility Heartland has called home since locating in Greencastle in 1987 as the American headquarters for Shigeru Industries of Ota City, Japan...

FILLMORE -- The Fillmore Town Council approved postponing repairs to Putnam Street until next spring because there was not enough money designated for the project in the budget. “We’re not getting Putnam Street done,” President Curt Leonard said. “It’s plain and simple as that. It’s going to be next year. To the people that live on Putnam Street, I’m really sorry they got their hopes up. I promise we tried.”...

With more than $100,000 already committed to the effort to build a new bandshell at Robe-Ann Park in Greencastle, attention can now turn to the aesthetics involved in the project. The Greencastle Board of Park Commissioners Monday heard a progress report from Jessica Hartman, president of the Friends of the Park group which is spearheading the bandshell project that has received major donations from such groups as the Greencastle Civic League and the Putnam County Convention and Visitor Bureau and a $50,000 grant from the Indiana Office of Tourism Development and Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs.. ...