Stories from Thursday, March 16, 2017

The courtroom misadventures of Wesley January continued Wednesday -- albeit very briefly this time. After prior courtroom visits in which he claimed sovereign citizen status and answered the judge's questions with questions of his own, January tried a new tactic Wednesday afternoon...

Several buildings were evacuated and an elementary school placed on lockdown Thursday when a six-inch gas main was ruptured along South Locust Street. A utility crew was excavating next to the street at the south end of the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media late Thursday morning and struck the gas main, causing the leak...

On Monday, March 20, 10 percent of all sales at the Greencastle Dairy Queen will be donated to the Greencastle Kiwanis Club The proceeds will assist the Kiwanis Club in its fundraising for the children of Putnam County. Participants can show a coupon downloaded from this page or have it on their phones in order for Kiwanis to receive credit for purchase on Sunday...

Nine people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 2:48 p.m. Katherine Graham Beard, 26, Danville, was housed at the jail on a local warrant. • At 11:50 a.m. Carol Ann Burton, 50, Knightsville, was booked in on a local warrant...

As president of the nation’s largest singly-accredited statewide community college system, Sue Ellspermann is aware that high letter grades can’t be thrown around lightly. So when the Ivy Tech president more than once referred to the Greencastle Ivy Tech campus as “an A-plus” during a Thursday afternoon visit, local officials were pleased with the praise...

Dylan Wood is a senior baseball player at South Putnam. He attended Greencastle as a freshman and transferred to South Putnam for his last three years. Banner Graphic: What kinds of things do you do besides baseball and school activities?...

Today is not only St. Patrick’s Day, but would have been the 21st birthday for Patrick Stephen Barrett, the son of Greg and Molly Barrett, who passed away March 10, 2016, after a lengthy battle with cancer. In honor of Patrick, the “PS We Love You” fund at Riley Children’s hospital will host its inaugural online fundraiser today. The goal is to raise $21,000 in one day to help fund precision genomics testing for individual children fighting the battle of their lifetime against cancer...

As Brian McCammon sits in Bankers Life Fieldhouse tonight to watch the NCAA tournament first-round basketball games, he will be able to see a familiar face out on the court in Northern Kentucky’s Cole Murray. Murray is a senior at NKU and graduated in 2013 from Delphi, where McCammon recently completed the second year of his second stint as head coach of the Delphi Oracles...

BAINBRIDGE -- After announcing Dan Noel’s reapproval as superintendent in February, which ended an uneasy search for his replacement that spanned nearly five months, the North Putnam School Board still faced the need to fill two important positions after the departure of former corporation attorney Gene Hostetter on Jan. 11 and the resignation of former athletic director Tim Garver on Jan. 30...