Stories from Wednesday, March 4, 2020

UPDATE: The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department has canceled a Silver Alert for a missing 15-year-old girl. Paris Christine Stabler-Day was found safe and the Silver Alert was canceled early Wednesday morning...

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Imagine an NCAA Tournament with no fans in the arenas. What normally would be thought an impossibility isn’t so far-fetched as the United States and the rest of the world attempt to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. An advocacy group for college athletes has urged the NCAA to consider holding its winter sports championships with no fans, and the idea has not been dismissed out of hand...

CLASS 4A 1. E. Chicago Central Merrillville 88, Hammond Morton 45 2. Valparaiso Chesterton 60, Lowell 47 3. LaPorte Culver Academy 62, S. Bend Riley 41 4. Elkhart Northridge 60, Concord 40 5. Carroll (Ft. Wayne) E. Noble 51, DeKalb 36 Ft. Wayne Northrop 52, Ft. Wayne North 48...

Fresh off the program's seventh North Coast Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament championship in nine years in the league, DePauw (27-1) opens NCAA Division III Championship play with a 7 p.m. first-round game on Friday in Neal Fieldhouse against Webster (20-7)...

NEW MARKET — It is not often that a team allows its opponent to shoot 62 percent, gets outrebounded by them by nine on the game and still picks up the win, but the three-point shot is a great equalizer. The North Putnam Cougars won their opening game of the Class 2A Sectional 44 game against Southmont 81-72 by burying 14 shots from behind the arc and taking care of the basketball by only turning the ball over seven times...

Frankfort’s Hot Dogs had a lot of obstacles against them in Tuesday night’s opening game of the Greencastle Sectional. They had to make a long bus trip to play the host team on its own floor which was looking to defend its sectional title of a year ago...

Following her official introduction to the campus community, DePauw University’s newly appointed president Lori White interacts with well-wishers during a reception inside the Green Center for the Performing Arts Wednesday afternoon. White’s appointment was announced by DePauw’s board of trustees on Tuesday. Look for the Banner Graphic’s interview with White during the event online Thursday and in Friday’s upcoming edition.

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