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A man is lodged in the Putnam County Jail after leading police on a pursuit late Sunday night. Greencastle police responded to a South Side neighborhood for a complaint of a suspicious vehicle, with the caller believing the occupant could be armed. Around 11:30 p.m., officers found the vehicle in the area of Berry and Main streets and tried to initiate a traffic stop. The driver tried to elude them, going down alleyways and a variety of different roads...

CLOVERDALE — A burglarized home and the ensuing investigation led to four arrests on multiple charges, some of them not even related to the burglary. A family recently returned from vacation to their West Water Street home, finding their house burglarized and several family heirlooms taken...

CLOVERDALE -- First ice was the issue Saturday along Interstate 70, then Sunday it was “snow.” The latter wasn’t nearly as slippery when Indiana State Police stopped a semi along the interstate and seized $2 million worth of cocaine Sunday. The incident unfolded at approximately 5:45 p.m. when a trooper from the Putnamville Post stopped a semi tractor-trailer for a motor carrier inspection near the 41-mile marker at Cloverdale...

A Russellville man is facing six felony counts relating to child pornography found on his person computer. Clayton Osterhoudt, 68, was charged in Putnam Superior Court with Level 4 felony dissemination of child pornography and five counts of Level 5 felony possession of child pornography...

While no serious injuries have been reported, a fire hydrant was damaged in an incident on Washington Street in Greencastle Friday afternoon. The crash, which was witnessed by Greencastle firefighters, was called in at about 2:15 p.m. and located to the intersection with Spring Street. The road was then closed at Locust Street and College Avenue...

With a change to its COVID-19 policy, Greencastle Community School Corp. will return to masking on Monday, Jan. 18. GCSC does not have school Monday due to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Supt. Jeff Gibboney made the announcement late Monday afternoon that masks will be required when Putnam County is in the red according to the Indiana State Department of Health COVID-19 Dashboard...

PUTNAMVILLE -- While Saturday’s freezing rain and sleet brought on a barrage of motor vehicle accidents, especially along U.S. 40 and Interstate 70, by far the worst incident resulted in the deaths of three members of a Missouri family in a one-vehicle accident about a mile west of the Putnam-Clay county line...

A Greencastle woman was injured in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. 231 near the viaduct just north of the city Saturday afternoon. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, Putnam County EMS and the Greencastle Fire Department were dispatched to the incident, which occurred across from County Road 25 South, at about 1:30 p.m...

BRAZIL ­— In Clay County Tuesday, the U.S. Marshal Service captured a suspect wanted for the Tennessee murder of a promising rapper in November. According to its website (usmarshals.gov): “After a coordinated investigation by the U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent Fugitive Task Force and the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, Justin Johnson was captured ...

The arrival of freezing rain led to police, paramedic and fire personnel going on multiple motor vehicle incidents on Putnam County roads and Interstate 70 into the evening on Saturday. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office reported that deputies responded to 18 wrecks over the span of six hours as precipitation moved through the area and led to icy road conditions. However, agencies altogether covered 43 such incidents including injuries, property damage and slide-offs...

With a change to its COVID-19 policy, Greencastle Community School Corp. will return to masking on Monday, Jan. 18. GCSC does not have school Monday due to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Supt. Jeff Gibboney made the announcement late Monday afternoon that masks will be required when Putnam County is in the red according to the Indiana State Department of Health COVID-19 Dashboard...

CLOVERDALE -- First ice was the issue Saturday along Interstate 70, then Sunday it was “snow.” The latter wasn’t nearly as slippery when Indiana State Police stopped a semi along the interstate and seized $2 million worth of cocaine Sunday. The incident unfolded at approximately 5:45 p.m. when a trooper from the Putnamville Post stopped a semi tractor-trailer for a motor carrier inspection near the 41-mile marker at Cloverdale...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Indiana 4th District Congressman Jim Baird (R-Greencastle) has announced his legislative priorities for 2022. “This year, I will continue building on the promises I made when I came to Congress,” Baird said this week, listing those promises as “standing for conservative principles by protecting Hoosiers’ Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, defending the lives of the unborn, and fighting against any policies that advance the foothold of socialism in the United States...

In moving back into the red category of COVID-19 metrics, Putnam County joined the majority of Indiana counties currently on the highest level of alert on the Indiana State Department of Health’s latest COVID-19 map. With a seven-day positivity rate of 19.86 percent on all tests as well as 662 new cases per 100,000 residents, Putnam County is well beyond the threshold for the highest alert level in both metrics...

A Greencastle woman was injured in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. 231 near the viaduct just north of the city Saturday afternoon. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, Putnam County EMS and the Greencastle Fire Department were dispatched to the incident, which occurred across from County Road 25 South, at about 1:30 p.m...

POLAND — Wasatch Lake has announced the addition of a husband-and-wife team to reside at and manage the 400-acre private retreat and woodland getaway. Ryan and Tara Cummings joined the Wasatch Lake team in the fall of 2021 and are looking forward to caring for the property and managing guest experiences...

A Russellville man is facing six felony counts relating to child pornography found on his person computer. Clayton Osterhoudt, 68, was charged in Putnam Superior Court with Level 4 felony dissemination of child pornography and five counts of Level 5 felony possession of child pornography...