Stories from Sunday, November 18, 2007

A high-speed chase that exceeded 120 miles per hour in Putnam County ended with the death of a Brazil teenager Saturday morning on the Putnam-Clay County Line about two miles south of U.S. 40. Brandee N. Siples, 17, a student at Northview High School, was pronounced dead at the scene of the one-car crash...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale Town Council members who voted to demote the former police chief at last week's meeting were tight-lipped about the reasons behind their decision to oust Cloverdale Police Chief Charlie Hallam. Town Council President Don Sublett said he voted to demote Hallam because of numerous complaints he and other council members had received about Hallam's performance...

By ADAM COATES Assistant Editor North Putnam School Board members know the corporation is due for a facilities upgrade. What they don't know is where to start or how to pay for it. For the second month in a row, the subject of aging buildings came up at the board's monthly meeting Thursday night, with the superintendent vowing to help the board prioritize a list of items to be addressed...

Cloverdale Town Council members Judy Whitaker and John Davis filed suit last week against two local real estate investors, accusing them of bankrolling the lawsuit brought by four town board candidates after the 2003 Cloverdale election. The lawsuit, filed Nov. 5, seeks to recover unpaid attorney feeds and court costs from John Setty and Curt Sinclair, since the original plaintiffs in the case paid only $3,000 of the $11,700 a judge ordered them to pay in January 2006, according to the lawsuit...

Harold J. Williams, 67, Greencastle, died Friday afternoon at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis. Born in Greencastle, he was the son of Louis H. and Willie B. (Carter) Williams. A 1958 graduate of Greencastle High School, he was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. He was a press operator and had also worked as an order entry clerk at IBM before retiring in 1987...

Putnam County Jail Eight people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently...