Stories from Saturday, February 16, 2013

Several people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 4:23 p.m. on Wednesday, Jessica Lynn Wood, 27, Greencastle, was arrested for probation violation. At 11:40 a.m. on Thursday, Harley Davidson Tinsley, 41, Indianapolis, was lodged at the jail for nonsupport of a dependent...

CANTON, Ohio -- DePauw University's women's swimming and diving team turned in a pair of school-record and NCAA "B" cut time and moved into third place with 630.5 points at the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships. Denison leads with 1,162 points, while Kenyon is second with 1,153.5...

CANTON, Ohio -- DePauw's 11th-ranked men's swimming and diving team made NCAA automatic cuts in two events and school records in four during the second day of competition at the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships. DePauw has totaled 679.5 points through two days, while Denison leads with 1,111.5 and Kenyon is second with 1,065...

SPENCER -- The best compliment South Putnam junior varsity coach Chris Jones could pay to his team after Friday night's double-overtime game at Owen Valley was the kids were thinking on their feet. Coming off a timeout with 10 seconds to play in the second extra frame, the Eagles had prepared for the Patriots to come out in man-to-man defense...

SPENCER -- The South Putnam boys' basketball team twice dug itself deep holes at Owen Valley on Tuesday night, and the second was just too big to overcome, as the Patriots defeated the Eagles 60-41. It was a night where the bad stretches simply outlasted the good stretches for South Putnam (10-9, 2-3 WCC), a circumstance coach Troy Burgess laid at his own feet...

COVINGTON -- The North Putnam boys' basketball team moved its win streak to six games with a 66-62 win at Covington on Friday night. The Cougars are now 8-10 this season. NPHS coach Nathan Martindale said he was pleased his team was able to get a big road win, particularly at a challenging gym like the Trojans have...

CRAWFORDSVILLE -- The Greencastle boys' basketball team traveled to take on the Southmont Mounties on Friday night, going home with a loss, 63-42. The Mounties were led by junior Devon Burton, who led all scorers with 23 points. Burton hit four threes on the night and had an outstanding 13 points in the first quarter, and had 19 at the half...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Rudy Harris' ride to the Indiana High School Athletic Association wrestling state finals came to a halt on Friday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Harris, matched up against Indianapolis Roncalli's No. 7 Mason Nickell, fell in the round of 16 by a score of 10-3...

CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale boys' basketball team hosted Eminence on Friday, looking to get a win on a senior night and enter the postseason with some positive momentum. The Clovers jumped out to a 15-point lead at halftime, then held on for a win in the closing seconds 57-54...

Scott Rasmussen, the 1986 DePauw University graduate who has been called "today's leading insurgent pollster ... (and) a key player in the contact sport of politics" by the Wall Street Journal, will return to his alma mater Wednesday, Feb. 20 to present a 175th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture...

Designating the week of Feb. 17-23 as Tri Kappa Week, Greencastle Mayor Sue Murray signs a proclamation to that effect at City Hall.

Five Putnam County high school seniors have been named as finalists for the Putnam County Community Foundation's 2013 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar The prestigious award goes annually to the most outstanding graduating high school senior in Putnam County...

Area 30 Career Center has much to celebrate as several students earned top honors at the recent World-of-Wheels competition. Area 30 recently held its monthly meeting in which board members got an update about the good things going on at the career center...

On Friday, Feb. 15 a three-vehicle car wreck on U.S. 231 left four people hospitalized with two being airlifted from the accident site. The accident occurred south of Fincastle around 5 p.m. when a 2004 Yukon driven by Brian Kamplain of Greencastle hit a Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Amanda Millican of Bainbridge and sent the vehicle into the northbound lane on U.S. 231...