Stories from Monday, September 29, 2014

Local law enforcement officials along with the Greencastle Department of Public Works were busy Monday morning as they worked to cut down a tree that had fallen in the roadway on Washington Street near Greencastle High School. The tree, located in front of the home of Tim and Kim Shinn at 913 E. Washington St., is said to have rotted out from its base and thus fell into the roadway early this morning...

Richard L. Snider, age 46, of Kingman, passed away at 1:20 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Crawfordsville. He was born in Greencastle on Dec. 11, 1967 to Richard Snider and Amanda Ann (Cox) Alexander. Richard graduated from Greencastle High School and married Tracey (Serepin) Snider on Nov. 18, 1995 in Greencastle...

A 43-year-old drug-dealing suspect encountered a failure to communicate in court Monday but might have been better off it he had failed to converse a bit Saturday morning instead. After all, it was an attempt to communicate -- texting -- that initially attracted Gregorio Paniagua-Garcia to Putnam County Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Simmons, who reported he could clearly see the suspect texting as he drove along Interstate 70 near the 42-mile marker, a mile east of Cloverdale...