Stories from Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Capturing all but two of Putnam County 's 31 precincts, incumbent Republican Jim Baird rolled to victory to retain his District 44 seat in the Indiana House of Representatives. Baird defeated first-time Democrat challenger Kim Fidler by taking 66 percent of the Putnam County vote in a 9,629-4,928 triumph that sends the Greencastle Republican back to the Statehouse for a fourth two-year term...

The Putnam County Hospital Cancer Center will conduct its annual free prostate screening on Thursday, Nov. 17 from 9 a.m. to noon and 5-7 p.m. Who should consider this free screening? If you are male, 50 years of age or older, or African American male, 45 years of age or older, or are male and have a father/brother with prostate cancer and 45 years of age or older...

Freda Mae Foxx, 88, Indianapolis, passed away on Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. Freda was born Aug. 17, 1928 in Greencastle to Dee Scaggs and Minnie Lee Blankenbecker Scaggs. Her family was evenly divided between five daughters and five sons. Freda was the fifth of 10 children...

A 71-year-old Cloverdale man who admitted to sexual contact with a 12-year-old relative was sentenced Monday afternoon to what appears tantamount to life in prison. Daniel C. Stevens was sentenced to 20 years in the Indiana Department of Correction by Special Judge Blaine Akers in Putnam Circuit Court after defense attorney James Holder argued in vain that Stevens was getting what amounted to capital punishment. ...