Stories from Saturday, December 17, 2016

U.S. 231 was closed just north of Greencastle for several hours Saturday following a horrific-looking semi crash that fortunately left no one injured. The 2014 Freightliner was southbound on U.S. 231 down Waterworks Hill at 8:51 a.m. when it lost control on the slick road...

WEST TERRE HAUTE — South Putnam dropped its first Western Indiana Conference boys’ basketball game Friday night, losing 53-41 to West Vigo. The Eagles trailed for the majority of the game, but made a late run, cutting their deficit to 12, but that’s as close as they would get...

ROACHDALE — The Northview Knights rolled into Cougar Country Friday night hoping to sweep North Putnam in a girls and boys basketball doubleheader. They did just that, winning the girls’ game 66-26 and the boys won 74-56. Stacy Payton, who plans to play softball at Ball State, had other goals on her mind Friday. The senior set the school scoring record with 51 points...

Greencastle and Sullivan split a pair of Western Indiana Conference basketball games on Friday night, with the Tiger Cubs forcing more than 30 turnovers in the girls’ game in recording a 58-42 win and the Arrows draining eight 3-pointers in the boys’ game on their way to a 49-37 victory...