Stories from Wednesday, January 25, 2017

DANVILLE — Greencastle continued its successful ways in swimming on Monday night, winning a triangular meet over North Montgomery and Danville. The Tiger Cubs defeated the Chargers 95-88, and had an easier time with Danville in a 113-72 win. “After the excitement of last weekend, it was great to cap off our regular season with a pair of wins,” Greencastle coach Kent Menzel said. ...

ROACHDALE — The North Putnam Cougars celebrated their Senior Night on Tuesday as they hosted the Turkey Run Warriors in girls’ basketball action, extending their celebration with their second win of the season with a 40-17 victory. “We played well defensively. I believe that that was the reason we were able to win the game,” North Putnam head coach Jarrod Duff said as his Cougars improved to 2-19 on the season...

MONROVIA — During halftime of North Putnam’s recent boys’ basketball game at Monrovia, a different set of Cougars and Bulldogs battled on the court than had done so in the first 16 minutes of the game. And they were a hit. Both schools had teams of intellectually disabled students, with one traditional student on the court with them at the same time (called “partners”) to help with the flow of play...

Greencastle kept the tempo at its pace for three-fourths of Tuesday night’s boys’ basketball game against visiting Cloverdale, not wanting to get into a run-and-gun shootout with the high-scoring Clovers. The tactics worked, as the Clovers only led by one point on two occasions during that period until late in the third quarter...

Indiana State Police personnel have fallen victim to the recent criminal trend of credit card skimming. It was recently discovered some ISP fuel cards were compromised and one particular card was used for more than $1,000 in fraudulant charges. All the affected cards were used at one particular central Indiana gas station, the identity of which has not been disclosed...

PUTNAMVILLE -- At a post meeting Wednesday, the Indiana State Police Putnamville District recognized six individuals for longevity and one for accident-free driving miles. The six officers recognized for longevity were presented certificates and uniform insignias indicating their years of service, from district commander Lt. Dan Jones...