Stories from Wednesday, May 17, 2017

A Putnam County jury deliberated nearly five hours Wednesday night before returning a guilty verdict on one of two criminal charges against Robert Eugene Young, 60, Cloverdale, in a March 2016 shooting incident. The Putnam Circuit Court jury of four women and eight men found Young guilty of aggravated battery causing bodily injury, a Level 3 felony, in the shooting of Jeffrey D. ...

Emma Jane (Conklin) Grimes, 91, formerly of Greencastle, passed away Wednesday, May 17, 2017 in Marietta, Ga. She was born July 22, 1925, in Greencastle, to Charles D. And Ethel (McDonald) Conklin. Emma Jane is survived by her daughters, Nancy Grimes Webb of Indianapolis and Susie Losin (Dennis) of Marietta, Ga., two grandchildren and five great- granddaughters...

Larry Kent Foulke, 69, of Greencastle, passed away at home, surrounded by his family on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 following a two-year battle with cancer. He was born March 9, 1948 in Clay County, the son of Windell and M. Virginia (Lowdermilk) Foulke...

Rexford (Rex) D. Skillman, 95, of Bloomington, and previously from Coatesville (Heritage Lake) and Danville, passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 14, 2017 in Bloomington. Born Oct. 30, 1921 in Fairland, he was the youngest of eight children of Leroy and Tilda Jane Jonas Skillman...