Stories from Thursday, January 24, 2019

EMINENCE — No matter the sport, or level at which it’s played, coaches across the board are known to have two objectives for their team. The first being that they continue to improve each day and the second being that they’re playing at their highest level when the end of the regular season rolls around...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Tyreke Key scored 22 points with four of Indiana State's six 3-pointers, freshman Cooper Neese added 14 and the Sycamores beat Valparaiso 70-53 on Wednesday night. Emondre Rickman chipped in with 12 points and Bronson Kessinger had 10 for Indiana State (11-8, 3-4 Missouri Valley). Key and Rickman each scored 10 points in the first half to help Indiana State build an 11-point lead...

The Indiana Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program is providing services as usual during the federal government shutdown and has funding to support benefits through March, Indiana and Putnam County WIC have anounced. Clients are not currently experiencing any changes to their benefits because of the shutdown...

North Putnam High School Homecoming Class Prince candidates are (seated, from left) junior prince candidates Skyler Warren, Aidan Baker and Adam Bonebrake; (standing) freshman prince hopefuls Zach Huff, Gunner Burress and Kovey Jeter, and sophomore prince candidates Jacob Pearl, Tanner Stacks and Ashton Shaw. ...

Homecoming king candidates at North Putnam High School are (from left) Chris Murray, James Duncan and Bryce Smith. Crowning of 2019 Winter Homecoming King and his princes will come between the boys' JV and varsity games Saturday, Jan. 26 with South Vermillion. Other special events Saturday night include Youth Recognition Night and the Indiana Pacers Dunk Crew performing at halftime of varsity contest...

The National Weather Service office at Indianapolis has announced that a wind chill advisory is in effect tonight for counties along and north of I-70. The advisory will be in effect from 11 p.m. Thursday to 1 p.m. Friday.

For demonstrating honesty, Greencastle High School students Mastayzia McCord and Trey Wood have been acknowledged as Character Education Program Star Students for December at GHS.

MARSHALL -- Instead of dinner and a show with your special someone on Valentine’s Day weekend, how about dinner and a Valentine’s themed game? Turkey Run State Park is hosting its Valentine’s Day-theme weekend Saturday, Feb. 16. Couples can enjoy a Valentine’s Day dinner in the Lusk Room at Turkey Run Inn and then take part in “Nature’s Mating Game.”...

The Indiana Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology (DHPA) is asking the public for photos for its annual Historic Preservation Month photo contest. DHPA works to preserve buildings and the built environment, and is looking for photos to celebrate that effort. Specifically the division is photos of something that has been preserved, is in the process of being preserved, or desperately needs to be preserved...

Purdue University Extension and University of Illinois Extension will host a Pasture Management Workshop at The Beef House Restaurant (16501 State Road 63, Covington) on Thursday, Feb. 7. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. EST (4:30 p.m. CST), and the presenters will begin following a Beef House dinner...

County Jail Five people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Wednesday • At 11:20 a.m. Michael W. Summers, 24, Indianapolis, was lodged at the jail on a local warrant. • At 8:56 a.m. James Samuel Miller, 35, Madison, was taken into custody on an out-of-county warrant...

Thanks to a collaboration between the Area 30 Career Center and Vincennes University, students in the automotive trade will be able to get more hands-on with their training. New tools which will now change the way they are taught could spark greater interest in other trades at the local level...

Two men face felony drug charges after arousing suspicion by driving less than the posted speed limit in the passing lane of Interstate 70 Wednesday afternoon. It is the third time in less than two months that a violation of Indiana's so-called "Slowpoke Law" has yielded a substantial drug bust in the same dozen-mile stretch of I-70...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Indiana 4th District Congressman Jim Baird (R-Greencastle) has been selected to serve on both the House Agriculture and the Science, Space & Technology committees. The committee assignments for the new Republican members for the 116th Congress were made by the respective ranking member for each committee...

Though it heads into 2019 with a surplus and a healthily balanced budget, the Putnam County Public Library Board of Trustees is also confronting two critical issues that have affected services to the library’s patrons. During his monthly report Wednesday evening, PCPL Director Brian Briscoe shared that temporary repairs made in the library’s elevator are still being scrutinized. ...