Stories from Tuesday, April 9, 2024

In a game that saw the two pitchers combine for 28 strikeouts, Northview used a three-run first inning to take a lead that it would not relinquish to defeat Greencastle 5-1 Tuesday night. Chloe Batchelor reached on an error to start the game and scored on a Mianah Thompson single...

Six people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Monday • At 12:38 a.m. Angela M. Carter, 50, Greencastle, was housed at the jail for possession of methamphetamine, possession of paraphernalia with a prior conviction and on an out-of-county warrant...

Don Edward Denny, 87, of Savoy, Ill., died on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 at Danville, Ill. Mr. Denny was born Feb. 20, 1936 in Cloverdale, the son of Willard Doyle Denny and Crystal Branson Denny. He married Phyllis M. Neese in 1954. He married Barbara A. Bohor, who survives him, in 1982...

Genevieve L. Short, age 75, of Poland, went to be with the Lord April 8, 2024. She was born Aug. 8, 1948 in Terre Haute to the late Robert and Mary Evelyn (Leimgruber) Carter. She married John Short in 1971 and he preceded her in death Jan. 12, 2020...