Burnettsville News

Friday 5:34 a.m. - Arrest. Oscar Covarrubias Ramirez, 22, Burnettsville, was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.

A Burnettsville teen accused of breaking into a Logansport tavern last year and stealing booze changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on Tuesday.

Flipping through the pages of the 2008 Indiana Travel Guide quickly reveals that Indiana is a festival-rich state during the summer months.

Q: If a county would want to bring about the changes in structure as suggested by the Kernan-Shepard report, how would they bring it about? The legislature? The commissioners? A petition? I realize this is a ... via Pharos-Tribune

“It's just completely addicting.”

The golden, gray and brown spongeheaded fungi appearing each spring have a magical element about them. via Kokomo Tribune

Friday 6:15 a.m. - Property-damage accident, Ind. 18 and 400E. A vehicle driven by Michael A. Leonard, 49, Camden, went off the road around a curve, spun and slid into a ditch. via Pharos-Tribune

Friday 5 a.m. - Arrest. Samuel Flores, 21, Logansport, was arrested on a charge of failure to appear. via Pharos-Tribune

Governor Mitch Daniels viewed the flooding along the Tippecanoe River from a helicopter today. via WFIE-TV Evansville

BURNETTSVILLE, Ind. - A utility company has repaired a leaking natural gas line that was damaged by flooding along the Tippecanoe River. via NWI Times

“You can't see; it's snowing, the wind is blowing”

Troy Nice looked out over the swollen Tippecanoe River and the houses surrounded by its spilled water. He wondered how his own home had fared as the water began its slow retreat on Wednesday.

'I didn't think it would come up like this,' said Nice, 39. 'I managed to get my guitar, dog, and I got my cell phone charger, and some little things. This is the worst it's ever been.'

Nice returned to this stretch of river a day after fleeing the rising water with hundreds of other residents. The Tippecanoe reached record levels along the 20-mile stretch from a storm that dumped as much as 7 inches of rain in parts of northern Indiana. Read more

Wednesday 1:34 a.m. - Theft. Someone reportedly drove off without paying for $40.01 in fuel from a gas station on U.S. 35 in Galveston. via Pharos-Tribune

“I'm so happy the voters came out”

At the age of 101, Ruth Macklen was among the more than 4,000 people who voted in the Logansport city election this year. via Pharos-Tribune

“The building needs all new wood floors”

After obtaining a degree in business management, Deena Byrkett wanted to find something fulfilling. via Pharos-Tribune