Colon News

For decades, the 1,200 residents in this rural St. Joseph County community have embraced their Fourth of July celebration in a way that epitomizes small-town tradition.

It was a simpler sort of drug trade. Syracuse police say a 45-year-old man offered a slaughtered pig as partial payment for a bag of crack cocaine.

This sort of thing isn't supposed to happen to kids like Andrew Adams. The Colon High School junior maintains mostly A's, plays three sports and has been known to stick up for the little guy when bullies taunted.

Friday was a big day for a local business in St. Joseph County. More than two years ago, a fire at a bank in Colon left extensive damage.

Joseph County community. Tundevold, meanwhile, said the gist of the issue centers on money that he spent for football-related equipment.

Having his dream job as St. Joseph County's top law enforcement officer, Sheriff Brad Balk is nearing his first 30 days on the job.

A 44-year-old man was arrested after a ``one-pot'' methamphetamine laboratory was found in his Cooper Township home during a raid, police said.

TINY Verne Troyer is a BIG joker whose first love was a pet SHEEP, his doting mum has revealed.

A new enterprise that will give an economic boost to local small farms is on the horizon for 2009 in St.

The racial gap in colon cancer death rates is widening, a new report says, and experts partly blame blacks' lower screening rates and poor access to quality care.

Friday afternoon the BP River Rouge Pipeline was damaged after it hit was struck by a vehicle.

A 47-year-old Howe, Ind., man was killed Friday in a one-car crash that ruptured a gasoline pipeline in St.

Authorities in Colon are responding to a gas main fire. Police have closed Farrand Road at M-86. Police say that a man had a seizure and hit an above ground gas main in his truck.

The spirit of Christmas is already reverberating in Cebu City as over two thousand spectators rushed to Fuente Rotonda Circle to witness the annual ceremonial lighting of the giant Christmas Tree.

The third annual Colon Christmas celebration will be held Saturday in downtown Colon.