Gosport News

Lt. Governor Becky Skillman announced Wednesday that 21 communities and community organizations will share $50 million to buy abandoned or foreclosed homes, demolish or redevelop vacant properties and help low- and moderate-income home buyers purchase properties.

Registration forms for next year's kindergarten students at Smith Elementary School have been sent home with current Smith school students.

Gosport VFW 7850 will host bingo at 7 p.m. each Friday and karaoke the second Saturday of each month from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The post is located at 159 E. Main Street in Gosport.

A southern Indiana man convicted of shooting two men in the head and then hiding their bodies in drums near his rural home has been sentenced to 130 years in prison.

Martinsville Tabernacle Christian School will host a blood drive from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Friday.

If attending next week's Indiana Heritage Quilt show, be sure to come to the Monroe County History Center to see "Red & Green Study Quilts," an exhibit that runs through May 2. "Red & Green Study Quilts" ...

The Graduate and Honors List have been released for the 2008 fall semester at the University of Southern Indiana.

One Martinsville man is wearing two of God's "hats." He is chaplain at Morgan Hospital and Medical Center and he is also pastor at the Hyndsdale Christian Church in the Brown's Crossing area.

If you haven't heard neighborhood Christmas caroling for a few years, it's because not many people are doing it today.

TWO teenagers were jailed for life today for killing a man in the grounds of a Hampshire church.

Two teenage boys have been jailed for life for the unprovoked murder of a 44-year-old father in a churchyard attack.

TWO teenagers were jailed for life today for killing a man in the grounds of a Hampshire church.