Hemlock News

Friday evening, around 7:00 p.m., officers from the Indiana State Police and Miami County Sheriff's Department responded to a single vehicle crash on that injured three Kokomo, IN residents. via WANE-TV Fort Wayne

Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman is scheduled be the guest speaker at the annual Morgan County Lincoln Day dinner, which will start at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Monrovia Christian Church, 710 Gordon Road in Monrovia. via The Times

“You are not supposed to hear a 'boom.' . . . That means the pilot nudged it too fast. They made a mistake”

KOKOMO, Ind. - Fighter jets routinely practice over rural Indiana skies, but a midair mistake Wednesday night spooked many people. via Star-Press

“The Nature Conservancy has put in about $300,000 toward technical assistance over this six-county area”

Conservation work to restore a wetland and wildlife habitat along the Wabash River near West Terre Haute will begin in 2009 as result of joint federal, state and Vigo County funds. via Tribune-Star

The U.S. Geologic Survey reports that an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 has struck the midwest. via WISH-TV Indianapolis

The Indiana Air National guard says its F-16 fighter jets may have caused loud booms and strings of flare-like lights that lit up the night sky two nights in a row over north-central Indiana. via WANE-TV Fort Wayne

“One of the basement walls has shifted”

By TJ HEMLINGER Staff writer The Columbia City Board of Works was briefed Friday morning on the status of the Hooper House on North Chauncey Street when Todd Zeiger, director of the northern office of Historic ... via The Post & Mail

A student from Marion High School and another from Indiana University Kokomo will have a chance to play basketball with presidential hopeful Barack Obama. via WANE-TV Fort Wayne

“We're going to get the job done and I promise you that”

MUNCIE -- A flood of new voter registrations prompted by the Obama-Clinton presidential contest will be processed in time for the May 6 primary, Margie Landers, Democratic member of the Delaware County Voter ... via Star-Press

“Muncie Sow Unit is now unable to pay for emptying of the manure lagoon to maintain two feet of freeboard”

EATON -- The Indiana attorney general's office recently asked a judge to order a pork producer to explain why he should not be found in contempt of court for violating environmental laws again. via Star-Press

United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger and American Axle chief Richard Dauch met Monday in an effort to end a nearly 6-week-old strike at the auto parts maker. via WNDU-TV South Bend

“It's good news from the fact that the money is out there and available”

To clean up brownfields - former industrial sites - as a precursor to new industrial redevelopment, Evansville will be able to share in up to $2.4 million in federal and state funding. via Evansville Courier & Press

Who could blame Executive Director Jeb Conrad if he slipped up on the name, given how many times it's changed in the past seven years? Wrought from a two-year study of the area's economic development apparatus, ... via IndyStar.com

Indianapolis TV station WISH, Terre Haute TV station WTHI, Indianapolis radio station WIBC, South Bend radio station WSBT and Indiana Public Radio in Muncie each won awards for Outstanding News Operation from ... via WFIE-TV Evansville

He is being held without bond. - Madison County sheriff's deputies arrested Jackie A. Weaver, 56, of the 7100 block of East 47th Street, Indianapolis, at 12:36 a.m. Friday along Indiana 37, south of 1400 North, ... via Herald-Bulletin

A new statewide poll says senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are running about even in their race to win Indiana's May 6th primary. via WFIE-TV Evansville

“He was told he was not doing anything wrong. He agreed to get into the car and they talked for a while and then Mr. Tokarski got out of the car and left. At no point was he handcuffed or ordered inside the car”

Four months after a court victory over environmentalists, state highway officials are pushing ahead with their plans to start work this summer on the first segment of the long-planned Interstate 69 extension ... via The Times

“She was quiet and shy and I thought she was beautiful. Her eyes just sparkled”

Like so many other communities in Indiana and across the nation, the musical voices of students in Rush County would have been silenced as schools cut choral programs under funding pressures except for two ... via Rushville Republican

“You don't make a whole lot of money in public life. That has never been his overriding drive. But you do have to think about that in terms of the family obligations that you have.”

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter, who focused on consumer protection and championed the state's Do-Not-Call list during two terms in office, said Sunday that he would not seek re-election ... via Star-Press

“The actual process of collecting the sap and turning it into maple syrup is more complicated than it looks”

Gone are the days of hanging buckets on the sides of trees. A well-planned system of tubing carries sap from the tree to where it is processed into syrup. via Banner-Graphic