Lawrenceburg News

There's no reason to whine if you have nothing planned for this Saturday, May 25: trot yourself down to Aurora's new dog park at Manchester Landing.

Both Dearborn County commissioners and council members voted to increase the budget and size of a proposed Dearborn County jail expansion/renovation during meetings held Tuesday night, May 21, at the county administration building.

Less than 24 hours after finding Charles R. "Steve" Stephenson guilty of murder and robbery, the jury recommended he be sentenced to life without parole.

Cell phone records place Charles R. "Steve" Stephenson's cell phone in the Lawrenceburg-Aurora area the morning and evening of Leigh Jennings' murder, according to testimony Tuesday, May 14, in Dearborn Circuit Court, Lawrenceburg.

In the next five years Purdue Extension Service Master gardeners are planning to create heritage landscaping around the historic Vance-Tousey House in Lawrenceburg.

The ongoing distribution of $2 million of riverboat gambling revenues by the City of Lawrenceburg to Dearborn County's three school corporations will help the schools upgrade technology, pay for homework help lines, continue Project Lead the Way courses and provide guidance counselors.

In its second month of head-to-head competition with the new Horseshoe Cincinnati, Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Ind., saw revenue plunge 34 percent.

A murder defendant sheds tears during his trial in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Steve Stephenson got emotional today when the prosecutor showed pictures of the woman he is accused of killing-Leigh Jennings of Aurora last March.

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. - The trial of Charles Stephenson - the man charged with beating an Aurura, Ind., resident to death in her apartment kitchen - will continue Thursday morning with more testimony in the case.

Signs of spring are popping up all over. Some of those signs are actual signs and others are routine topics at city meetings.

The next regularly scheduled Dearborn County Redevelopment Commission meeting is 4 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at the county administration building, 215B W. High St., Lawrenceburg.

Dearborn County Hospital's next blood drive, in association with the Hoxworth Blood Center of Cincinnati, will be 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, May 16, in the conference rooms of the hospital, 600 Wilson Creek Road, Lawrenceburg.

Learn about mental illness from those who have mental illness at "In Our Own Voice," co-sponsored by NAMI Southeasten Indiana, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and Lawrenceburg Public Library.

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. - Jury selection in the case for the Walton, Ky., man accused of beating a woman to death with a pepper grinder and a skillet begins Monday.

Look around Lawrenceburg, Greendale or Dearborn County and you would be hard pressed to NOT find something in which Elizabeth "Betty" McLaughlin was involved.

Paging through communities where his Ball State students have done projects, Scott Truex offered ideas to Aurora officials and others.