Muncie News

MUNCIE -- Muncie City Council has joined the Delaware County commissioners and Ball State University President Jo Ann Gora in urging U.S. Rep.

We, the members of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 87, fully understand the plight of our mayor and city council in these tough economic times.

First, let's all agree parking meters in the downtown business/hospitality district between Main Street and the railroad tracks are a bad idea.

MUNCIE -- The two people who caused the biggest stir at Monday's emotional city council meeting weren't even present in the packed and sweltering City Hall auditorium.

Ivy Tech Community College might move its culinary arts program into the Patterson Block -- a vacant, 19th-century downtown landmark -- later this year.

Muncie desperately needs a comprehensive master plan. The recent news that the Ball Brothers Foundation has given the administration, through Ivy Tech Community College, a $50,000 grant for such a plan was a welcome and positive sign the city could finally get on track.

MUNCIE -- About 300 people marched about one city block from outside the Muncie Central Fieldhouse to city hall before Monday's city council meeting to show their support for the fire department.

MUNCIE, Ind. - A wallaby missing for more than two weeks might have been spotted in a Muncie neighborhood.

A missing Gaston wallaby has proven to not only be elusive, but hearty. Missing since June 20 from the Gaston home of Carolyn Buck, the young wallaby is alive and well -- and in Muncie -- according to witness reports.

A car-motorcycle crash left one person dead and a portion of Ind. 32 at Gray Street closed for three hours Monday night.

Drunken driving charges against an Anderson police officer arrested in Muncie last month will be dropped if he successfully stays out of legal trouble for a year.

The owner of the rundown Budget Inn motel at 2000 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard has told the city the building will become a Howard Johnson motel.

Muncie City Council President Alison Quirk has filed an ordinance to impose two local option income taxes on all Delaware County residents.

City police said a Muncie woman ended her relationship with an abusive boyfriend Wednesday after he threatened her with a pellet gun - and kicked her cat.

MUNCIE - A four-man crew from Melrose Pyrotechnics in Laporte County is setting up Muncie's 398-shot fireworks display in the rain this afternoon.

Much has been written about Muncie, known internationally as a "Middletown, USA" since the Robert & Helen Lynd conducted their seminal sociological study that was published in 1928.

The America's Hometown Jazz Band is planning a performance on the terrace of Ball State's Fine Arts building on Thursday, July 16, at 7:30 p.m. The event is open to the public and free of charge.

MUNCIE -- City council members are encouraging people who attend Monday's meeting to bring school supplies for needy children.

MUNCIE -- Indiana Michigan Power is cutting down six giant norway spruce trees in Dicky Marvin's front yard and nine more in his neighbor's front yard.

MUNCIE -- Census estimates released Wednesday showed Muncie with 300 fewer residents in 2008 than a year earlier, continuing a trend that has seen the city's population shrink by more than 2,400 since 2000.