New Castle News

NEW CASTLE -- The mother of a toddler who was found wandering a New Castle street this week now faces a neglect charge.

NEW CASTLE, Ind. -- Shane Heidt of Clinton Central scored 28 points to lead the West past the East 82-64 in the Class 2A boys contest during Saturday's East-West All-Star basketball contest at New Castle.

NEW CASTLE - Jerry Hugh Guffey is not the first member of his immediate family to face murder charges in a case involving a car left burning along a rural Henry County road.

With 20 bands playing in two marathon days of live music, Rockin' the Gorge will likely live up to its name.

The New Castle Starbucks is one of 35 Indiana stores that the company will close.

Bond is $5,000. * Anderson police arrested Teddy J. Ely, 32, of the 2300 block of Noble Street, Anderson, at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of East 23rd Street on suspicion of possession of cocaine, a ...

NEW CASTLE -- The city's lone farmers market opens for the first time Saturday, and organizers hope those who have asked for a local food outlet put their money where their mouth is and support it.

Police arrested a second man late Tuesday for his alleged role in the slaying last week of 78-year-old John Collier of Elwood.

Prosecutors have asked for an extra three days to file a formal murder charge against Jerry H. Guffey, and the Madison County Coroner's Office officially ruled 78-year-old John Collier's death a homicide.

NEW CASTLE - A former New Castle man with a long criminal record has been accused of killing a senior citizen in Elwood.

NEW CASTLE -- The food. The games. The entertainment. At the Henry County 4-H Fair, it's all the work of 4-H participants and other agricultural organizations who support them.

NEW CASTLE - Police say a Michigan woman abandoned her teenage daughter at a truck stop and then drove drunk to a nearby hotel with her two younger children.

NEW CASTLE - A third New Castle church was the target of a bomb threat this week, and this time the hoax suspended day care and summer camp activities for 35 children.

NEW CASTLE - Rena L. Malone, 31, 1323 Arrow Ave., Anderson, was charged with two felony counts Monday after she allegedly took controlled substances into the New Castle Correctional Facility over the weekend.

The Readmore building's larger-than-life portrait of jazz legend Hoagy Carmichael, who first recorded at Gennett Records in Richmond in 1925, is officially complete.

NEW CASTLE -- A rural Mooreland man convicted of shooting an acquaintance nearly two years ago faces a possible revocation of his probation after being arrested on new charges in Henry County.

NEW CASTLE - Five New Castle teenagers were injured, one critically, when a car left South Dublin Pike, crashed into a ditch and flipped Wednesday afternoon.

NEW CASTLE - Two New Castle residents who each told police the other had spit on them were arrested this week on preliminary charges of battery by body waste.

NEW CASTLE - Vendors are needed for a new farmers market, set to open July 19 in New Castle.

NEW CASTLE - A New Castle man charged with murder has admitted he stabbed his grandmother to death last fall.