Petersburg News

PETERSBURG - A Pike County man is in custody after authorities say bomb-making supplies were found in his basement.

A man who spent over half his life in prison for murder, has been sentenced again.

Bland-Clark Adrienne Bland and Jared Clark of Indian Rocks Beach, Fla., were united in marriage on the beach at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

An 18-year-old Petersburg woman has been sentenced in a Oakland City robbery. Candace M. Crow, 18, was sentenced four years in prison following her admission to robbing the Oakland City Tobacco Road Food Mart earlier this year.

A key witness in the Gibson County, Ind., murder case against Barbara Earle has died, leaving her defense to believe the case against her has been weakened.

Laura Woolf / Courier & Press From left, Austyn Stierwalt, 11, Carlie West, 11, Lindsey Bilderback, 11, Olivia Kostbade, 11, and Jennifer Cotton, 10, all from Newburgh, make "stained glass" panels with recycled paper during their Journey Through the Girl Scout National Forest.

Austin L. Capehart Jr. and Shirley Norris of Washington were married Sept. 19, 1959, at St.

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Pickett, P.O. Box 9051, Washington, IN 47501, will celebrate their 40th anniversary Sunday.

Heather Dawn Griffith and Nicholas C. Geesaman have plans to wed at 6 p.m. Oct. 10, 2009, at Hawthorns Golf and Country Club by Edward Bennett.

One of the nation's oldest Labor Day celebrations - dating from 1886, or eight years before the national holiday was declared - takes place at the Gibson County fairgrounds here Friday through Monday.

The Indiana Department of Transportation announces that State Road 57 will be closing in Petersburg.

The Indiana Department of Transportation announces that State Road 57 will be closing in Petersburg.

Conrad Indianapolis plans to close a ground-floor lounge used mainly by hotel guests and retool it this fall as an indoor-outdoor wine bar to draw in locals in addition to visitors.

The new additions are Waterloo Grant Township, Pike County, Alexandria-Monroe, and Kendalville and Limberlost Public Libraries.

THE REV. ANTHONY M. BROOKS will celebrate his 41st anniversary as pastor of Seventh Street Baptist Church with a "Thanksgiving in July" banquet at 5 p.m. today in the fellowship hall.

With outstretched arms and legs posed mid-stride, "Runner" is a 23-foot-tall stainless steel outdoor sculpture that may soon symbolize Indiana State University's new Student Recreation Center.

Solar Sources, Inc. of P.O. Box 7; Petersburg, IN 47567; is submitting a Notice of Intent letter to notify the Indiana Department of Environmental Management of their intent to comply with the requirement under 327 IAC 15-7 to discharge wastewater associated with the mining of coal, coal processing and/or reclamation activities.

Former Washington residents, Ed and Kathy Stuffle, 4899 S. Woodbine Drive, Bloomington, celebrated their 40th anniversary April 26.

ERIN McCRACKEN / Courier & Press Bill Henderson sits and talks with his wife, Kathe Henderson, 56, who has multiple sclerosis, in the hallway of Golden Living Center in Petersburg, Ind., last week.

Thursday afternoon, a Pike County Grand Jury indicted former Petersburg Police Chief Joe Hill, 38, and his girlfriend, Andrea R. Hoffman, 33, both of 107 Walnut St., Petersburg.