Speedway News

As a child, Jaci Shaw dressed up as Dorothy Gale from the 'The Wizard of Oz' four years in a row for Halloween.

Question: I think you might be missing the bigger picture with running the road course at Indy.

Public school students across Marion County will get H1N1 flu vaccinations Monday, beginning with the most vulnerable.

Along with IPS, elementary schools in Decatur, Pike, Perry, Wayne, Washington and Warren Townships, and Speedway Schools will be involved in the first of a series of clinics for school-aged children.

Police here arrested two men after a car chase that resulted in a crash. Jose Cazares and Alejandro Campos, both 18, were arrested after a chase that resulted in them crashing their vehicle and running on foot.

Many of the 200 people attending Wednesday night's Beech Grove City Council meeting on the budget applauded in favor of keeping public safety dispatch services in the city, rather than transferring them to Speedway-based dispatchers.

The Beech Grove City Council has approved an $8.5 million budget that provides funding for eight Beech Grove dispatchers through 2010.

A state representative wants to help Beech Grove keep its 911 dispatch services headquartered in the city.

The Old Speedway City Neighborhood Association will celebrate its 10th anniversary at 7 p.m. Nov.

Another one is gone. In one week, another national restaurant has closed in Kokomo.

Kroger is closing a three-decade-old store on the Westside that failed despite a nearly $2 million makeover seven years ago.

Imogene R. Brown Phillips, 92, Indianapolis, died at her residence Thursday, Oct.

Funeral services are planned next Monday for retired General Robert G. Moorhead.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Registration is now open for the 2010 500 Festival Princess Program.

Federal, state and county offices will be closed Monday in observance of Columbus Day.

Sewer customers in Speedway should expect to see an 85 percent increase in their bills over the next two years, as the town completes a $31.3 million overhaul of its aging system.

Indianapolis and central Indiana are getting some high altitude publicity this month.

A Monster Mini Golf course now beckons in Avon -- just in time for Halloween. But this isn't your typical miniature golf course.

Westfield's new police chief is coming to the city looking for "a challenge, something different." Joel Rush, who was named to his new role Monday, has spent his 21-year law enforcement career at the Speedway Police Department, and Westfield is glad he decided to switch jobs.

A confluence of factors has again changed what town leaders hope will finally become a fall ritual in Speedway.