Bartholomew County News

Traveling to Bartholomew County over the holiday weekend? Pick a designated driver if your plans include alcoholic beverages.

Investigators in Bartholomew County say burglaries are on the rise. On Sunday evening thieves hit three separate locations, all of them churches.

More funding has been made available to Clay County for the ongoing recovery efforts stemming from the June 6, 2008, flood.

A Shelby County man credits God with putting him in the right place at the right time to help save the lives of two young children.

Brown County is working a large fire right now at a junkyard that is on fire called "Cars & Parts". It's at 383 Nelson Ridge Rd which is due east of Nashville near the Brown/Bartholomew county line.

Seven years ago former Carthage resident Nancy Lyons was last seen alive as she left the Wal~Mart parking lot on Rushville's north side shortly before 8 p.m. Later that same evening her vehicle was found at the intersection of CR 700W and CR 500N, just a few miles from her rural community home.

Purdue University re-searchers who conducted a detailed study of Indiana's large livestock farms will offer their findings via videoconference Thursday.

Perry County commissioners agreed with County Assessor Mendy Ward in a June 1 regular meeting that the Continental Apartments should not receive a property-tax exemption, and to employ a Carmel attorney to represent them if the issue goes to court.

Milton F. Hull March 16, 1924 - June 12, 2009 Age: 85 Columbus, Indiana Date of Death: Friday, June 12, 2009 at 10:35 p.m. Place of Death: Columbus Regional Hospital Date of Birth: March 16, 1924 Place of Birth: St.

A husband and father of four who has been missing for more than a week was last seen in Bartholomew County, prompting a search for him that grows more mysterious by the day.

One year after historic flooding swamped Central Indiana, local officials and residents are still picking up the pieces, and some have a long way to go.

Name: Al Roszczyk. New position: Indiana regional president for First Financial Bank.

Columbus Regional Hospital is marking the anniversary of the June 2008 flooding that closed the facility.

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William Reno's gravestone recovered over the weekend in a burglary investigation was likely stolen from the old City Cemetery.

A Bartholomew County man was injured when he wrecked his motorcycle Wednesday morning in Driftwood Township.

City police closed a series of recent burglaries and recovered many stolen items - including a gravestone from one of the city's more notorious residents, William Reno of the world's first train robbery infamy.

Federal funding will aid Jackson County's efforts to repair a bridge over the East Fork of the White River at Rockford.

Charwood LLC, et al. v. Bartholomew County Assessor - "The Petitioners have challenged the Indiana Board of Tax Reviewa Ys final determinations which upheld the Bartholomew County Property Tax Assessment Board of Appealsa Y interim reassessments of their real property for the 2003 tax year.

Trooper Rachel Eickholtz responded to a personal injury crash involving a pregnant woman on Indiana 11 south of County Road 800 South in Bartholomew County on Friday.