Bartholomew County News

Bartholomew County public schools are seeing a growing number of third-graders pass the state's IREAD-3 exam, allowing them to advance to fourth grade.

Changes to the plaza at the iconic Cleo Rogers Memorial Library in downtown Columbus will be focused on historic preservation rather than redesign.

Police in Bartholomew County are expanding their search for evidence at a murder scene in Waynesville.

Press conference at noon today regarding Waynesville multiple murder case. We have live video coverage of the event.

Here is a transcript of a telephone call placed to the Bartholomew County Emergency Operations Center by Daniel Burton, who returned to his Waynesville home Saturday, May 11, 2013 and soon after placed a 911 call at 10:39 p.m., when he talked to a dispatcher.

The question of whether a 38-year veteran of the Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department can keep his job is expected to be answered later this week.

Bartholomew County Coroner Larry Fisher tells The Associated Press that all four were shot in various parts of their bodies and that the female homeowner was stabbed several times.

Police, Fire EDITOR'S NOTE: The following information was summarized from the records of city, county and state police, fire and hospital agencies.

According to the Bartholomew County Sheriff Mark Gorbett, the bodies of Katherine Burton, 53, Thomas Smith, 39, Aaron Cross, 41, and Shawn Burton, 41, all of Columbus, Indiana, were discovered Saturday night by Katherine Burton's son, Daniel Burton, 27.

The first of four autopsies on victims of Saturday's quadruple homicide in Waynesville turned up something Monday that Bartholomew County Coroner Larry Fisher said he wasn't expecting: the possibility of multiple wound locations.

A possible lightning strike fried the controls of the backup generator at the Bartholomew County Emergency Operations Center last week, leading it to run unnecessarily for about 11 hours, the County Commissioners learned Monday.

No new details will be released concerning the deaths of four Bartholomew County residents until a news conference Tuesday.

Waynesville is a small town with a big problem. Four people were shot to death late Saturday night - Thomas "Tommy" Smith, Aaron Cross and Shawn Burton were found in the living room, while Katherine Burton Neighbors say drugs have become a problem in the Waynesville neighborhood where four people were shot to death Saturday night.

Special thanks to the city of Columbus, Bartholomew County Code Enforcement, Cummins employees and church volunteers organized by First Christian Church.

A southern Indiana man returning home from work found two people shot to death in the living room, and investigators found two other bodies inside, authorities said Sunday.

Bartholomew County Sheriff Mark Gorbett made a statement just prior to 5 a.m. Sunday May 12, 2013 regarding the discovery overnight of four bodies, found with gunshot wounds in Waynesville home in Bartholomew County south of Columbus, Indiana.

Police, Fire Arrests Tuesday Roger Lee Robinette III, 32, Hartsville, Tenn., warrant, 3:40 p.m., by Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department, released on $35,000 bond.

Ryan Uhls, 34, of 221 Della Road has been sentenced to two and one-half years in prison on a pair of criminal charges related to a hit-and-run accident that severely injured a pedestrian in the parking lot of Caddies Pub last summer.

A storm that produced a tornado warning late Thursday for northern Bartholomew County caused a tree to fall on a house, tree limbs to fall on some roads and a few high water spots, police and an emergency operations official said.

The Elizabethtown man charged with reckless homicide in the hit-and-run death of a Vallonia man is out of jail after his aunt paid his bond.