Blackford County News

An Albany man was picked up by Delaware County sheriff's deputies Wednesday night on warrants that he was dealng cocaine in Blackford County.

A suspected meth dealer was arrested late Tuesday, and now faces charges in a neighboring county.

Kevin Ford knows what it's like to fail. Three times NASA rejected his application to join the nation's elite club of astronauts.

With anniversaries ranging from 10 years to 135, local companies are celebrating milestones.

HARTFORD CITY -- Eastern Indiana helped decide the balance of power in the Indiana House in 2008 when the state turned blue, and some early challenges are beginning to mount again.

Indiana Public Radio has announced the cast for its Dec. 5 live radio drama, "A Christmas Carol." Playing Ebenezer Scrooge is Todd Terrell, a teacher at Blackford County High School.

After three months of declines, Muncie and Delaware County's unemployment rate inched back up in October.

HARTFORD CITY - Harold O. Sutton, 90, passed away Thursday, November 12, 2009 at his residence.

The Blackford County Health Department has "ample supply" of the H1N1 vaccine, and will offer it to priority recipients during clinics today and next Saturday.

Something just isn't right when a county's main tool for attracting economic development is to declare itself unattractive.

HARTFORD CITY - A local man wanted in two counties on drunk driving offenses and who threatened to kill himself was arrested Tuesday.

Jennifer Crane, are you reading this? How about Glen Sewell? Crane and Sewell are among 18 Delaware County residents -- and 31 people in East Central Indiana -- due undeliverable refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.

In a county with double-digit unemployment, it doesn't take much to persuade officials to do something - anything - to spur economic development.

HARTFORD CITY - A Hartford City man faces charges over an attack on his ex-girlfriend. Authorities allege Kristopher G. 'Butch' Runkle, 39, attacked the woman after breaking into her East Washington Street apartment on Oct.

GASTON - Hilda Delight Dewees, 92, of Gaston, IN, passed away Sunday, October 25, 2009 at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie.

Blackford County native Kevin Ford is seen on the aft flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery in this Aug.

Explaining the properties of black holes, where they come from and evidence that they exist.

Gov. Mitch Daniels recently appointed two local officials to statewide groups, according to a press release.

MUNCIE -- The H&L Plating & Grinding electroplating factory, at 401 E. Willard St., will be demolished and cleaned up, according to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.

Hartford City, Ind. - The state Department of Natural Resources will hold public meetings Tuesday in northeastern Indiana to discuss the presence of the tree-killing emerald ash borer beetle.