Dearborn County News

In the next five years Purdue Extension Service Master gardeners are planning to create heritage landscaping around the historic Vance-Tousey House in Lawrenceburg.

The ongoing distribution of $2 million of riverboat gambling revenues by the City of Lawrenceburg to Dearborn County's three school corporations will help the schools upgrade technology, pay for homework help lines, continue Project Lead the Way courses and provide guidance counselors.

The next regularly scheduled Dearborn County Redevelopment Commission meeting is 4 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at the county administration building, 215B W. High St., Lawrenceburg.

A jury of seven women and four men heard about that possibility during opening statements and preliminary testimony in the murder and robbery trial of Charles "Steve" Stephenson, Walton, Ky., in Dearborn Circuit Court Wednesday, May 8. Stephenson is accused in the beating death of Leigh Jennings, 67, Thursday, March 29, 2012.

In two days of jury selection, most Dearborn County residents questioned didn't remember much about the gruesome murder of Leigh Jennings.

Teenagers were swarming the table to collect their T-shirts and hoodies earned by correctly answering trivia questions, as well as to sign up for the big prizes of an iPod and a hand chair, there was other swag available for Photos by E.S. Russell/The Journal-Press: Lawrenceburg High School science teacher and recycling coordinator Bob Brookbank, ... (more)

Well-respected Dearborn County resident, Robert "Red" Hoffmeier was recently honored for his dedication and service to the Dearborn County Hospital Board of Trustees.

Dearborn County Hospital's next blood drive, in association with the Hoxworth Blood Center of Cincinnati, will be 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, May 16, in the conference rooms of the hospital, 600 Wilson Creek Road, Lawrenceburg.

In honor of National Public Service Recognition Week, the Dearborn County commissioners have planned a week of appreciation events for county employees and volunteers.

It's been a busy year for Dearborn County Citizens against substance abuse as the group continues to raise awareness of drug and alcohol abuse and addiction.

A Fishers woman died and a child was critically injured in a crash about 6 p.m. Monday in southeastern Indiana.

Look around Lawrenceburg, Greendale or Dearborn County and you would be hard pressed to NOT find something in which Elizabeth "Betty" McLaughlin was involved.

Floyd Superior Judge Susan Orth and lawyers preparing for the first trial of triple-murder suspect William Gibson have begun the tedious process of combing through questionnaires to find jurors.

When Leigh Jennings mother didn't hear from her doting daughter a year ago, she told police the name of a man she was seeing-a man she met at the Boone County hair salon where she worked.

The public is invited to attend the Dearborn County Historical Society annual meeting at Carnegie Hall in Moores Hill at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Carnegie Hall is the last remaining major building from the former Moores Hill College, founded in 1854 as the Moores Hill Male and Female College.

State Rep. Jud McMillin, R-Brookville, and Randy Frye, R-Greensburg, will hold a third house meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 20, at the the Dearborn County Chamber of Commerce, Lawrenceburg Join your representatives as they share important issues as this legislative session draws to a close in the coming weeks.

Updating this April 8th ILB entry headed "Bond reduction denial reversed today by COA in Acapulco restaurant chain raids," Erika Schmidt Russell reported yesterday in the Dearborn County Register : Last week, the Court of Appeals of Indiana instructed Dearborn Circuit Court "set a reasonable bond amount based upon the relevant statutory factors" in ... (more)