Johnson County News

Rafaela Amador holds her 5 month old son Caleb during breakfast at Esperanza En Jesucristo, at the new location at 622 N. Madison Avenue in Greenwood.

Eight-year-old Emily France is impressed with her Montessori academy's new location.

Health departments across Indiana prepare to distribute new doses of the H1-N1 vaccine.

The Avon Marching Black and Gold recaptured the Class A high school marching band state title Saturday night, with last year's champion - Lawrence Central - coming in second.

The Johnson County community hopes an economic stimulus grant for transportation will hasten its plans to build an east-west thoroughfare and set the stage for a new Interstate 65 interchange.

Dressed as ghosts, ghouls, goblins, superheroes, fairy princesses and more, area children will make the rounds of Southside Indianapolis and Johnson County neighborhoods Saturday for Halloween.

A study under way on the future of the Greenwood Municipal Airport could reshape the County Line Road corridor of the Johnson County city.

Donald Wian, 84 of New Whiteland prepares to get a flu shot from nurse Mary Vinson as they were administred by the Visiting Nurse Association at the Johnson County Library in New Whiteland on Monday, October 26, 2009.

A Greenwood woman will receive a state honor for her volunteer efforts with the homeless.

Bail bond agent Kate Sweeney used to thrive when the economy tanked. Usually when jobs disappear, crime goes up, and so does her business.

A truck fire closed I-65 in Johnson County for more than hour today. Charles E. Thompson Jr., 42, Greenwood, was driving his white 1998 semi-tractor north on the highway near the Whiteland exit at 8:10 a.m. when he smelled oil burning, according to the Indiana State Police.

Crews shutdown I-65 in Johnson County for about an hour Monday morning. Officials say a semi with a propane tank caught fire just after 8:00 am on I-65 north, just north of the Whiteland Road exit.

Outdoor retail giant Cabela's is moving aggressively to sell a nearly 100-acre lot that it owns in northern Johnson County.

Johnson County Sheriff's homicide detectives say they've now positively identified a body found in a shallow grave in 2008 as that of a Bosnian man.

Investigators don't know why a Bosnian man whose body was found in a shallow grave might have been in central Indiana or what led to his death.

Johnson County detectives said they have identified a man found buried in a shallow grave at the Atterbury Fish and Wildlife Area last year and said his path to Edinburgh is tinged with international intrigue.

Johnson County received 1,400 doses of the injectable H1N1 vaccine late Tuesday afternoon.

About a year ago, the recession dominated discussions. The question on most minds: Were we beginning to see signs of the economic downturn in our communities? Now, some talk of recovery can be heard -- the stock market is on the rise, and some signs of new development appear here and there.

Edinburgh kindergarten is canceled until Wednesday because of the H1N1 virus. Three students became sick during the weekend and, by the end of the day Sunday, about six students and a staff member were sick, Superintendent Rich Arkanoff said.

An Indianapolis man made repeated phone calls to random women late at night, breathing heavily and moaning before hanging up, police said.