Starke County News

A former Starke County doctor who pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally sell controlled drugs faces another federal indictment, this time for forging a doctor's signature on a prescription.

A six-week investigation by the Indiana State Police and other police agencies has led to the filing of felony drug charges against a Rochester, Indiana couple.

A six-week-long investigation netted hundreds of marijuana plants and a key arrest Wednesday, state police said.

Medicare program offered Friday Community Services of Starke County and Northwest Indiana Community Action Corp.

A man on temporary release from prison allegedly stole a tow truck in Plymouth and was killed in a crash in Hamlet during a police chase into Starke County.

A stolen wrecker hauling a van, involved in a police pursuit late Thursday night, went airborne for more than 200 feet off the overpass at U.S. 30 and Ind.

GROVERTOWN a * Police are now saying a suspected meth lab is what started a high-speed police chase that ended with two people dead.

Story was first posted at 12:56 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. STARKE COUNTY - Two Plymouth residents are dead and another Plymouth resident is in stable condition after a car crashed into a tree Friday night in Starke County.

Two people are dead after a police chase in Starke County last night. According to Indiana State police the Starke County Sheriff's department was involved in a high-speed pursuit of a Ford Mustang shortly after 10:30 last night.

Prices of high-quality farmland continued to show strength in a series of early fall sales in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, despite the recent weakness in commodity prices.

The Starke County sheriff now believes inmates started a fire that forced the evacuation of the county jail Sunday night.

Reid Gault, principal at Lincoln Junior High, talks with Mary Wood, teacher for Plymouth Alternative Learning School.

Authorities said a fire was deliberately started inside the jail in northern Indiana's Starke County, forcing the evacuation of all prisoners from the building.

Story was first posted at 3:18 a.m. Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. Starke County officials are investigating circumstances surrounding a fire that broke out Sunday evening at the county's jail on North Pearl Street in Knox.

The court fight over whether Porter County can leave the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority continues to take its twists and turns: The case will be venued to another county, while the county auditor and treasurer seek county funds to hire their own attorney in the case.

A man went peacefully with police Monday after a standoff at his Knox home. A Starke County police officer went to serve a protective order at a home in the 700 block of S. East Street around 11 a.m. The order required David Gloser to leave the home, but he refused.

"There ain't any finer folks livin' than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket." -- Will Rogers I've always been perplexed by dirt-poor Republicans and well-to-do Democrats.

When you think of local communities the recession has hit hardest, the town of Knox may not even cross your mind.

Reagent Chemical and Research has chosen the Knox Industrial Park for its new rail car facility.

The Heart Cart Mobile Screening Unit will visit throughout the region in September to offer discounted heart and vascular screenings to the community.