Vermillion County News

A judge has rejected a second plea agreement for Brandin D. Bacon, a Vermillion County man accused of killing a 70-year-old motorcyclist in a hit-and-run crash last fall.

Two people are dead after a late night car crash in southern Vermillion County, Indiana.

Unemployment in most area counties dropped slightly or was unchanged in March. Statewide, March's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 8.7 percent was the same as in February, according to the March employment report from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.

It was an apparent computer glitch, not Mother Nature, that tripped an emergency siren this morning in Clinton at precisely 8:11 a.m. "I'm assuming that it's the keypad that shorted out on it, which is a common failure -- that, or the radio receiver itself," said Mark O'Heir, director of Vermillion County emergency management agency.

We recently received data on Indiana's unemployment rate. And, from what I can tell, the last person you want to be in the Hoosier state is a high school dropout who lives in Vermillion County.