Wayne County News

The Wayne County Health Department makes routine inspections of food service establishments for employee practices, food storage and handling, food temperatures, utensil washing, restrooms and general sanitation.

Once introduced, the legislation will add new penalties including longer prison sentences to the list of punishments negligent drivers could face.

A national engineering firm has been hired to compile the preliminary report on how to overcome wastewater problems that have arisen with the growth of Really Cool Foods.

Marcia Skaggs can't wait for Tuesday night's premiere of the new ABC drama 'V.' Already, she and her husband, Don, have been recording and reviewing the advertising trailers for the show, examining each detail.

Tim Rogers might wish the problems surrounding grease disposal by Really Cool Foods at the Gateway Industrial Park were as simple and defined as those being tossed about by critics objecting to tax dollars being used to further what they see as the narrow interests of a private business.

A Greens Fork man was arrested Thursday afternoon on a warrant alleging that he was a heroin dealer.

First it was Midwest Living and then it was the Cincinnati Enquirer. Now Wayne County has been featured in Cleveland Magazine.

An old drug is making a comeback and law enforcement officials say it's leading to deaths across the state.

Campbell Auto Sales, 43 S. Eighth St. advertised a used 1929 Ford Roadster for $75. A new hard surface drive at Earlham College was a gift of the classes from 1932 through 1935 and was commerated with a bronze tablet on a large rock.

Friends and family of Lola Clarke of Richmond are invited to shower her with cards in honor of her 104th birthday Tuesday.

A break-in suspect was in serious condition Friday, Oct. 23 after officials from the Preble County Sheriff's Office say he was shot after trying to invade a home Thursday night.

One person has been taken to Miami Valley Hospital by Careflight after being shot.

A shortage of H1N1 influenza vaccine caused the Wayne County Health Department to cancel the afternoon immunization clinics scheduled for Tuesday and today at the county health clinic.

In Wayne County, who has health care coverage? What about health care? It's confusing, isn't it? Both nationally and in local forums, people are at each other's throats yammering at everybody who proposes something difference from their plan to reform health care insurance.

Law enforcement officials are applauding the life sentence handed to a Richmond man who was convicted of distributing crack cocaine in Wayne County.

ECONOMY, Ind. - The Wayne County Sheriff's Department is awaiting reports from tests done on a teen who was found dead on his bed Wednesday in Economy.

The Wayne County Sheriff's Department released a photo this morning of a man wearing a blue surgical mask who robbed a gas station at gunpoint Sunday morning near Cambridge City.

The H1N1 vaccine has arrived in Wayne County, Ind., as health officials received several hundred doses of the nasal vaccine.

MILTON, Ind. -- Indiana 1 will reopen Saturday in Milton, 444 days earlier than the construction contract deadline.

Steve Borchers, executive director of the Wayne County Foundation, was the featured guest on 'P-I Live!' Thursday.