Wells County News

A four-block area of downtown Bluffton, including the Wells County Courthouse, was evacuated Tuesday after an underground natural gas line was damaged.

Unemployment rose in Allen County and most of northeast Indiana in October after months of steadily improving reports.

Habitat for Humanity of Wells County wants to build three houses on Blufftona s west side.

A wagon trapped a man in Wells County on Wednesday morning, leaving him in serious condition, police and hospital officials said.

NOBLE & WELLS Counties, Ind. - Authorities say a medical condition contributed to the death of a deer hunter in Noble County.

It still bothers Ann that she didn't recognize her attacker. She had met Toby Schwartz once before, in the turn-of-the-century barn on her farm in southern Allen County.

When: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today - emergency medical workers are welcome What: H1N1 injection vaccine Who: Pregnant women; ages 6 months to 18 years; caregivers of infants younger than 6 months; ages 25 to 64 with chronic health conditions What: H1N1 nasal spray Who: Healthy people ages 2 to 24 years; people up to age 49 who care for infants ...

A bankruptcy filing in North Carolina has created problems for some hog farmers in Wells County.

The Wells County Mental Health Association will sponsor its fourth annual Parents Night Out to be held at the Wells County 4-H Building, 1240 South 4-H Road, on Monday, Nov.

Chris Smith, school board president of Southern Wells Community Schools, summed it up best last week following the news that voters had OK'd a tax increase to provide additional money for the rural district.

Allen County officials will continue providing a second dose of the H1N1 vaccine to children this week and have added the seasonal flu vaccine back into the mix.

Howard County Arrests Tuesday, 9:46 p.m., police arrested Gregory L. Darden, 51, 300 block of West Harrison Street, at Markland and Courtland avenues, on a warrant for failure to appear.

The husband accused of killing his wife, Amy White of Geneva, at a rural Bluffton location on Tuesday has told Wells County authorities that he and his wife were carrying handguns when they argued about visitation with their 16-month-old son.

An H1N1 flu clinic has been scheduled in Wells County this week. There will be a clinic from 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at New Hope Lutheran Church, 8824 North Indiana 1 in Ossian, county officials said in an e-mail. No appointment is necessary, and the vaccine will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.

Friends are speaking out about a teena s violent death in Wells County Wednesday night.

Four men have been charged in the Wednesday night shooting death of a Wells County teen.

The shooting death of Amy Meyer White in Wells County on Tuesday illustrates how divorce cases can turn explosive, and why diffusing runaway emotions is critical to heading off violence.

Joyce Rinehart of Ossian was shocked when she heard a teenager had been shot and killed near her rural northern Wells County home Wednesday night.

Harsh criminal charges for four young Adams County men in the death of a Uniondale teen.

Justin Sprow was driving country roads in northern Wells County on Wednesday night, arguing over the phone.