Indiana High School Basketball News

FIRST QUARTER: North has the advantage in age, height and athleticism and is starting to use it.

Leaf pick-up in Bloomfield is now under way. The street department is working rotations of north and south streets and east and west streets.

Owen Valley girls' basketball player Kaitlin Sweatman has verbally commited to Missouri-St. Louis, a Division II school in the Great Lakes Valley Conference with the University of Indianapolis , Southern Indiana and the like.

Paige Spencer got an early start to her basketball season. Practices for the Indiana girls basketball season may officially begin today, but Spencer made official last week her next destination for the sport.

Three coaches at Eastern-Greene High School were given the thumbs-up to stay on the staff for one more year past the current academic year.

South Knox High School big man Mitchell Patton committed today to play basketball at IUPUI.

This is the time of year when college coaches are out evaluating high school prospects at open gyms.

Daleville Little Bronco Girls Basketball is holding its final sign-ups for the year on Thursday from 5-8 p.m. in the Daleville Elementary School cafeteria.

The Herron Charter School boys basketball team will compete in its first season as a full Indiana High School Athletic Association member playing a schedule that rivals most Class 2A programs, according to Herron athletic director Vince Stennett .

The Barr Reeve School Board ended its budget hearing meeting Wednesday night and then adopted the proposed capital projects budget and school bus replacement plan for 2010.

Hamilton Heights junior Jessica Carr has orally committed to attend Valparaiso University to play basketball.

A A Who's a good Bo? See the Obama family's frisky new Portuguese water dog pup, Bo, sink his paws into his classy new digs: the White House.

A Monrovia High School coach and teacher has resigned after he was accused of exchanging inappropriate text messages with a student.

Children around the nation tuned in to hear President Barack Obama's live speech via the Internet and TV Tuesday afternoon, telling them to stay in school and pursue their dreams.

Nearly a month of activities and events are planned for the 2009 Senior Games which kick off Tuesday at the Rangeline Community Center in Anderson.

A Greene County Commissioner was arrested early this morning by Linton City Police for domestic battery.

YORKTOWN -- Nearly a month of activities and events are planned for the 2009 Senior Games, kicking off Tuesday, Sept.

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In my column today , I wrote about Ron Heflin's influence on Gary's current boys basketball coaches, all four of whom played for Roosevelt's legendary coach.

By STEPHANIE DEBOLT Correspondent BENTON - New faces, expenses and expectations were primary topics Thursday night at the Fairfield School Board meeting as the group met with less than 24 hours before the first bell of the new year rang.