Local & State News

Donna Adams, also known as Donna Benton, 37, formerly of Columbus, Indiana, was sentenced Thursday in Marshall Superior Court No. 1 to 25 years imprisonment for Child Molesting as a Level 1 felony.  In open court, Adams admitted that in ... Read more...

Starke County Police Officers were dispatched to the Grovertown Truck Stop on US 30 around 11 a.m. Thursday morning for an intoxicated subject who was injecting an unknown drug in the bathroom. Hamlet Police arrived on scene and took ... Read more...

On Wednesday May 4, at approximately 9:55 p.m. an officer with the Marshall County Police Department arrested 37 year old Dana Honeycutt of Rochester for driving while suspended with a prior charge following a traffic stop at Michigan ... Read more...

Marshall County Police Officer Joe Giordano stopped a vehicle in Bourbon for an equipment violation at US 30 and Fir Road Monday evening May 2nd just before 7.   32 year old Daniel Hecker Jr. of Hammond was arrested by a County Officer ... Read more...

The 34th annual Marshall County Spelling Bee was held Tuesday, May 3rd at the Culver High School. The winner was Graham Barger a 7th grader from Lincoln Junior High School. The 2nd place student was Aubrey Vervynckt a 6th grader from St. ... Read more...

May is National Electrical Safety Month, and NIPSCO is joining the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) to raise awareness about potential home electrical hazards and the importance of electrical safety. ESFI sponsors National ... Read more...

The Marshall County Sheriff’s Department will participate in the national and statewide 2016 Click It or Ticket enforcement mobilization May 6th through the 30th. Officers will join more than 250 state and local law enforcement ... Read more...

This evening, Thursday, May 5 PHS football players and prospective incoming freshmen players and their parents should plan to attend an informational meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. Everyone will gather in the multi-purpose room at the high ... Read more...

Jason Peters presented the Marshall County Commissioners with the 2016 Road Program during their meeting Monday morning. The Plan indicates the roads the county will grind this year, those that they are planning to put back to chip and ... Read more...

The Freedom Park Committee will be hosting a craft beer tasting event called Summer Sippin’ Craft Brew Fest on Saturday, June 25 at River Park Square in Plymouth, IN. All proceeds for the event will go toward phase 2 of the ... Read more...

Michele Riise, Superintendent of the Argos Community Schools made the following state after the referendum failed in the May Primary.  “We are very disappointed with the referendum not passing, but am hopeful that a plan can be created ... Read more...

An investigation of suspected drug activity lead to the arrest of four people on Monday. County Police Officers Jonathan Bryant and Joe Giordano initiated an investigation at the Sea Lane Apartments at Lake of the Woods Monday evening. ... Read more...

The United Way of Marshall County (UWMC) honored those who help the organization meet needs in the community at its annual awards event. Companies who ran successful United Way campaigns and individual who contributed in various ways were ... Read more...

Continuing the mission of concern for community, Operation Round Up awards local non-profits with grants to support the work they do in the community. On Tuesday, April 26 the Marshall County REMC Operation Round Up board awarded six ... Read more...

The Town of Bremen is planning a number of events for Indiana’s Bicentennial this year. The main event is the revival of Oktoberfest. This will include 100 plus craft and specialty vendors, amateur and professional entertainment, food ... Read more...

The North Central Indiana Association of Realtors (NCIAR) will be sponsoring their annual Shred for Food event from 10 AM to 12 Noon on May 21, at the old K-Mart parking lot on Oak Road in Plymouth. Members of the NCIAR board include real ... Read more...

The 65th Annual National Day of Prayer is Thursday, May 5.   Annual observance on the first Thursday of May, the event invites people of all faiths to pray for the nation. It was created in 1952 by a joint resolution of the United States ... Read more...

Technical difficulties with the 3 voting machines used in the Marshall County Clerk’s Office for absentee voting delayed primary voting results on Tuesday night. Marshall County Clerk Treasurer Deb VanDeMark said the three machines ... Read more...

On Sunday morning, May 1st at 5:19, an off-duty South Bend Firefighter Medic noticed a vehicle that had ran off the south side of Veterans Parkway just east of the intersection with U.S. 31. The driver, 16 year old Alexander Rostron of ... Read more...

The Argos School Board has a huge challenge in front of them with voters rejecting the referendum. The referendum would have allowed the school to impose a property tax levy of up to 61 cents per $100 of assessed valuation for the next 7 ... Read more...