Local & State News

Argos High School senior, Hannah Harrell placed 1st in Advanced Interview Skills at the Business Professionals of America State Leadership Conference recently held in Indianapolis. Harrell has qualified for the national conference all four ... Read more...

South Bend resident Karen M. Thomas, 50, pled guilty in St. Joseph County Circuit Court One to unemployment insurance fraud, a Class D Felony. Thomas purposefully defrauded the system by collecting unemployment insurance benefits while ... Read more...

Jurors in the trial of former CEO of Stone Creek Homes, Inc., David Ferguson, will likely begin deliberation on Thursday. Ferguson faces 14 charges including nine Theft (D felonies), one count of receiving stolen property, (C felony), one ... Read more...

INDOT has set a date to remove the bridge that now sends northbound traffic on Michigan Road over the Old US 31.  The actualclosure date for Michigan Road will be Friday March 18th with bridge demolition to start on March 21st, 2016. ... Read more...

Wednesday evening Mayor Mark Senter told members of the Downtown Revitalization  Committee that the first meeting of the new city hall committee will be held Monday.  The 12 person committee is made up of several city department heads, a ... Read more...

Argos Community Schools has received a $2,500 donation from America’s Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund and directed by local farmer Lora Fishburn of Marshall County. The donation will help Argos Community Schools ... Read more...

Wednesday U.S. Representative Jackie Walorski received the endorsement from the nation’s oldest and largest nationwide pro-lifeorganization, National Right to Life, in her re-election bid to Congress in Indiana’s Second District. ... Read more...

On Tuesday March 8, Patrolman Bryant located and arrested 31 year old Allison Hillyer at Gatewood Mobile Home Park for an outstanding warrant. During the encounter she was also found to unlawfully possess a syringe. She is currently held ... Read more...

Congratulations to Plymouth’s BPA team for their performance in Indianapolis at BPA state tournament this past weekend! The following teams and or students qualified for BPA Nationals in May: Garrett Garver placed 3rd in Individual ... Read more...

The Plymouth FFA Chapter, along with six other local FFA chapters, will be hosting the 2016 Marshall County FFA Toy Show and Ag Expo this Sunday, March 13th from 9am to 3pm.  The event will take place inside the Plymouth High ... Read more...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller Tuesday released a list of the top 10 consumer complaints received by the Consumer Protection Division in 2015, with unwanted calls once again topping the list followed by auto ... Read more...

Marshall County Coroner Bill Cleavenger said that 33 year old Ryan Jay Beem of rural Walkerton died from a heroin overdose on February 11th.  Confirmation was obtained through autopsy and toxicology results. Beem died shortly after being ... Read more...

Detective Sergeant Leo Mangus with the Plymouth Police Department arrested 17 year old Raquan Charles McKinstry in South Bend on March 9th for the charge of Armed Robbery.            McKinstry is one of the suspects involved in the ... Read more...

Marshall County K9, Arras assisted in the arrest of an Illinois man Tuesday. About 11:30 Tuesday morning County Officer Jonathan Bryant conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of Michigan and Plymouth Goshen Road on an SUV that had ... Read more...

The Starke County Sheriff’s Office has experienced some circulation of counterfeit bills being passed in the area. The most common being passed is the one-hundred dollar bill. The Starke County Sheriff Bill Dulin would like to encourage ... Read more...

The criminal trial of former CEO of Stone Creek Homes, Inc. of both Plymouth and Central City, Nebraska, David Ferguson, started on Tuesday, March 8. Ferguson is facing 14 counts ranging from nine counts of theft (D felonies), two counts ... Read more...

Daylight Saving Time occurs this Sunday morning at 2:00 a.m. and the Red Cross reminds everyone to TURN AND TEST, turn their clocks ahead one hour and test their smoke alarms. If someone’s home is lacking smoke alarms, residents should ... Read more...

A Plymouth teen ended up behind bars following a incident at 1020 North Center Street on Monday afternoon. Plymouth Police were dispatched to the home at 1020 North Center Street just after 4 on Monday afternoon for the report of a male ... Read more...

Tuesday evening, March 8th, freshmen and sophomore students in the Weidner School of Inquiry at Plymouth High School hosted a showcase event for the community. Freshmen learners in Bio-Art participated in the 3rd annual Clay for Cancer ... Read more...

On Sunday March 6, at approximately 12:30 a.m. an officer with the Marshall County Police Department stopped a vehicle on Michigan Road near 12th Road for a moving violation. The driver, 21 year old Isaiah Good of Argos was arrested for ... Read more...