04/11/13 On Tuesday, April 9th at approximately 12:37 P.M. the Starke County 911 Dispatch Center received a call of a female that had jumped out of a moving vehicle on State Road 8 near County Road 600 East, just east of Knox. Arriving at the scene officer’s located 23 year old, Alicia Husband...
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04/09/13 On Thursday, April 4th at approximately 3:00 P.M. the Starke County 911 Center received a call of a person who had fallen out of a bed of a pick-up truck and was lying in the middle of the roadway. Officers with the Starke County Sheriff’s Department, Starke County EMS and North Judson...
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09/25/12 On Saturday, September 22nd at 8:15 PM ,the Stark County Dispatch Center received a call from Norfolk Southern advising of an accident on the railroad tracks on Division Road in Starke County. Upon arrival of a Knox City Officer, dispatch was advised that a Norfolk Southern repair truck on the railroad tracks had...
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08/17/12 On Wednesday, August 15th at approximately 5:04pm. The Starke County 911 Dispatch Center received a report of a motorcycle vs. tree accident on State Road 10 just west of the Bass Lake Beach. When emergency responders arrived they found a single rider unconscious but still breathing on the ground next to the...
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04/26/12 Selected Furniture, LLC, a manufacturer of commercial furniture, announced plans today to relocate its operations from Chicago, Ill. to here, creating up to 100 new jobs by 2014. The company, which supplies customers in the fast food, quick-service and fine dining industries, will invest $1.22 million to purchase and equip a 200,000...
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04/26/12 Indiana Conservation Officers cited a Chicago man for illegally taking a wild turkey by the aid of bait on the opening morning of Indiana’s spring wild turkey season. Indiana Conservation Officers Keith Wildeman and Major Terry Hyndman were on foot patrol in Starke County on property that was known to be baited....
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02/27/12 Indiana Conservation Officer Keith Wildeman was contacted by two fishermen who made a surprising discovery on the Kankakee River in Starke County on Sunday. Jeff Brewer and his father Steve Brewer discovered a dead alligator stuck in a logjam about 2 miles downstream from the English Lake public access site. The Brewers...
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02/17/12 Shortly before 9:00 a.m. Thursday troopers with the Indiana State Police Emergency Response Section (ERS) and a K-9 officer from the Bremen Post assisted the Starke County Sheriff’s Department in locating a wanted subject that fled on foot. While on patrol, a deputy with the Starke County Sheriff’s Department recognized Jeff Knoebel,...
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09/22/11 A police chase that began in Starke County Tuesday afternoon ended in Marshall County with the suspect’s vehicle being involved in an accident. About 4:15 p.m. (CST) a Starke County Detective received a call in regards to a possible intoxicated driver in a red Jeep leaving the area of 900 E and 300...
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09/06/11 Steel tank manufacturer Sabre Manufacturing, LLC announced today that it will expand its operations here, creating up to 25 new jobs by the end of 2012. The company, which manufactures temporary fluid storage equipment tanks for the environmental, oil and gas industries, will invest more than $640,000 to purchase and equip 15,500 square...
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