Hurricane Ian has been lashing western Cuba with rain and winds as it swirls north toward the Florida coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Ian hit Cuba early Tuesday as a Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 125 mph. Authorities in Cuba evacuated more than 50,000 people and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says an estimated 2.5 million people are under evacuation orders. Florida is already getting heavy rain from Ian. It is expected to intensify into a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane before its most damaging winds hit the peninsula on Wednesday.
GREENTOWN — Eastern will take out about $2.5 million in general obligation bonds, with the intention of putting that money toward developing its off-campus athletic complex.
An eastern Indiana police officer who died last week after being shot in the head during an August traffic stop was remembered by her fiancée during her funeral as an upbeat person who was the love of her life. Hundreds of mourners, many of them police officers, filled Richmond High School for Monday's services for 28-year-old Officer Seara Burton. The four-year veteran of the Richmond Police Department died on Sept. 18, more than two weeks after she was removed from life support. Her fiancée, Sierra Neal, recalled how they felt an immediate connection when they met during the summer of 2021. They were days away from getting married when Burton was shot.
Baldwin, Rosemary, services are 10:30 a.m. Monday at Brookside Free Methodist Church, 190 E. 400 South, Kokomo.
As sports betting has swept across the country, internet casino games have grown much more slowly. But the online casino market has tremendous potential for growth and expansion, according to participants in a major casino conference. Speaking Friday at the East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City, executives of online gambling companies said the rapid growth of sports betting provides a ready-made infrastructure and regulatory apparatus for online casino games. So far, it's legal in only six states: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, West Virginia, Delaware and Connecticut. But panelists predicted additional states could soon adopt internet gambling, including Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and New York.
Giving a voice to those often seen as the voiceless in our community has been Van Taylor’s mission ever since he started at the Kokomo Rescue Mission around 20 years ago, first as a board member and then as executive director.
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A former Howard County Jail correctional officer who was accused of driving into a group of peaceful protestors during a local Black Lives Matter rally in May 2020 has now been sentenced to 6 months supervised probation for her role in the incident.
PERU — A La Fountaine man who police say assisted in the robbery and killing of another man during a May 2018 incident inside the Okie Pinokie woods just outside of Peru is now planning on pleading guilty for his role in the incident.
Police arrested a Kokomo man recently in connection to the April 2021 death of a 10-month-old boy.
An officer with the Kokomo Police Department is now on administrative leave after he was arrested in connection with a reported road rage and battery incident that occurred earlier this year on the city’s south side.
A Greentown man who police say shot and killed another man at the Vietnam Veterans Campground last week has now been formally charged in the incident.
Two are suing the city of Kokomo regarding a 2021 two-vehicle accident with a Kokomo Police Department officer and are seeking monetary damages to compensate for the injuries they suffered as a result of the accident.
Ron and Karen Eller are like many other couples in their 70s.
The Kokomo Police Department is asking the public for help in locating a man they say stole several items earlier this week from an area grocery store.
It was Sept. 14, 2012, at Camp Bastion — a British military base in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.
A Greentown man was arrested Saturday morning after police say he shot and killed another man after an altercation broke out at the Howard County Vietnam Veterans Campground.
Ryan M. Brassard, sentenced in Howard Circuit Court for operating a vehicle as a habitual traffic violator, to 548 days, with eight days in jail and the balance suspended to supervised probation, with four actual days and four days of jail time credit served. The defendant was also ordered t…
A Howard County jail corrections officer is suing Sheriff Jerry Asher in federal court, alleging that the sheriff is underpaying wages and overtime wages to hourly jail employees in a “systematic, class-wide” manner.
A Kokomo couple was arrested earlier this week for what police are calling their connection to the reported physical and sexual abuse of their four children.
With smiles on their faces, members of the Kokomo Fire Department rolled out the agency’s newest fire truck Wednesday afternoon in front of a crowd of local dignitaries.
A Kokomo man who pleaded guilty last month for his role in a June 2021 shooting at Kokomo Beach Family Aquatic Center that left a 16-year-old critically injured was sentenced Thursday to six years in the Indiana Department of Correction.
Amanda Shafer was a daughter. She was a granddaughter, a sibling, a cousin and an aunt.
PERU — Court documents filed this week through the Miami County Prosecutor’s Office show that a Michigan man who pleaded guilty back in June for his connection to the molestation of two Miami County preteen boys will now serve the next 18 years in the Indiana Department of Correction.
A two-vehicle crash killed a Peru man on Sunday afternoon. According to a press release from the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, Cass County Central Dispatch received a call about a crash on Logansport Road west of County Road 600 E. around 1:06 p.m.
Police are now investigating how an infant died Thursday evening at a residence near downtown.
Two Kokomo brothers were arrested recently for what police are calling their role in a shooting incident last month that left another man dead.
The case against a Kokomo couple accused of abusing an infant boy in early 2020 is now back on the trial calendar after their plea deal was rejected Wednesday morning inside Howard Circuit Court.
INDIANAPOLIS — A Kokomo woman who pleaded guilty earlier this year after being indicted in connection with illegal drug activity was sentenced Tuesday morning to eight years in federal custody.
The Indiana State Police is asking the public for help in identifying a man they believe might have information regarding a burglary that occurred last week at a local business.
Police arrested a former Kokomo resident earlier this week after they say he molested two girls when they were 6 and 8 years old.
TIPTON — A week after the accidental workplace-related death of an employee at a Tipton-based factory, the company’s president has now established a GoFundMe page in that man's memory.
Four-month-old Korie quietly rested in the arms of her mother Wednesday afternoon at Rozzi’s Catering Continental Ballroom, completely unaware of the events going on around her.
Police arrested a Kokomo man recently after they say he had had sexual intercourse with two juvenile females at his residence last October.
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