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The 2023 budget for Center Township calls for pay raises and stashes away $850,000 for upgrades to Somers Park.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — With the death toll from Hurricane Ian rising and hundreds of thousands of people without power in Florida and the Carolinas, U.S. officials vowed Sunday to unleash an unprecedented amount of federal disaster aid as crews scrambled to rescue people still trapped by floodwaters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties to illegally annex parts of Ukraine, while Kyiv has submitted an “accelerated” application to join NATO. At the Kremlin, Putin and the pro-Moscow heads of the four Ukrainian regions inked the treaties in a sharp escalation of the war. The signing came three days after the end of Kremlin-orchestrated “referendums” on joining Russia that Kyiv and the West dismissed as a bare-faced land grab, held at gunpoint and based on lies. NATO's chief said the war is at “a pivotal moment,” and that Putin’s decision was “the most serious escalation" since the war began. Russia pounded Ukrainian cities, with one strike in the Zaporizhzhia region’s capital killing 30 people and wounding 88.
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Editor’s note: Area faith-based institutions should send their event submissions at least two weeks before the event to Kokomo Tribune Religion Calendar, 300 N. Union St., P.O. Box 9014, Kokomo, IN 46901, or email ktnews@kokomotribune.com. The deadline is noon Wednesday. Be sure to include d…
Martin, Mary, a Mass of Christian Burial will be noon Saturday at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 1229 N. Washington St., Kokomo.
PERU — A Huntington man is under arrest after police say he had inappropriate contact with two juveniles while on a Miami County camping trip in July 2021.
Iranian state-linked media say up to 19 people, including a commander in the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, were killed in an attack by armed separatists on a police base in the eastern city of Zahedan. It was not immediately clear if the attack was related to the nationwide antigovernment protests gripping Iran. The reports did not identify the separatist group. In a separate development, Iran says it has arrested nine foreigners linked to the protests, which authorities have blamed on hostile foreign entities, without providing evidence. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks in an outpouring of anger over the death of a 22-year-old woman.
Indiana State Auditor Tera Klutz says all state tax rebate payments from the state’s budget surplus have been printed and mailed. Klutz says her office “completed printing on September 21 and sent the last batch of automatic taxpayer refund checks to the postal service on September 22.” She says "most Hoosiers who filed a 2020 tax return in 2021 should have received their automatic taxpayer refund via direct deposit or mailed check by now.” Klutz's office says more than 1.5 million checks with the $125 refund were mailed.
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PERU — A Huntington man is under arrest after police say he had inappropriate contact with two juveniles while on a Miami County camping trip in July 2021.
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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.
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