WASHINGTON — The governing military junta in Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone, the Bush administration said Friday.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Prosecutors will wait until at least next month to decide whether to seek adult charges against a South Bend teenager accused of planning a Columbine-style attack on his high school.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Winthrop “Bill” Williams Jr.’s walk across the commencement stage this weekend at Purdue University will be his second.
The Highland Band Department will present its Plaid & White Revue tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the HHS gym.
Living with her adult daughter was difficult at first for Lisa Dillon.
In August, she welcomed daughter Nicole and her two children into the family home. The arrangement took some getting used to.
Gas prices from around the area for Friday, May 9.
A Pendleton woman was featured on NBC's ‘Today’ show Friday morning as part of a Mother’s Day segment.
Lisa Dillon of Pendleton was interviewed by phone around 9:20 a.m. Friday by ‘Today’ personalities Meredith Viera and Ann Curry. Dillon said she works three accounting jobs, working seven days a week and has adult children living with her.
Grand Theft Auto IV car-jacked pop culture this week.
The controversial and coveted video game sold about six million units in the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3 formats, reaping more than $500 million in worldwide sales.
NEW YORK — Wall Street headed for a lower open Friday after the world’s largest insurer reported a wider-than-expected loss for the first quarter, rekindling investors’ anxiety about the strained state of the global financial system.
CLARKSVILLE, Ind. — A former Clarksville police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for dealing drugs.
Today will not be as wet as Thuraday, but a few showers may still pop up. Expect a mix of sun and clouds, along with pop-up showers and highs in the 60s. The weekend will start dry, with partly cloudy skies and highs near 70 degrees on Saturday afternoon. The end of the weekend forecast includes rain chances. Sunday will be cooler and breeezy too, with highs near 60 degrees.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s roster keeps getting thinner.
Friday marks the deadline for applications to fill Bishop Robert Scott’s seat on the Anderson school board. Who has applied and how might Tuesday’s election affect the selection process.
Also, officials and employees at State Plating will meet to find out what kind of aid they might receive. Plus, a preview of graduation ceremonies at Anderson University.
Look for those stories and more right here and in the Saturday print edition of The Herald Bulletin.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A line of severe storms swept across the Southeast on Thursday, damaging homes and businesses in at least four states. No injuries were reported.
ELWOOD — The Indiana Department of Transportation will officially break ground Monday for a 12.6-mile section of Indiana 37 in Madison and Grant counties.
United Way of Madison County has announced an open certification period through 4 p.m. Friday, May 30, for any health or human service 501(c) 3 organization that would like to request direct program funding through United Way for the years 2008-2011.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Muncie businessman has been sentenced to a year of community detention for abandoning two semitrailers loaded with drums of hazardous waste on someone else’s property.
The Anderson City Council on Thursday unanimously approved early retirement programs for city workers and firefighters.
ANDERSON — The Frankton-Lapel school district’s second in command is getting promoted to the top administrative spot.
LAPEL — Firefighters quickly extinguished a fire near a business that threatened to ignite a pair of large fuel holding tanks.
ANDERSON — A fire investigator said Thursday he believes he’ll know next week what sparked a fire that caused an estimated $750,000 to $1 million in damage to a city manufacturer.
The last of five family members who suffered smoke inhalation after fire swept through their rural Frankton home on Monday have been released from the hospital.
ANDERSON — The first sale of property once owned by General Motors will close in the next two weeks, Economic Development Director Linda Dawson said Thursday.
KOKOMO— Aaron Deakyne of Anderson said he had no idea that his 4-year-old daughter was suffering abuse that police say included being held in closets for weeks while bound with zip ties.
ANDERSON — The Church of God will send $25,000 in immediate disaster and hunger relief funds to Myanmar to help alleviate the suffering and provide money to repair the damaged churches and destroyed homes of congregation members, according to a news release from David Farlow, chief of strategic communications at the Church of God Ministries.
ANDERSON — The Center for Character Development and Character Counts of Madison County recently honored six local people with the 2007 Character in Motion awards.
ELWOOD — Angie Collins has become a teacher’s pet, though it may have taken 22 years and a kidney.
James R. Taylor
MUNCIE — James R. Taylor, 82, died at his home May 7, 2008.
Jahnae Erpenbach, director of marketing for Hoosier Park Racing & Casino, will be guest speaker at the Chamber of Commerce for Anderson & Madison County Women in Business Breakfast Thursday, May 15, 7 a.m., at Elks Lodge 209, 1803 Broadway.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks have closed a quiet session with a moderate advance even as oil prices extended their record-breaking run and retailers reported mixed sales.
The Church of God will send $25,000 in immediate disaster and hunger relief funds to Myanmar to help alleviate the suffering and provide money to repair the damaged churches and destroyed homes of congregants.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Sectarian fighting spread through the streets of Beirut on Thursday as Shiite Hezbollah supporters and the Lebanese government’s Sunni backers battled with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades shortly after Hezbollah’s leader vowed to fight any attempt to disarm his men.
YANGON, Myanmar — Relief supplies from the United Nations arrived in Myanmar Thursday, but U.S. military planes loaded with aid were still denied access by the country’s isolationist regime five days after a devastating cyclone.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — “CSI” co-star Gary Dourdan has been charged with felony possession of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy stemming from his arrest last month, prosecutors said.
KOKOMO, Ind. — The father of a 4-year-old girl said he had no idea that she was suffering abuse that police say included being held in closets for weeks while bound with zip ties.
YANGON, Myanmar — Relief supplies from the United Nations began arriving in Myanmar Thursday, but U.S. military planes loaded with aid were still denied access by the country’s isolationist regime five days after a devastating cyclone.
WASHINGTON — The number of newly laid off workers seeking unemployment benefits dropped much more than expected last week.
Gas prices for Thursday, May 8, 2008.
Firefighters have responded to what is believed to be a compressor fire at Brockway Glass in Lapel.
MUNCIE, Ind.— Ball State University says former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson has accepted an appointment as a visiting professor of public policy.
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NEW YORK — Consumers gave some of the nation’s retailers a little relief in April following months of dismal sales, but business was helped along by heavy discounting that could hurt first-quarter earnings.
A Muncie couple has been accused of sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled woman in their care for more than 13 years, according to the Star Press of Muncie.
NEW YORK — Wall Street headed for a modestly higher open Thursday as investors waited to see if retailers’ April sales figures would provide a sense of how consumers are faring in a climate of economic weakness and rising costs.
INDIANAPOLIS — The Colts have put their tag-team runners — Joseph Addai and Dominic Rhodes — back together.
ELKHART, Ind. — The FBI is investigating a cross burning outside the home of an interracial couple in Elkhart.
Heavy rain is the concern over the next couple of days. Most areas have the potential for 1 to 3 inches of rain through the end of Thursday. A few totals will exceed 4 inches. With the rain today, temperatues will be cooler and in the 60s. The rain moves out for Friday, but the chill lingers with highs in the 60s. Saturday will be dry and mild, but rain chances return for Mother’s Day.
The Anderson City Council is set to meet at 7 p.m. tonight, on the agenda are buyouts for firefighters and other city employees. Plus, the Anderson Redevelopment Commission will consider a request by Liberty Christian School to use former General Motors Corp. property.
Look for those stories and more right here and in the Friday print edition of The Herald Bulletin.
ANDERSON — Tuesday’s primary had the highest voter turnout in Madison County of any primary since 1992.
School board incumbents fared poorly across Madison County on Tuesday, according to election results.
PENDLETON — The Tuesday death of a Correctional Industrial Facility inmate has officially been ruled a suicide.
ANDERSON — Madison County sheriff’s investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying a woman who apparently racked up about $1,400 in fraudulent credit card purchases during a seven-hour period in April.
ANDERSON — A civil lawsuit brought by two Delaware county teens against an Alexandria man after he allegedly opened fire with a shotgun at their vehicle has been settled for an undisclosed sum.
Jeffrey N. Cornwell
Jeffrey N. Cornwell, 47, Anderson, died May 7, 2008, at Saint John’s Medical Center after an extended illness.
Arrangements are pending at Robert D. Loose Funeral Homes & Crematory, South Chapel.
Diana J. Garrett
Diana J. Garrett, 50, Anderson, died May 7, 2008, at her residence.
Arrangements are pending at Brown-Butz-Diedring Funeral Home.
Elizabeth T. Schuster
Elizabeth T. Schuster, 72, Anderson, died May 7, 2008, at Community Hospital of Anderson.
Arrangements are pending at Brown-Butz-Diedring Funeral Home.
Harold DeReu
MUNCIE — Harold “Bud” DeReu, 66, died May 7, 2008, at his residence.
Arrangements are pending at The Meeks Mortuary and Crematory, Washington Street Chapel.
Madison County will receive $200,000 from the Indiana Department of Transportation to go toward the reconstruction of the bridge over the White River on County Road 600 West between Eighth Street and Cross Street.
Anderson High School senior Justin Fuller and Highland High School senior Stormy Holder were the recipients of the inaugural THB Johnny Wilson Award, given today at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Anderson.
ANDERSON — Greg Stacy, owner of Ink’N U Tattoos, will finally have his No. 1 tattoo artist at work.
ANDERSON — Repair work started Wednesday on a broken airport fence that has been described as an eyesore.
ANDERSON — Although North Side Middle School eighth-grader Zach Burkhardt might be an Indianapolis Colts fan at heart, on Friday, he’s going to be supporting the Denver Broncos.
ANDERSON — A new restaurant is bringing more beef to the Anderson area.
Montana Mike’s Steakhouse will build its third Indiana location on Scatterfield Road, near Interstate 69, right across the street from Ryan’s Steakhouse.
ANDERSON — A man faces a charge of child solicitation for allegedly showing a 7-year-old girl a pornographic movie and asking her to touch him inappropriately in August.
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar says 100,000 may have died in the cyclone and that 95 percent of buildings in the affected area are demolished.
Greg Stacy, owner of Ink’N U Tattoos, will finally have his number one tattoo artist at work.
Madison County will receive $200,000 from the Indiana Department of Transportation to fund the reconstruction of the bridge over the White River on County Road 600 West between Eighth Street and Cross Street.
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama moved inexorably closer to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, adding to his lead as time begins to run out on challenger Hillary Clinton.
Gas prices for Wednesday, May 7 for the area.
NEW YORK — The stock market traded lower Wednesday, as investors reacted to mixed economic data and waited to see if oil prices will climb further into uncharted territory.
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WASHINGTON — Worker productivity rose by a better-than-expected amount in the first three months of the year while labor cost pressures eased.
NEW YORK — Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are planning to merge their wireless broadband units to create a new $14.55 billion wireless communications company.
WASHINGTON — Just months ago, ethanol was the Holy Grail to energy independence and a “green fuel” that would help nudge the country away from climate-changing fossil energy.
WASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday the U.S. will send more than $3 million to help victims of the devastating cyclone in Myanmar, up from an initial emergency contribution of $250,000.
INDIANAPOLIS — Jill Long Thompson got by with a little help from her friends.
INDIANAPOLIS — Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged to keep going full throttle for the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday even as she appealed for money to finance her gasping campaign and tried to put the best spin on a disappointing night.
Keep the umbrellas hand tody and Thursday. It will not rain the entire time, but showers and storms will be scattered across the area over the next two days. if you have outdoor plans, the best advice is to check the radar before you head out the door. Temperatures will be in the lower 70s today and in the 60s on Thursday. Friday will be dry with highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s.
Today, more on the primary election that saw Hillary Clinton win a close victory against Barack Obama for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Plus, a new steakhouse is expected to open near Exit 26 and could employ as many as 100 people. Ricker’s also plans a new location, at the corner of 23rd Street and Columbus Avenue.
Look for those stories and more right here and in the Thursday print edition of The Herald Bulletin.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former congresswoman Jill Long Thompson has won the Democratic nomination for Indiana governor.
Long Thompson squeaked out the victory over Indianapolis architect Jim Schellinger Tuesday with 50.2 percent of the votes, according to unofficial results tallied by The Associated Press. She was ahead by nearly 5,500 votes with 99 percent of precincts reporting.
GARY, Ind. (AP) — Indiana’s sometimes-stepchild county held the balance late Tuesday in deciding whether Hillary Rodham Clinton would gain a key primary victory.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Both Democratic gubernatorial candidates told supporters Tuesday that they expected to win their party’s nomination while they awaited late results in a contest that was nearly a dead heat.
When Hillary Rodham Clinton came to Anderson and drew an estimated 6,000 people to the Wigwam for a March 20 rally, it was easy to imagine that she would carry the county when it came time for Indiana’s primary election.
ANDERSON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton decided to stay in Indiana on Tuesday night and gather her supporters at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis.
FAIRMOUNT — Carl Chambers held onto his Madison-Grant School Board seat for Boone Township against challenger Raymond Hiatt in Tuesday’s election.
ANDERSON — Democrats Antony “Ty” Bibbs, Larry Higgins and Brandon McCoy will face Republicans Larry Crenshaw, Mike Phipps and Steve Sumner in November for the three at-large positions on the Madison County Council.
ANDERSON — A former school board member reclaimed her seat by 62 votes, and a newcomer cinched a five-way race by a margin of more than 2,000 votes.
ANDERSON — Kelly Gaskill will face incumbent Democrat Scott Reske for Indiana’s 37th District House seat in the November general election.
ALEXANDRIA — All three contested members of the Alexandria-Monroe School Board were unseated Tuesday.
ELWOOD — Both incumbents in the Elwood Community Schools board’s contested races fell on Tuesday as voters opted for change, picking a pair of mothers who openly worked together during the election.
