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Blaze damages four apartment units on Wood Street

BY MARIBETH WARD, Staff Writer

GREENCASTLE -- Jerry Waggoner had a rude awakening around noon today. A loud boom woke him up. He looked outside and saw sunshine and blue skies, then went to his computer to check his e-mail. The next thing he knew, two...

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Police investigate missing person

GREENCASTLE -- The Greencastle Police Department is investigating a missing person complaint. The police are looking for Gerrick Steen, 18. He was last seen on Tuesday 7 p.m. on Manhatten Road approximately half a mile north...

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'Back to the farm' at Ag Breakfast

By SHANNEN HAYES, Staff Writer

GREENCASTLE -- Ag Week officially kicked off in Putnam County Tuesday morning with the annual Ag Breakfast. As part of the week's theme "Why Farmers Do What They Do," three recent Purdue University graduates spoke about...

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Rotary supports polio eradication

GREENCASTLE -- Children growing up in Greencastle in the 1940s and 1950s feared going to swimming pools and playing with friends. They heard about classmates being paralyzed and living in iron lung machines. John Carson...

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Going Green

By MARIBETH WARD, Staff Writer

GREENCASTLE -- Morris Taylor wanted to be a clown but never had the nerve to pursue his dream. For the past five years, he has found an outlet on St. Patrick's Day for clowning around. Every March he dons his green shoes and...

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Jury convicts Ky. man in fatal 1979 attack in Ind.
MARION, Ind. (AP) -- An Indiana jury has found a Kentucky man guilty of murder in the 1979 killing of a man who was shot in the head and had his throat cut....
Ind. Supreme Court steps into IHSAA legal dispute
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Single mother Valerie Watson moved her family from Elkhart to South Bend following a foreclosure on the family's home, but the Indiana High School Athletic Association said the real reason was so her daughter could play for a basketball powerhouse....
Ind. gov. signs ethics, slot winnings withholding
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has signed into law a bill tightening ethics and lobbying rules for lawmakers and the executive branch....
Ind. Supreme Court steps into IHSAA legal dispute
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The state Supreme Court will decide whether the Indiana High School Athletic Association acted unfairly when it ruled a standout girls basketball player ineligible after she changed schools following a foreclosure on the family's home....

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Blaze damages four apartment units on Wood Street (Updated 9:17 pm)
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Low: 36

Tomorrow

Mostly Sunny

High: 66
Low: 41

Friday

Partly Sunny

High: 66
Low: 45

Saturday

Chance Rain Showers

High: 57
Low: 37

Sunday

Chance Rain/Snow

High: 47
Low: 29

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High: 44
Low: 29

Tuesday

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High: 51
Low: 36

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Most recently recorded earthquakes in the Central U.S. from the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (Times in Central):

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2.2 03/17 03:41 7 mi E of Hector, AR

2.5 03/16 16:46 8 mi E of Hector, AR

2.2 03/15 17:20 9 mi E of Hector, AR

2.1 03/14 09:46 8 mi E of Hector, AR

2.4 03/14 07:01 8 mi E of Hector, AR

1.5 03/13 19:15 2 mi WNW of New Madrid, MO

2.1 03/13 17:25 8 mi E of Hector, AR

2.0 03/13 13:56 9 mi E of Hector, AR

3.1 03/13 03:02 14 mi ESE of Hinton, OK

1.5 03/12 16:38 7 mi NNW of Dyersburg, TN

3.4 03/11 17:57 14 mi E of Hinton, OK

1.6 03/10 15:19 2 mi E of Manila, AR

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