Brookston News

The White County Sheriff's Department said deputies were called to Frontier Elementary School, in Brookston, just before 8 a.m. "School administrative staff immediately secured the hand grenade in an office, away from staff and students, and notified law enforcement," Sheriff Patrick Shafer said in a news release.

May 2nd marks one year since Carmen Schleppy's accident. A first-grader at the time, she suffered third-and fourth-degree burns on 60 percent of her body, after her skirt caught fire near her living room fireplace.

A group of field fires that broke out in Brookston prompted fire crews to respond around 12:30 p.m. Indiana Department of Transportation spokesman Nathan Riggs tells The Indianapolis Star that a project to widen I-69 at the 116th Street/Indiana 37 interchange in Fishers will restrict traffic to two lanes in both directions beginning in June.

WHITE COUNTY, Ind. - White County dispatchers said a fire has broken out in a field on State Road 43.