Hope News

TRACY Fugate didn't surprise me when she mentioned that 140,000 people last year had visited Strawberry Fields Mercantile - the tea room and store she operates in Hope.

Six area police agencies were involved in the pursuit of Reid on Saturday morning, after he allegedly he stole first one vehicle and then another in Shelby County.

A man who told police he had been awake for more than five days smoking methamphetamine had to be subdued with , was arrested on 11 preliminary charges stemming from the incidents Saturday that started when Reid allegedly stole a vehicle in Shelby County and drove that to a home where he allegedly took another vehicle, telling people outside the ... (more)

VERNON, Ind. - This weekend's Sassafras Tea Festival marks the beginning of re-enactment season for many area Civil War re-enactors. The 51-year-old festival began featuring Civil War re-enactments in 1992, said Pat Rice, vice president of the Jennings County Historical Society, which produces the festival.

The Bartholomew County auditor's office paid out millions of dollars this week, reconciling a state accounting error that underpaid income tax revenue to local taxing bodies.