Jasper News

JASPER, IN, December 29, 2009 / Stanford Who's Who / -- Stanford Who's Who welcomes Pastor Raymond Brenner for his extreme dedication in the area of religious and spiritual services.

GREG ECKERLE / Courier Press correspondent The newest Christmas wreath in Jasper is placed on the front of the Veterans' Memorial monument.

I firmly believe that services that become a necessity to preserve life should be rendered at the least possible cost.

SR 45 CLOSED FOR SIX HOURS: State Road 45 in eastern Greene County was closed for over six hours early Thursday while crews worked to upright and tow a semi-truck on its side and clean up leaked diesel fuel and a cargo of lime that was spilled.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama told chief executive officers and presidents from a dozen community banks that they have a vital role in getting more credit to the nation's small businesses and that he'll work to streamline regulations.

Jasper, Ind., attorney Art Nordhoff has made four trips to the scene of the Battle of the bulge and has amassed a 150-volume library about it.

Angela Blum found out she has Arnold-Chiari malformation after a minor accident in 2000.

A train that would ferry tourists between French Lick and Jasper in restored antique passenger cars could be rolling down the tracks by next spring for an envisioned year-round service through scenic southern Indiana.

As a child, Vermillion County Auditor Phyllis Orman recalls four large clocks atop the county courthouse keeping time.

There was a slight pause. Then Eric Roy caught his breath. "I had a little trouble writing the letter," the married father of two confided while holding back tears on Wednesday.

At the very least, Indiana National Guard soldiers exposed to a toxic chemical while on duty in Iraq should be guaranteed lifetime care at Veterans Administration medical facilities, as Indiana Sen.

State Rep. Dennie Oxley I, D-Taswell, has been hospitalized at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper.

The Jasper City Mill will be open for tours and business every week through Christmas on Fridays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST and on Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. EST.

As hundreds of bushels of dried, golden kernels of corn rained down into the auger at Jackson-Jennings Co-op on Monday, you'd be hard-pressed to think farmers have faced a cool, wet fall on top of a cool, wet spring and early summer.

Lobbyists aiming to influence state law gave Northwest Indiana legislators $9,600 worth of Indianapolis Colts football and Indiana Pacers basketball tickets, hotel rooms and dinners between May 2008 and April 2009, records show.

Cool, wet fall weather that's caused mold to appear in some of Indiana's corn crop is now creating problems for livestock farmers.

Laura Woolf / Courier & Press World War II veteran Robert G. Cerling of Evansville shares a story with World War II enthusiast Martin W. Vaught of Jasper.

Two men have been indicted on federal charges of hacking into a Jasper company's computer.

Scott R. Burgess, 45, Jasper, Indiana, and Walter D. Puckett, 39, Williamstown, Kentucky, were indicted today for computer intrusion, announced Timothy M. Morrison, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Indiana State Police.

A Jasper mother was sentenced to 30 years in prison for allegedly beating her 2-year-old son to death.