Linton News

Greene County will launch a new program Friday to help local residents deal with the high cost of prescription medications.

Nick Schneider, of the Greene County Daily World reports, Shan Michael Bowers, 24, entered a guilty plea to battery committed by means of a deadly weapon or resulting in serious bodily injury - a class C felony.

Nick Schneider of the Greene County Daily World reports that the latest to catch some "heat" about a planned paving project are District 3 County Commissioner Rick Graves and Greene County Highway Superintendent Brent Murray, who formerly served on the county council.

Greene County General Hospital has been named in a civil suit linked to the 2008 death of a Worthington woman.

A Spencer man, who attempted to evade a pursing Linton police officer by driving more than 90 miles per hour earlier this month, now faces a felony charge of being a habitual traffic violator for the second time.

The Greene County Daily World reports the picnic-style celebration will be from 2-7 p.m. on the hospital lawn.

A sleepy driver apparently ran a stoplight and started a chain of events that led to a five-vehicle pileup on State Road 54 near the entrance to Angell's Shopping Center in Linton on Tuesday afternoon.

A 29-year-old Linton woman with several small children was arrested Monday evening after being intoxicated more than three times the legal limit in the parking lot of a local grocery store.

Mark Stalcup, of the Greene County Daily World reports, However, nearly three hours after police scrambled to the scene of what was initially believed to be a 7:45 p.m. altercation between two neighbors which ended in gunfire, the facts of what happened remained unclear.

Three area men are being sought on arrest warrants in connection with allegedly receiving stolen property from a Lyons residence.

White River Valley School District officials and the Indiana State Police are investigating a Wednesday afternoon incident after a plastic water bottle was apparently thrown from a bus that ended up shattering the windshield of a following truck.