Miami News

THE ISSUE: The Indiana Chamber of Commerce's Best Buy schools. OUR VIEW: Nine area schools deserve congratulations for providing a quality education while watching the taxpayers' money.

Howard County Arrests Friday, 2:43 p.m., police arrested Mondre Trice, 32, 1300 block of East Walnut Street, at Sycamore and Ohio streets, on a warrant for petition to revoke.

Riverside Travel Trailer Inc., a Peru manufacturer of towable recreational vehicles, announced Wednesday it is expanding its operations and plans to create 100 new jobs by 2011.

Tiger Woods put off an interview with police for a second day on Saturday, deepening the mystery surrounding the late-night, one-car crash that left the global golf icon bloody and dazed.

The tree-killing emerald ash borer has reached Miami and three other Indiana counties, boosting the insect's foothold in the state to 30 counties.

What a difference a year makes. Area highway departments battled a shortage of available supplies of road salt last winter.

Wednesday, Oct. 21 8:45 a.m.: A police-escorted caravan of vehicles pulls out of Kokomo's Hampton Inn parking lot onto U.S. 31.

If You Go What: Taping of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" When: 24/7 until Tuesday Where: 11040S 100W, Miami County The Cowan-Brown family members walked down the driveway of their rural Miami County home.

Miami County in Northern Indiana is abuzz today with the arrival of the host of the TV show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." Anderson-based Hallmark Homes Inc.

One weekend a year for the past eight years, Joe Cross has portrayed the Miami Indian chief who gave the city of Kokomo its name.

Hoping to help with response time and also lower property owners insurance in Miami Township, the New Waverly Fire Department is expanding its services and adding a new location.

Submitted by kpaul.mallasch on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 7:50pm. On Friday and Saturday nights, Indiana state troopers working from the Indiana State Police Peru Post conducted saturation patrols targeting impaired drivers.

On Friday and Saturday night, Indiana state troopers working from the Peru Post conducted saturation patrols targeting impaired drivers.

Offenders at the Miami Correctional Facility are giving something back to the community by helping out the blind and in turn helping themselves.

On August 11, 2009, a month long criminal investigation by Indiana State Police Detective Mike Tarrh and Detective Bob Burgess resulted in the arrest of Brandon Walker, 27, and his wife, Rachel Daily-Walker, 31, both of Peru, IN, to face a total of 11 felony charges.

How would you like to climb inside an F-4 jet cockpit and let your imagination take flight; or see the first plane to shoot itself down; or learn the untold story of a man who personally helped shorten World War II? You can do all three and more by visiting the Grissom Air Museum, north of Kokomo.

How would you like to climb inside an F-4 jet cockpit and let your imagination take flight; or see the first plane to shoot itself down; or learn the untold story of a man who personally helped shorten World War II? You can do all three and more by visiting the Grissom Air Museum, north of Kokomo.

The following information was provided by the Indiana State Police: Peru - " On July 21, a month long criminal investigation by Indiana State Police Detective Mike Tarrh resulted in the arrest of Christopher A. Couture, 32, Peru, IN.

Fifteen years after Dave Moody fought to keep the Chief Kokomo monument in the Pioneer Cemetery on South Purdum Street, he will renew that fight to prevent the monument from being relocated to the Howard County courthouse square.

North central Indiana, particularly Howard, Miami and Tipton counties, have had a pretty tough year.