Monticello News

Entrepreneurship is something that runs in Josh and Derek Lane's family. Their grandfather owns a monument business here and their father started his own irrigation and landscaping business when he was 22 years old.

The Logansport Community School Corporation board interviewed five candidates Monday to fill former board member Cyle Dibble's position.

MONTICELLO, Ind. -- A local conservation group wants to improve sport fishing at Lake Freeman, but some fishermen say overfishing and lack of cover may impede their efforts.

Firefighters from at least 10 different departments continued to battle a blaze at a pallet company along the Tippecanoe River into Wednesday morning.

MONTICELLO, Ind. -- Fire investigators have not determined what caused a huge fire that forced evacuation of about 20 families and destroyed a warehouse in Monticello.

MONTICELLO, Ind. - Fire gutted a warehouse in a northern Indiana city and prompted authorities to have residents leave about 20 nearby homes.

A downtown Monticello building goes up in flames. The fire started around 7:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Hall's Mall building in Monticello.

A teen was ejected from a car in an early-morning crash in Monticello Sunday. Indiana State Police said the single-vehicle accident happened just before 2:00 a.m. at East Shafer Drive and Highchew Court on Sunday morning.

Legislators studying Indiana's regional sewer districts heard complaints Tuesday that some of those districts are abusing their powers as they push forward projects to extend sewer lines into rural areas.

The annual Brookston Apple Popcorn Festival helped the community usher in a new season, Autumn.

It was a day of remembrance and a day to honor those who have given their lives while serving the country and those in area communities.

Logansport firefighters remain on the scene of a sawdust fire at Cole Hardwood. Randy Cole, co-owner of the lumber company, said workers around 10 a.m. heard a loud boom caused by pressure forcing the lids off port holes atop a silo partially filled with sawdust.

After putting sunglasses on the talking heads everyone produced a camera for a photo.

Four dogs have been kept in a fenced kennel outside a foreclosed house in Monticello, Ind.

White County government leaders are making tough decisions to cut spending next year.

The National Weather Service says there is a chance of thunderstorms late Monday on a line northwest of Monticello, Ind., to Sturgis, Mich.

In less than two weeks, employers will come to Monticello and offer hundreds of employment opportunities at the 10th Hoosier Job Fair.

Though it is highly unlikely that former governor Matt Blunt will run for statewide office in 2012 as his campaign committee says he will, he still has $410,674.77 in his account, according to his disclosure statement filed this morning with the Missouri Ethics Commission.

He's accused of kidnapping a 19-year-old woman in Mishawaka and driving her 100 miles away, and now he has admitted to the crime.

DATELINE: Lafayette, Indiana - 5 p.m., April 3, 1974. I was regional editor at the Lafayette Journal and Courier and a bunch of us from the newspaper were at a meeting at the publisher's house.