Monticello News

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.

A teenager is dead after a serious crash on State Road 18 in White County. The accident happened just after 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at State Road 18 and Springboro Road.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Crabb will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary June 19.

Dispatchers in one central Indiana community credit an 8-year-old with saving her great grandmother's life.

After flood waters destroyed their home and a series of personal setbacks, a Monticello family is fighting back.

A former bookkeeper has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $25,000 from the Monticello-Union Township Library.

Wednesday 6:38 a.m. - Criminal mischief. Someone reportedly slashed a pool in the 900 block of Race Street.

People passing through Monticello may have noticed some unique aircrafts when looking to the skies.

Last week's "Caption This" brought in lots of "Star Trek"-isms. The winner is Paul Walorski of Columbus, IN for "We will boldly go where no deficits have gone before." Runners up are: Don Jordan , Monticello, IN - "OK, take her down to 1,000 feet and put me right over New York City!" Gary Covey , Indianapolis - "SOCIALISM . . . The final frontier!" ...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WHITE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * AT 857 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.

Those looking for jobs may be able to find a new opportunity come August. Congressman Steve Buyer has announced his 10th Hoosier Job Fair, this one to be held in Monticello at Twin Lakes High School.

Filmmaker/musician Randy DeFord of Oak Road MultiMedia has been in the studio scoring the latest independent film from 25 North Filmwurks, Goss Acres .

Storms and flooding in March prompted a presidential disaster declaration for 13 northern Indiana counties.

MONTICELLO, Ind. - Indiana Conservation officers are investigating the death of an 84-year-old man whose body was found in Lake Freeman.

The Cass County prosecutor has decided not to file criminal charges from a traffic crash last September that killed four special needs elementary school students who were on a school bus.

It has been nearly four months since Judith Claypool was found murdered in her Monticello home.

Elkader, Ia. - An Indiana man who netted more than 70 trout from the Big Springs Hatchery near Elkader pleaded guilty Friday to a variety of charges.

An Indiana man has pleaded guilty to taking more than 70 trout from a fish hatchery in Iowa.

An unusual 9-1-1 call over the weekend led to the arrest of two people on drug charges.

Your summer get-away may be closer than you think. Last week we shared some ways you could save if you are traveling out of state.