Muncie News

MUNCIE, Ind. An economist at Ball State University believes national employment figures for May which were released Friday are a clear indicator the U.S. is either in or at the start of another economic downturn.

He was born on July 20, 1934 in Randolph County, IN, the son of the late Clarence Eugene and Daisy Myrtle Fouse.

Plenty of Delaware County manufacturers could benefit from a trade mission by Muncie and Indiana to the Far East next week.

Charles "Chuck" Moisan, 53, passed away early Sunday morning, May 27, 2012, at the Indiana University Ball Memorial Hospital after a short battle with cancer, surrounded by family.

In May 1988, Professor James McGill Buchanan, the 1986 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, told the graduating class at Ball State University that he 'had never been attracted to the romantic nonsense that government or politicians know what is best.

A battery recycling plant in a Dallas suburb will close by the end of the year after reaching a $45 million deal designed to end years of disputes over lead emissions and ground contamination, officials said Thursday.

The prospect of being bitten by a K-9 helped Indiana law enforcement officers capture two escapees from a privately run outdoor recreation facility and return them to the New Castle Correctional Facility in northeast Indiana.

It is always interesting to read Charles C. Haynes writings on the First Amendment.

Federal legislation that criminalizes synthetic marijuana and some bath salts passed the United States Senate today and is on its way to the House of Representatives.

Adam Alexander, a senior at Yorktown High School, is the 2012 recipient of the Carolyn A. Lucas Scholarship, the Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County announced recently.

For large groups, contact Molly Day at muncie@ironmanvolunteers.com or phone 730-4630. MUNCIE -- No need to spend the first Saturday of July sitting on the couch complaining about the closed streets near Prairie Creek Reservoir.

Jeremy S. Chissel, 32, New Castle, died after a yellow, 2003 Ford Mustang crashed nearly head on into a tree along Ind.

City police say a Muncie woman used a recently stolen handgun in Memorial Day robberies at three local convenience stores and a Parker City liquor store.

A new smoking ban takes effect Friday in Indianapolis, leaving South Bend as the largest among a dwindling number of Indiana cities that still allow restaurant and bar patrons to light up during a meal or a drink.

MUNCIE, Ind. - A central Indiana county says the show will go on this summer with new fair grandstand after it demolished the old one because of safety concerns found during an inspection prompted by the deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse.

A Muncie man with a long criminal record failed to persuade a local judge that his latest brush with the law had left him a changed man.

When you travel and have to leave your dog behind, you can call a kennel, hire a pet... According to a police report, after an officer observed Thornbury's car cross the center line at 11th Street and Hoyt Avenue about 12:15 a.m. Tuesday, he tried to pull the vehicle over, only to see its driver increase its speed until finally stopping at Birch ... (more)

On Monday, millions of Americans remembered their friends, family, and others who gave their lives to protect freedom and life in the United States, Whether it is Decoration Day started by freed slaves after the Civil War in South Carolina, or the later Memorial Day for the veterans of foreign wars, grave sites and other burial grounds came alive ... (more)

A vacant apartment house that served as Muncie's first hospital was the most secure abandoned building in Muncie, a city official says.

Jonathan Steelman , Garret Amburn and Gavin Amburn play on the new splash feature at Tuhey Pool on opening day Saturday.