Muncie News

MUNCIE - A four-man crew from Melrose Pyrotechnics in Laporte County is setting up Muncie's 398-shot fireworks display in the rain this afternoon.

Much has been written about Muncie, known internationally as a "Middletown, USA" since the Robert & Helen Lynd conducted their seminal sociological study that was published in 1928.

The America's Hometown Jazz Band is planning a performance on the terrace of Ball State's Fine Arts building on Thursday, July 16, at 7:30 p.m. The event is open to the public and free of charge.

MUNCIE -- City council members are encouraging people who attend Monday's meeting to bring school supplies for needy children.

MUNCIE -- Indiana Michigan Power is cutting down six giant norway spruce trees in Dicky Marvin's front yard and nine more in his neighbor's front yard.

MUNCIE -- Census estimates released Wednesday showed Muncie with 300 fewer residents in 2008 than a year earlier, continuing a trend that has seen the city's population shrink by more than 2,400 since 2000.

MUNCIE -- A meeting Thursday involving Mayor Sharon McShurley, Muncie City Council President Alison Quirk and a police union official ended without any changes in plans to lay off five rookie Muncie Police Department officers.

Muncie Chiefs Post 19 manager Bobby Graves returned home Wednesday afternoon after a 75-hour stay at Ball Memorial Hospital.

MUNCIE - A Muncie woman was being held without bond in the Delaware County jail Thursday after being accused of abusing her two-year-old son.

MUNCIE -- Ontario Systems, a local software company that laid off 126 employees in December, shed another 35 jobs Wednesday.

MUNCIE -- What police called a 'drive-through' operation for cocaine consumers at Imperial Apartments was shut down Tuesday night after a handful of arrests.

Austin Rich, a laid-off city firefighter, has been appointed to replace Gary Greenlee on the Metropolitan Board of Zoning Appeals.

When John Dillinger and his gang strode out of the Daleville Commercial Bank in 1933, nine-year-old Ruby Davis was playing nearby in the front yard of her home.

That's the only way to score this new state budget, at least when it comes to K-12 education.

A Muncie man faces multiple charges after he allegedy stole a lawn mower, then tried to kick a police dog.

MUNCIE - Police have few leads on an early Monday burglary at Doc's Club, 215 S. Walnut St.

MUNCIE -- The struggling economy has hampered many businesses in Muncie. Its wrath is even affecting America's pastime.

No local unit of government, not city, county, any public library or school system, knows what property tax revenue they'll get in 2009, yet they've been paying their bills for six months.

MUNCIE - The Suzanne Gresham Center, a division of Meridian Services, will provide a free in-service program on "Attention Hyperactivity Disorder " at noon July 8 at the Morrison-Mock Professional Center.

MUNCIE -- Mayor Sharon McShurley has accused firefighters of making a mess before moving out of the recently closed downtown and Mock Avenue stations.