New Castle News

He was born on May 30, 1940 in Lawrence County, IL the son of Elmer and Esther Stevens.

Not long ago, Ivy Tech Community College instructor Tracie Hopson was teaching her respiratory care students in a building the college shared with and leased from Pritchett's Backhoe Service north of town.

NEW CASTLE, Ind. An eastern Indiana man has been sentenced to probation for charges stemming from a bar fight in which a woman was paralyzed and died several months later.

Troy Lee Baker, 42, 2021 N Ave., was formally charged Friday in Henry Circuit Court 2 with battery with a deadly weapon, criminal recklessness and driving while suspended.

He was born February 23, 1929, the fourth of twelve children of Millard Sherman Pierce and Arrow Minnis York Pierce.

A New Castle woman this week was arrested, charged and convicted in connection with a fracas at a local tavern.

Ricky Lee Goff was convicted of six crimes, in three separate cases, in 2012. On Tuesday, Goff , 23, of 323 Park Ave., was charged with five more crimes -- theft, criminal confinement, battery resulting in bodily injury, battery and interference with the reporting of a crime -- in Henry Circuit Court 2. Authorities allege Goff hit a 17-year-old ... (more)

Ivy Tech Community College will scrutinize its leases of space in the downtown Patterson Block and in the John Jay Center in downtown Portland as part of a cost-cutting initiative.

The former associate director of a defunct eastern Indiana economic development group faces sentencing on three felony theft charges after being accused of embezzling more than $150,000. A Henry County judge is scheduled to consider accepting the guilty pleas from 34-year-old Troy Collier of Muncie during a July 25 court hearing.