Oolitic News

An East Oolitic home was destroyed by fire earlier this morning. According to fire officials, Shawswick and Oolitic volunteer fire departments received the call to a two-story dwelling at 54 Mason Street at around 1:15AM this morning.

Indiana students will soon find it safer to walk or bike to 51 schools thanks to $3.35 million in federal awards the Indiana Department of Transportation announced on Thursday, December 3, 2009.

Two teenagers were arrested for dealing drugs near an Oolitic school on Saturday.

Next summer, rest and relaxation will not be on the agenda for Brittany Simmerman, a 21-year-old St.

One woman was airlifted to a hospital after her motorcycle ran into a deer Sunday evening.

What started out to be an ordinary traffic stop in Oolitic resulted in one being charged with 3 class D felonies.

Trick-or-treating hours in Bedford, Mitchell, Oolitic, Orleans and Paoli will from 6:00PM to 9:00PM on Saturday .

In the early hours of Friday morning, Indiana State Police Trooper Michael Robbins joined Officer Bill Allen of the Oolitic Police Department in attempting to locate a man wanted on warrant for arrest.

Leah Gross has been pretty lucky lately. Today she'll find out if her streak is still alive.

An Oolitic resident woke up early this morning to find two unknown men snooping through his garage and attempting to steal his 4-wheeler. The man reportedly chased the two out of his garage in which the intruders then sped off in a newer black Jeep with tinted windows.

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At 7:27 yesterday evening police officials received a call of a possible drowning taking place in an Oolitic quarry.

Divers have found the body of a man who jumped 80 feet off a ledge into a southern Indiana quarry.

A Bloomington man's body was found Thursday night after divers were called to a Lawrence County quarry to look for a swimmer who didn't resurface.

RICH DAVIS / Courier & Press Ninety-four pieces of Indiana limestone, including a curving wall and pillars, are part of the $300,000 Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Plaza that will be dedicated by state officials on Friday morning at Lincoln State Park in Lincoln City, Ind.