Peru News

Howard County Arrests Wednesday, 11 a.m., deputies arrested Juan Sanchez, 20, Tipton, at the Miami County jail, on a warrant for failure to appear.

Bruce Edgington is alive today because two Peru men stopped and decided to get involved, according to Miami County Sheriff Deputy Jeff Williams.

PERU, Ind. - The museum at Grissom Air Reserve Base in northern Indiana is losing the last of what had been $75,000 a year in state funding.

Let's invest in our future In response to Deanna Crispen's plea for suggestions on how to improve Cass County, I submit the following.

A 6-year-old girl suffered severe head injuries Wednesday morning when the car she was in crashed into an SUV in Miami County.

LOGANSPORT - David Elmer Holiday, 74, formerly of Fulton County, Indiana, passed away at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday January 19, 2010 at the Chase Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Logansport, Indiana.

When Sandy Chittum lost her beloved pet, Rosie, she decided Miami County needed an animal shelter.

Glancing through a report by the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute can raise some eyebrows for those of us from Cass County.

Howard County arrests Saturday, 5:47 p.m., deputies arrested Carlton Draper, 55, 800 block of Harvest Drive, at that residence, on two warrants for failure to appear.

Alone and thousands of miles from home, the immigrant sheepherder roams some of the West's most desolate and frigid landscapes, tending a flock for as little as $600 a month without a day off on the horizon.

Indiana State Police Detective Tony Frawley has completed his investigation into a police action shooting in which a Peru, IN, man was shot by a Peru police officer responding to a physical domestic violence situation.

On the coldest Saturday morning in Peru, Ind., I'll ever remember, a group of community leaders from Fort Wayne to Lafayette met at the Moose Lodge downtown to hear a speaker.

It rained, the ground turned to mud and it didn't matter a bit. The tigers roared, the elephants trumpeted, and the kids soaked it all up.

If there were a statute of limitations on how long good intentions could be intended, Logansport and Cass County would not have an issue such as the proposed animal shelter.

A Peru, Ind., man was shot and killed by a town police officer who responded to a domestic dispute at the man's home Wednesday night.

Shortly after taking office as the Miami County sheriff in 2003, Ken Roland started the process of replacing the existing Miami County jail in downtown Peru.

A Peru teenager pleaded guilty today to breaking into one Logansport home and trying to burglarize another.

A panel of Afro-Cuban priests are predicting a year of social and political unrest, struggles for power, treachery and coups d'etat, and they say the world will see the death of an inordinate number of political leaders in 2010.

SUNDAY 3:56 p.m. - Property-damage accident, U.S. 24 and U.S. 35. Jay R. Sherby, 23, Highland, was traveling onto U.S. 35 from U.S. 24 and due to fast speeds on dangerous road conditions, he slid into the path of Franklin C. Eisenzopf, 73, Galveston, traveling on U.S. 35.

An Indiana State Police reconstructionist from the Peru Post is trying to recreate Tuesday's fatal crash in Miami County in hopes of figuring out what happened.