Portland News

PORTLAND -- Much like the TV show, Mythbusters, The Jay County Breastfeeding Coalition is working to destroy misinformation and misconceptions about nursing as well as educate and support mothers.

HARTFORD CITY - Ricardo Solis, 40, passed away Sunday, July 5, 2009 at the I.U. Medical Center, Indianapolis, after a short battle with leukemia.

Tharp grew up in her native Portland, Indiana, and in Los Angeles; her childhood included comprehensive training in music and dance.

PORTLAND - Robert L. Frazee, Sr., 78, a resident of Portland, passed away on Friday, July 3, 2009 at Jay County Hospital from Post Polio Syndrome complications.

A Portland, Indiana-based company says it has developed a solar power breakthrough that will allow homes and businesses to use the sun more efficiently as an energy source.

PORTLAND - State of the Heart Hospice will sponsor free training for pastors and church volunteers at the Jay County Public Library the evening of July 16.

PORTLAND - As expected, preliminary autopsy results showed two Jay County teenagers died June 23 at a result of drowning.

Theodore F. Harrington, 50, Portland, Ind., passed away Friday evening at his residence.

The owners of two new meat markets say customer tastes have changed, and they're changing with them.

Jesse James, star of 'Jesse James is a Dead Man,' will appear at this year's Jay County Fair in Portland.

The bodies of two teens were found Tuesday in a Jay County pond. The two 18-year-olds were reported missing from a home near Portland.

Authorities say two teenagers apparently drowned while swimming in a rural pond in eastern Indiana.

PORTLAND - Two Jay County teenagers apparently drowned Tuesday night while swimming in a rural pond.

PORTLAND - The American Red Cross will have a blood drive to honor fallen officers of Indiana 12:30-5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Jay Community Center, 115 E. Water St.

I like giving people the benefit of the doubt, and would like to give celebrity fitness trainer Tracy Anderson even more so, since she is from Indiana, the state that I called home for four years when I went to college in Bloomington at Indiana University.

PORTLAND - A Portland woman accused of selling prescription medication has received a Sept.

PORTLAND - A Redkey man has been accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl.

Crestview Golf Club's junior program will begin with Session I Monday through next Friday.

PORTLAND - The sixth annual National Center for Great Lakes Native American Culture Gathering of Great Lakes Nations Pow Wow is set Saturday and Sunday at the Tri-State Antique Gas Engine and Tractor Grounds, 1010 Morton St.

Arts Place is hosting the Arts Place Farmers' Market in Portland from 2 to 5 p.m. every Saturday through Oct.