Portland News

PORTLAND - Jay County was the only school district in East Central Indiana Monday morning to operate on a two-hour delay because of fog.

PORTLAND - A Portland man was fatally injured late Tuesday when he was ejected from his pickup truck after it left a Jay County road and rolled.

PORTLAND -- A Portland man who admitted to battering a female acquaintance has been sentenced to two years in prison.

PORTLAND - A suspected meth lab was found this week near General Shanks Elementary School.

MUNCIE -- He seems calm now, but B.J. Crumes is steeling himself for the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

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PORTLAND - Indiana State Police arrested a Portland bail bondsman at 9:30 a.m. today on theft and obstruction of justice charges.

PORTLAND - An Albany woman has been accused of selling methamphetamine to a police informant.

PORTLAND - A Lynn man accused of selling prescription medications to police informants has been charged with drug-related crimes.

A Jay County woman who was accused of stealing more than $100,000 -- from a relative who has since died -- has been sentenced to 240 days already spent in the Jay County jail.

Boni Bent-Nelson of South Bend will conduct a fur trade class for children age 6 and older 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday in the Women's Building at the Jay County Fairgrounds.

PORTLAND - Residents, businesses, industries, clubs, and organizations are invited to the first-ever Taste of Jay County 4-6 p.m. Sunday at the John Jay Center for Learning.

PORTLAND - The Museum of the Soldier, 510 E. Arch St., will host a Military Vehicle Show and Living History Encampment 10 a.m.-dark Saturday.

A Portland, Indiana man already jailed in Wells County now faces seventeen additional charges in Allen County.

A Portland teenager has been waived into adult court to face allegations he broke into three Portland-area homes.

PORTLAND - U.S. Rep Mike Pence will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Jay County Republican Fall Banquet, set for Friday, Oct.

PORTLAND - A Dunkirk man faces a felony charge stemming from a May traffic accident that injured two Portland teenagers.

PORTLAND - The Second Harvest Food Bank's tailgate program will offer free food to those in need Wednesday morning at the Jay County Fairgrounds, 806 E. Votaw St.

PORTLAND - The body of a Portland man who drowned while on a hunting trip in Alaska was recovered this week from the Sagavanirtok River.

The publisher of a newspaper in Portland, Indiana, was deported from the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan upon his arrival for a visit to evaluate a university's journalism program.