Rochester News

Thursday 11:07 a.m. - Arrest. Larry Gene Markley, 49, Macy, was arrested on a charge of failure to appear.

Ex-convicts released from prison often have no support system, even at home, and no idea how to build one.

Components such as manway flanges and top and bottom covers that use composite materials offer advantages on corrosion, chemical and atmospheric resistance.

Curious about what local legislators had to say about adding property-tax caps to the state constitution, a number of area residents gathered in the Caston school cafeteria Thursday.

Darrell E. Wire, 76, Fishers, died Dec. 1, 2009, at his home. Mr. Wire had been an Indianapolis Star delivery person for many years.

Today, a six week long drug investigation by the Indiana State Police, in conjunction with several police agencies, has resulted in the arrest of Daniel R. Nells, 44, of rural Rochester, IN.

An Indiana elementary school principal was placed on leave after police stopped him driving home from a Halloween party drunk and in a dress.

A local elementary school principal is off the job, after police say he was pulled over for drunk driving.

Imagine what it would be like if the vice president of the United States spent the entire day in your city, Secret Service agents in tow and press photographers and reporters nipping at his heels.

Indiana State University President Dan Bradley is encouraging the state Department of Education to suspend proposed changes to teacher licensing rules.

Thanks for help with senior dinner The Grass Creek Lions Club would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all their efforts to make our annual Senior Citizen's Dinner a success.

Local and area activities for Halloween this year include the following locations and hours: A* Trick or treating hours in Logansport will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Weather may be to blame for an accident in Rochester that killed an elderly woman walking to choir practice.

Taking a long road trip? Driving down US 31 in Indiana? Looking for a place with delicious hot and cold coffee beverages? Hungry for a steaming bowl of soup or a Panini straight off the grill? If you answered yes to any of these questions head on over the Jarretty's Place in Jarretty's Place Neighborhood: Rochester, Indiana.

Christine Jones is on a campaign to halt drunken driving after her son's death. Courtesy photo Christine Jones brought pictures of the crash scene, even the ones showing her son's covered body lying in the wreckage.

A man once hooked on meth plans to tell his story to thousands of area students next week as part of Red Ribbon Week, the national anti-illicit drug use campaign.

Police getting ready for a drunken driving checkpoint in Rochester this month had a special guest in attendance.

Is there a better place than the woods for a good fright this time of year? Monsters will be hiding along the Haunted Woods Trail on the grounds of the Fulton County Historical Society, four miles north of Rochester on U.S. 31 and County Road 375 N. It's an ideal area for Halloween frights from 7-10 p.m. Oct.

No doubt, state school chief Tony Bennett has touched some nerves within Indiana's education establishment with his questioning of how Hoosier schools have done business for decades.

A Fulton County couple was arrested Tuesday night following a monthlong marijuana investigation.