Fayette County News

State and local officials continue to cooperate in the effort to have a police car manufacturer start production in Fayette County.

LIBERTY, Ind. -- The Union County commissioners agreed Monday to hire the Indianapolis engineering firm DLZ to prepare a feasibility study on a possible jail construction project.

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. --A combined effort among law-enforcement agencies resulted in the drug-related arrests of 18 people in Connersville.

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. -- A combined effort among law-enforcement agencies resulted in the drug-related arrests of 18 people in Connersville on Thursday.

The local 2-1-1 call center serving east central Indiana, a free telephone service that connects people to human service agencies, has been operating for a year.

The Henry County prosecutor has ruled that police were justified in shooting a Connersville man after a vehicle chase last month.

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. -- Joanne Combs, 55, Connersville, died Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009.

Smaller counties might be making more headway than large ones in immunizing residents against H1N1 flu, but health officials say the difference might be in data, not doses.

Carbon Motors Corporation's E7 is expected to hit the streets in 2012. Carbon Motors Corporation Forget black and white - the new police car in development by Carbon Motors Corporation has green written all over it.

CONNERSVILLE A Connersville man died after he exchanged gunfire with police officers following a pursuit, police said Saturday.

A 33-year-old Connersville man is dead after a relatively low-speed police pursuit through two eastern Indiana counties.

Police shot and killed a man in southeastern Henry County late Friday after he led authorities on a 30-minute vehicle chase, then left his car and opened fire on authorities with a handgun.

A suspect is dead after a pursuit and shooting involving state and local police.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Hoosiers who are eligible for the extension of unemployment benefits approved last week by Congress could see those benefits as soon as the week of Nov.

The Indiana Department of Transportation has begun replacing guard rail along Ind.

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. -- A Fayette County grand jury this week did not indict the former mayor of Connersville nor the city's street superintendent, who were accused by the Indiana State Board of Accounts of misusing city property.

Connersville Mayor Leonard Urban says the city soon will clear legal and environmental hurdles that stand in the way of Carbon Motors' launching its operations there.

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. - Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita will visit Fayette County on Tuesday.. He will deliver the keynote address at the Connersville Chamber of Commerce luncheon on "Rethinking Redistricting," his proposal to redraw political districts following the 2010 census.

Volunteers play a vital role in our county. They frequently are the first to respond to the scene of a fire, accident or other emergency situation.

RICHMOND, Ind. -- Pauline Smith, age 81, of Richmond, died Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, at Reid Hospital.