Johnson County News

A slingshot-like launcher hurls a small plane toward the bright blue sky, and the pilot - who's hunched over a flickering screen in the back of a truck - guides it over Camp Atterbury as though he were playing a video game.

At a history-themed camp, youngsters can learn to play a dulcimer or make a bonnet.

A rising jail population is causing concern in Johnson County as the summer months, when arrests tend to spike, kick into gear.

A woman is facing felony drug charges after an officer pulled over a vehicle for speeding in Miami County and found four different drugs in the car.

Grass in the median of U.S. 31 median through most of Johnson County has not been cut, making visibility difficult when crossing the highway.

The Johnson County Sheriff's office is asking the public to be on the lookout for Gerald Barger, 40, of Johnson County.

An Indianapolis man died after being hit by a sport utility vehicle while trying to cross Interstate 65 near Whiteland.

Officials of a suburban Indianapolis city have filed a foreclosure lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company that failed to open after receiving $8.4 million from the city.

A person walking on I-65 near Whiteland was struck and killed late Wednesday in Johnson County.

One person was critically injured after crash this morning that shut down I-65 in Johnson County for about an hour.

Single-family building permits rose 23 percent in the nine-county Indianapolis area in May, the 11th straight month of year-over-year increases, the Builders Association of Greater Indianapolis announced Tuesday.

With the hope of raising money for supplies and programs, the county parks department recently tried a new method to boost its budget.

Franklin has installed large storm water collection boxes along Madison Street and Main Street to try to reduce and prevent flooding in the area.

Charges have been dropped against a man police said robbed a New Whiteland gas station at gunpoint because the prosecutor doesn't believe there is enough evidence to prove he committed the crime.

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The YMCA of Greater Indianapolis is interested in building a new gym and indoor pool in Greenwood, now that a market study has found there would be enough interest to support it.

Lloyd Smith, 58, has been missing since Sunday, May 26, as he was last seen riding his blue Huffy bicycle around 10 a.m. on Sunday morning.

A roundabout is planned at the intersection of Graham and Whiteland roads to help ease rush hour congestion.

Police are searching for a missing 58-year-old Whiteland man with a mental handicap who has not been seen since Sunday.

Roundabouts have been gaining in popularity in central Indiana because of how they move cars through intersections more quickly and prevent nasty T-bone wrecks.