Lawrence County News

Indiana State Police were informed of a possible shooting in Lawrence County over the weekend.

What started out to be an ordinary traffic stop in Oolitic resulted in one being charged with 3 class D felonies.

In the early hours of Friday morning, Indiana State Police Trooper Michael Robbins joined Officer Bill Allen of the Oolitic Police Department in attempting to locate a man wanted on warrant for arrest.

North Lawrence Community School along with the Lawrence County Health Department are conducting a flu clinic at Bedford North Lawrence High School on October 31st from 10:00AM to 1:00PM. A specific location for the clinic will be provided sometime this week.

A burglary at a golf course led police to a marijuana-growing operation inside a home in southern Indiana.

Since last year at this time, seven people in Lawrence County have died as a result of violence.

Bedford Police received a 9-1-1 call yesterday evening at around 7:23PM, from a caller asking police to send an ambulance for a female that was possibly fatally wounded from a gunshot.

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The city of Mitchell has issued a press release with information regarding the arrest of Issac Terrell and his future position with the city.

A 17-year-old girl was injured in a car crash Friday evening near the Lawrence County Fairgrounds.

The Hoosier Hills Food Bank is offering their free monthly grocery distribution for Lawrence County residents in need.

The Bedford Police Department is warning Lawrence County school officials and area parents of two possible attempts at child abduction outside school walls.

State officials are looking for homeowners in two southern Indiana counties to take part in a statewide groundwater quality survey.

The tiny Illinois community of Billett was rocked and rattled by a house explosion.

An Oolitic resident woke up early this morning to find two unknown men snooping through his garage and attempting to steal his 4-wheeler. The man reportedly chased the two out of his garage in which the intruders then sped off in a newer black Jeep with tinted windows.

The pre-trial for an alleged Bedford murderer took place Wednesday night. 26-year-old Joseph D. Hillenburg met with John Haury, his city appointed attorney, as well as Judge Robbins during a private pre-trial session to talk about the stabbing murder of Hillenburg's cousin, Garries Hillenburg Jr.

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Bedford firefighters will take to the streets tomorrow to raise money to go towards the International Association of Fire Fighters and the Muscular Dystrophy Association which is then distributed to Lawrence County families with neuromuscular disease.

Lawrence County Sheriff's Department is on the look-out for a missing Mitchell resident.

Bedford firefighters will take to the streets tomorrow to raise money to go towards the International Association of Fire Fighters and the Muscular Dystrophy Association which is then distributed to Lawrence County families with neuromuscular disease.