From an Indiana State Police press release Sunday, November 1, detectives from the Indiana State Police-Versailles Post began investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred along U.S. 50 (Tipton Street) near Burkhart Boulevard in Seymour. The initial investigation by ISP investigators indicated at approximately 8:30 p.m., officers with the Seymour Police Department were called to the …
Monthly Archives: November 2020
UC resident David Fields is Out in the Country
Obituary for Sharon Kaye Holmes Stegner
SHARON KAYE HOLMES STEGNER Sharon Kaye Holmes Stegner, 70 of Connersville passed away peacefully Friday evening, October 30, 2020 at Reid Health of Richmond. A life-long resident of Connersville, Sharon was born on March 5, 1950 in Connersville, the daughter of Richard Dale and Marcia June Lewark Holmes and was a 1968 graduate of Connersville …
Obituary for Tony Richard Walker
TONY RICHARD WALKER Tony Richard Walker, of St. Leon, passed away October 30, 2020, at the age of 77. Tony was born on January 16, 1943 in West Harrison, to Richard S. and Selma (nee Grubbs) Walker. On July 11, 1964, he married Beverly Colegate and together they were blessed with two children, Paul and …
Obituary for Robert Merkel
ROBERT MERKEL Robert A. Merkel, age 71 of Hamburg, died Saturday, October 31, 2020, at St. Andrew’s Health Campus. Born May 26, 1949, in Batesville, he is the son of Irene (Nee: Bedel) and Herman Merkel. He worked 22 years for the Canada Dry Bottling Plant and 25 years at New Horizons as a material …
Body found in White River
Indiana Conservation Officer press release Indiana Conservation Officers assisted with the recovery of an unidentified adult male from the White River Sunday, November 1, in Marion County. At approximately 12:47 p.m., Marion County dispatch received a call regarding a body in the White River near the Indianapolis Zoo. Upon arrival, responders discovered an unidentified male in …
Hunter airlifted after fall from tree stand
From an Indiana Conservation Officer press release Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating a fall from a tree stand that occurred in the evening of Saturday, October 31. At approximately 5:30 p.m., responders were dispatched to the 9000 block of North County Road 125 East in Jennings County for a hunter who fell approximately 14 feet …
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Fayette County adds another COVID-19-related death
By John Estridge from ISDH data Another death in Fayette County was blamed on COVID-19 and Fayette County had an additional 18 positive tests, bringing its total to 925. The death increases the total in that county to 23. While Fayette County went beneath the at-least-20-per-day run it has been having, the county has reported …
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