State police will conduct checkpoint
DELPHI — Indiana State Police will conduct an enforcement checkpoint today targeting impaired drivers in Carroll County.
Drivers who encounter a checkpoint will be delayed for a few minutes and required to produce a valid license and registration. If all information is correct and there is no other reason to be detained, they will be released.
After the checkpoint, troopers will conduct roving saturation patrols, aggressively seeking impaired drivers throughout the district.
McClain pleads not guilty in domestic
At an initial hearing, 38-year-old Jeffery W. McClain pleaded not guilty to accusations of domestic violence.
McClain appeared before Cass Superior I Judge Thomas Perrone Thursday morning to hear the formal charge filed against him. He faces a single count of class D felony domestic battery while in the presence of a child under 16.
McClain turned himself into authorities on Saturday following an Indiana State Police investigation that revealed McClain allegedly battered his wife in their Logansport home on the night of Jan. 24. He bonded out the same day.
Special prosecutor Ron Byal has been appointed to the case. McClain hired attorney Kelly Leeman, who successfully defended McClain last year when he shot his neighbor in the foot following a scuffle. Byal was special prosecutor in that case, as well.
Judge Perrone set court dates. McClain’s next appearance is March 26. A trial is scheduled for May 19.
The order preventing McClain to contact his wife remains in place.
Student held on battery charges
DENVER — A 17 year-old male North Miami High School student is in custody after reportedly using a sharpened tooth brush as a weapon at school.
The Miami County Sheriff’s department was called to the school at 11 a.m. Thursday following a report of a student with a shank.
On Tuesday, a student was reportedly attacked with the weapon by the suspect which resulted in a gash to the arm.
The juvenile was arrested by deputies on charges of battery with a deadly weapon, a class C felony, and possession of a deadly weapon on school property, a class D felony. The suspect was transported to the Miami County Probation Department.
In a detention hearing in the Miami Superior Court II, the juvenile was ordered to be detained at the Kinsey Youth Center in Kokomo.
Local News
Area briefs Feb. 6
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No jail for driver in fatal hit-and-run
A 25-year-old Logansport man admitted Thursday to leaving the scene of a deadly wreck last year, but he will not serve any time in jail as the result of a plea agreement.
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Board backs 51 percent spike in utility rates
For Paul Hartman, the issue facing the Logansport Stormwater Management Board is pretty simple.
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13-foot statue celebrating arts to stand in Logan
Logan’s Landing danced a little closer Thursday to sprucing up the downtown area and crafting the arts and design district it’s been longing to create.
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Stormwater board OKs rate increase
The Logansport Stormwater Management Board this morning approved a 51 percent increase in its monthly rates.
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LHS senior prank
As a senior prank, Logansport High School students moved the cow from in front of Happy Burger West to the Berry Bowl this morning. It was all in good fun, though. Bob Shanks, the owner of Happy Burger, was even on hand to pose for pictures.
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‘It’s not about you’: Local mom shares journey of adopting foster children
Foster parenting isn’t always easy, says Juanita Jackson. Between caseworker visits and baby-sitting restrictions, the 42-year-old balances work and caring for five children as a single mom.
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Longtime Lewis Cass teacher fired over license
Notwithstanding the impassioned pleas on Scott Rouch’s behalf, the Southeastern school board unanimously voted to cancel his teaching contract for “neglect of duty and other just causes.”
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Jeremy Franklin charged with two felonies
A special prosecutor this week filed three charges, including two felony counts, against the son of the Logansport mayor.
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Logan multiplex still in the works
Plans for a multiplex in Logansport are still in the works, but at least one city official hoped the process would move a bit quicker.
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Ambulances moving: Hospital says change will save $200,000
Rural/Metro, Cass County’s newest ambulance service, told Logansport Memorial Hospital that it plans to move out of the ambulance garage at the end of its lease in September.
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