Local & State News

On Sunday, May 10th about 10:45 the Starke County Sheriff’s Department received information of a male subject with a rifle in the woods.  The caller also said there was a strong chemical order emitting from the area. Officers located a ... Read more...

Bremen Police Chief Matt Hassel released this department’s activity report for the week of May 1st through the 7th. Bremen officers issued a total of 63 traffic warnings and 23 traffic citations.  They also investigated a minor personal ... Read more...

While many important issues were debated during the 2015 legislative session, the state’s biennial budget was a primary focus the past four months at the Statehouse. The enacted budget is balanced and focused on funding Indiana’s most ... Read more...

On Tuesday, May 5th the Starke County Sheriff’s Department responded to the 3,000 block of 200 S for a complaint of a meth lab in a basement. When officers from the Sheriff’s Department and Knox Police Department arrived they located ... Read more...

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly helped the Senate pass the bipartisan Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act, legislation that he cosponsored, which would extend through 2020 a program that helps ... Read more...

On Fridays, Ms. Casi Painton’s 4th grade class at Triton Elementary School has been teaming up with Ms. Sarah Blake’s kindergarten class to read to each other. Each fourth grader will read a book to a kindergartener and the ... Read more...

After nearly an hour of presentations and discussion on Monday, the Marshall County Council failed to get a motion to take any action on the implementation of a wheel tax and LOHUT tax for the county. Council members received letters of ... Read more...

On Monday, May 4th Plymouth Police Officer Derek Workman arrested 19 year old Dakota Wayne Elder of Know on a warrant through Marshall County.  He was lodged in the Marshall County Jail. On Tuesday morning, May 5th Officer Workman served ... Read more...

Members of the Marshall County Council will consider suggested description changes for several positions in Court Services, the Extension Office and Soil and Water. Soil and Water will seek an additional appropriation and Karen Richey will ... Read more...

The City of Plymouth will conduct their regular meetings Monday night beginning at 6 p.m. with the Board of Public Works and Safety followed by the Common Council meeting. Agenda for the Board of Public Works includes awarding the bid for ... Read more...

The preliminary 2015 results of the statewide reading assessment given to 3rd grade students each spring were released on May 8. The iREAD-3 (Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination) testing is administered to determine if students ... Read more...

Plymouth Mayor Mark Senter stopped by Menominee Elementary School Friday to talk with 3rd grade students about the three branches of the United States Government; they are the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches.   Menominee ... Read more...

On April 28, the Operation Round Up board of directors announced three grants, totaling $9,500, was awarded to the Indiana Troopers Youth Service, Encore Performing Arts and Care and Share of Marshall County. The Indiana Troopers Youth ... Read more...

Ancilla College graduated its 48th class in school history on Saturday, May 9, at the Ancilla Domini Chapel. The College awarded 65 students their degrees. “This is an excellent graduating class,” said Ancilla College President Dr. Ken ... Read more...

In honor of National Teacher Week the Plymouth High School / Weidner School Of Inquiry Administrative Team inclusive of Principal Jim Condon, Assistant Principal Kyle Coffman, Dean of Students Ken Olson, Director of Guidance Aimee Portteus ... Read more...

Triton is celebrating reading!   This year on the IREAD3 reading exam, Triton Elementary School had a 98.5 % passing rate.   Only one student didn’t pass. Reading is a basic skill and it’s a priority at Triton! Pictured are ... Read more...

Three Plymouth High School students, Garrett Garver (10), Kathryn Hickman (12) and Curtis Smith (11) have been competing at nationals this week at the BPA – Business Professionals of America Annual National Leadership Conference ... Read more...

With demands from four-year and two-year colleges, trade schools, and industries to have applicants prepared with the needed skills to hit the road running, the buzzwords for Indiana high schools continues to be “college and career ... Read more...

Marshall County is proud to announce the launch of the Northern Indiana Pizza Wars! The eight best Pizza Restaurants in the county will go head to head in a bracket style voting contest to decide who has the best Pizza in our county. The ... Read more...

Thursday afternoon Fabian Roman Rubio, the 20 year old charged with the murder of 15 year old Desi Jones of Bremen appeared in Marshall Superior Court I before Judge Robert Bowen for his initial hearing. Shackled and sitting along at the ... Read more...