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Vote now: Who is The Star Press' IU Health Athlete of the Week for May 6-11?
It's time again to vote for The Star Press East Central Indiana high school Athlete of the Week sponsored by IU Health. The reigning Athlete of the Week is Carter Duncan of Monroe Central baseball after he received 25,483 votes (43.13%) last week. This week brings us more nominees for Athlete of the Week for May 6-11. Please submit nominees via email to clindskog@gannett.com so they can be included in next week's poll.
Virginia Black named editor of Lafayette, Muncie and Richmond newspapers
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Virginia Black, the news adviser at the Purdue Exponent and former assistant managing editor at The South Bend Tribune, will lead the news operations as the editor at the Lafayette Journal & Courier, The Star Press in Muncie and The Palladium-Item in Richmond. Black’s roots as a journalist run deep in the Greater Lafayette area. ...
Stauffer leads Cougars to win over Park
Bishop Dwenger grad Callan Stauffer finished 3-for-5 with 4 RBI to lead the University of Saint Francis baseball team to a 9-7 elimination round victory over Park in the Williamsburg bracket of the NAIA Opening Round. Tags. Localnow.
Wayne County home listings asked for the same amount of money in April: See the current median price here
The median home in Wayne County listed for $149,900 in April, flat to the previous month's $149,900, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. Compared to April 2023, the median home list price decreased 11.3% from $168,900. The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in...
Authors of book “Cold Case Muncie" host event at Muncie Public Library
True crime journalists and authors Douglas Walker and Keith Roysdon co-wrote a book titled, “Cold Case Muncie.” At the Carnegie Library May 14, the authors shared comments about their findings as well as a Q&A session with the audience. The event was free to the public and did...
Three Women Recently Appointed to Provost Positions
Dr. Lamothe is a professor of Africana studies who has been with the college since 2004. Over the past two decades, she has held various academic and administrative roles including chair of the Africana studies department and co-chair of the Admission Policy Study Group. As an academic, Dr. Lamothe focuses on literary and cultural representations of Black consciousness formed by migratory and transnational experiences. She has written numerous scholarly publications including Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects (University of North Carolina Press, 2024) and Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
Wayne County man accused of threatening woman with knife
RICHMOND, Ind. — A Wayne County man is accused of threatening to harm a woman with a knife. Nathan W. Ward, 43 — of Greens Fork, northwest of Richmond — is charged in Wayne Superior Court 2 with intimidation, a Level 5 felony carrying up to six years in prison. According to an affidavit,...
'Art in Bloom' returns to BSU museum Saturday, Sunday
MUNCIE, Ind. — A spring tradition continues at the David Owsley Museum of Art on the Ball State University campus with "Art in Bloom," a free public floral exhibition Saturday, May 18, and Sunday, May 19. Extended museum hours are planned 1 to 5 p.m. on both days. In...
Appeals court upholds convictions of men who left victim for dead in Henry County
NEW CASTLE, Ind. — The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld the convictions of two men who abducted a woman in Indianapolis, tried to kill her and then left her for dead along Interstate 70 in Henry County. A Henry Circuit Court 2 jury in March 2023 found Christopher Thomas Williams, now 39, guilty of attempted murder, criminal confinement, intimidation, theft and criminal mischief. ...
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