Kokomo

KOKOMO — Behind his Kokomo home, inside of a large garage, Brad Plantenga paints helmets for athletes and racecar drivers. “People say what do you do? I paint helmets, for race car drivers. They go, oh, that’s cool. What’s your real job? Well, no that’s my real job,” Brad said. It’s been his real job […]

KOKOMO — A masked suspect attempted to rob a Kokomo convenience store at gunpoint early Tuesday and fired one shot at the clerk before fleeing without any cash from the register. It happened shortly before 3 a.m. Tuesday at the Qwik Stop, 804 E. Markland Ave. According to a report from Kokomo police, the clerk, […]

KOKOMO — A doctor from Florida was killed in a plane crash Saturday near Kokomo. Dr. Daniel P. Greenwald, 59, of Tampa, Fla., was identified as the only occupant of the plane, according to a press release from the Howard County Sheriff’s Office. The Howard County Coroner’s Office says the preliminary cause of death is […]

Three Schools On Two-Hour Delay Three schools are on a two-hour delay because of a paperwork mistake that has limited the number of buses on the roads Tuesday morning. The delay is only for students at Emma Donnan Middle School, Emmerich Manual High School and TC Howe High School. School officials say the bus company […]

Storm Deaths Suffered By Our Neighbor The Weather Channel says storms swept through eight states Sunday including here, in Indiana. The death toll in our neighboring state Illinois has now reached six. Disruption there also included an evacuation of Soldier Field and a two-hour delay on a Bears home game against the Ravens. Indiana Battered […]