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It will also serve as an administrative backup location for the Monroe County Control Center, as well as the Monroe County Office of Emergency Management. “Our first responders need state-of-the-art facilities so they can focus on their No. 1 job: protecting northeastern Pennsylvanians during emergencies,” Cartwright, who submitted the Community Project Funding request for the facility, said. “This new facility is a smart investment in Monroe County’s public safety infrastructure, and I...

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana judge has rejected a new trial for a man...

A Delaware County man who nearly three decades ago was hired to kill a Muncie woman has failed in his bid to win a new trial.

Prosecutors this week dismissed charges against a Muncie man accused of trying to take a city police officers gun during a struggle in 2018.

Jun 11, 2021 / 01:51 PM EST MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) — Felony and misdemeanor charges against a Muncie man have been dropped more than three years after his arrest in Delaware County. The following charges against Lorenzo Reyes were dropped on Thursday: disarming a law enforcement officer battery resulting in moderate bodily injury operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person domestic battery Court documents show the reason listed for dismissal is “in the best interest of justice...

View Comments MUNCIE, Ind. — A Delaware County man who was shot by Muncie police after he set his house on fire was sentenced this week to two years on probation. Gary Dale Mort — now 59 and a resident of Eaton — had pleaded guilty to arson, a Level 4 felony carrying up to 12 years in prison. However, a plea agreement placed a two-year limit on the sentence Mort received this week from Delaware Circuit Court 1 Judge Marianne Vorhees. When Muncie police officers and firefighters were cal...

A Delaware County man who was shot by Muncie police after he set his house on fire was sentenced this week to two years on probation.

Attorneys weigh in on hired killers bid for new trial View Comments MUNCIE, Ind. — Attorneys have weighed in as a Delaware County man convicted in a murder-for-hire plot continues his pursuit of a new trial. Jess David Woods, now 69, was convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in 2009. He was later sentenced to 100 years in prison by Delaware Circuit Court 3 Judge Linda Ralu Wolf. Woods — formerly of the Daleville area — was convicted of fatally shooting 29-year-old Teresa Fr...

Top court spurns appeal in Ball State students 1994 killing May 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has rebuffed a central Indiana mans appeal of his life sentence for fatally shooting a Ball State University student in 1994 during an attempted robbery. The court issued an order Monday declining to hear Larry Wayne Newton Jr.s appeal of a Delaware County judges 2016 decision denying his bid for post-conviction relief, The Star Press reported. “The U.S. Su...

View Comments MUNCIE, Ind. — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t consider the latest — and perhaps final — appeal of convicted killer Larry Wayne Newton Jr. The Muncie man was 17 when he fatally shot Christopher Coyle — a 19-year-old Ball State University student from Pendleton — during an attempted robbery in an alley east of the campus in September 1994. A year after the homicide, Newton pleaded guilty to murder, part of a plea agreement that saw prosecutors end their pursuit of a death ...