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SCOTT COUNTY, Ind. - Recently, a suspect in a nearly 29-year-old Attempted Murder Cold Case was identified using advanced DNA technology known as fami...

SCOTT CO. - Recently, a suspect in a nearly 29-year-old attempted murder case was identified using advanced DNA technology known as familial DNA.  In May 1995, Investigators from the Indiana State Police and Scott County Sheriff’s Office investigated an attempted murder, assault, and robber ...

Scott County's needle exchange program has been credited with slowing the severe HIV outbreak that rocked the rural county in 2015, and is now seen as the national benchmark for how similar programs should operate. It will stop operating Jan. 1, 2022.

A needle exchange program in southern Indiana credited with slowing down a major HIV outbreak in Scott County will soon come to an end.

View Comments AUSTIN, Ind. — At the height of rural America’s worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak, Jerrica Hall stole and traded sex to feed her unrelenting craving for opioid pills she crushed and injected — an addiction that gripped many in this town of 4,100. In 2015, she walked into an Austin trap house where she used drugs. Inside, a group of friends had their heads down, crying. Everyone had been diagnosed that day with HIV. She’d shared a used needle once, too, and soon caught the quickly spreading virus. With a 3-month-old child and a dearth of local addiction support, hopelessn...