Articles by Tom Snape

VERSAILLES, IN — Detective/Trooper Peter Tressler, a 32 year veteran of the Indiana State Police Versailles Post, worked his final shift and went off duty for the final time on Thursday. Trooper Tressler graduated from […]

BATESVILLE, IN — The Gibson Theater in downtown Batesville will celebrate its 100th anniversary this weekend. The first-run motion picture “Mayberry Man,” which is about “The Andy Griffith Show,” will be shown at 7:00 Friday […]

UNDATED — The term “snail mail” is taking on even more of a meaning. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) plans to slow down some of its mail delivery, starting today (Friday). The USPS said earlier […]

STATEWIDE — Conservation Officers are encouraging Indiana hunters to donate harvested deer to help feed hungry Hoosiers. The Sportsmen’s Benevolence Fund administered by the DNR Division of Law Enforcement provides grants to Hoosiers Feeding the […]

JENNINGS COUNTY, IN — Indiana State Police and the Jennings County Sheriff’s Office began a death investigation Thursday after a body was found along State Road 3 in northern Jennings County. At around 12 pm […]

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Governor Eric Holcomb has renewed Indiana’s public health state of emergency declaration through October 31. It’s the 19th time the order has been renewed since the start of the pandemic. The order, […]

RIPLEY COUNTY, IN — An elderly Versailles man is dead following a one-vehicle accident that happened on State Road 129 near County Road 200 North just after 11:30 Wednesday morning. The Ripley County Sheriff’s Office […]

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Indiana Department of Health officials have announced that more than 35,000 third doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to Hoosiers age 18 and older since August when the CDC and […]

VERSAILLES, IN — An Osgood man has received the maximum sentence after pleading guilty to reckless homicide. Thirty-nine-year-old Dustin Race was sentenced to six years in prison for causing the death of his girlfriend, 24-year-old […]

BATESVILLE, IN — Margaret Mary Health (MMH) has provided the community with an update on the area’s COVID -19 situation. Although the Ripley County and Franklin County statuses remain unchanged this week, the area did see […]

VERSAILLES, IN — Forty-seven years with four suspended to probation is the sentence in Ripley Circuit Court for 43-year-old Richard Conley, who was convicted in July of Dealing 10 or more grams of Methamphetamine. Judge […]

GREENSBURG, IN — Decatur County Memorial Hospital has put visitor restrictions back in place as a result of the recent spike in COVID-19 cases brought on by the Delta variant. Only one visitor per patient […]