http://www.thecouriertimes.com en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 07:16:18 GMT Daily feed of articles http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281310 Some may say the Indianapolis 500 is a race built on tradition, history and families, like the Andrettis and Unsers. On Sunday, a New Castle family left an Indy 500 mark of its own through photography. News Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281313 HAGERSTOWN - Two men - one of whom reportedly had a semi-automatic handgun - robbed the Hartley Hills Country Club Monday morning, slightly injuring an employee in the process. News Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281316 The new circulation director of The Courier-Times, David Brandt, is a California native who jokingly claims he has two wives. News Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281317 BAGHDAD (AP) - A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years. News Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281315 PHOENIX (AP) - Defense attorneys for Jodi Arias asked the judge to remove them from the case and declare a mistrial Monday, arguing the frenzy surrounding the case has created a modern-day witch hunt. News Mon, 20 May 2013 20:15:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281314 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so. News Mon, 20 May 2013 20:12:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281312 Wind turbines, road funding and an airport runway extension will be on the agenda when Henry County Commissioners meet today. News Mon, 20 May 2013 20:09:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281311 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two autistic children were killed and four other people were injured when they were caught in a fire Monday in the Indianapolis condominium, authorities said. News Mon, 20 May 2013 19:42:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281305 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A musical by John Mellencamp, writer Stephen King and T Bone Burnett will debut in Bloomington this fall before embarking on a tour of 20 U.S. cities. News Mon, 20 May 2013 03:32:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281303 Mayor Greg York made it clear in his visit Thursday to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, that while he appreciates the race car drivers rushing by at 200 mph, marketing New Castle is what gets him most excited. News Mon, 20 May 2013 03:20:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281302 Bruce Aaron decided to start The Guest House for homeless men after a few came to him asking for a place to stay. The homeless shelter resides in the former seventh-grade building on Walnut Street. The school was donated to the The House Church about a year ago. News Mon, 20 May 2013 03:09:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281301 Henry County's preliminary unemployment rate for April dropped out of the double-digit category and almost fell out of the state's top third. Indiana Workforce Development statistics showed the local rate at 9.3 percent, an improvement over both last month and last year. News Mon, 20 May 2013 03:04:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281294 Courier-Times Customer Appreciation Day will be Wednesday. Residents can save on all new subscriptions, or add weeks, or years to their current home delivery subscriptions. News Sat, 18 May 2013 11:43:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281293 Almost 200 years ago, West Virginia's rugged and ragged landscape frustrated a man named Jesse Ice. He wanted a place to farm that was easier to manage, friendlier to his crops and a better place to raise a family. News Sat, 18 May 2013 11:38:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281292 Mark Newman can't forget his delight in tasting the custom-made, key-lime-pie ice cream. Newman, director of the Indiana Office of Tourism Development, visited a Hoosier ice cream parlor and he asked if the employee could make him ice cream in that unique flavor. Before his eyes, and without pause, she gathered the flavoring, cream, graham-cracker crust and churned it into ice cream. It was delicious. And personal. News Sat, 18 May 2013 11:36:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281279 Jan Fischer of Shirley interprets the life of Harrier Beecher Stowe for a Tri Elementary School American history class Thursday. News Fri, 17 May 2013 07:28:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281278 A Rush County man has been arrested on multiple felony charges stemming from a suspicious 2009 barn fire in Fayette County. State troopers located a machine gun and bomb constructing materials inside his home, 2597 S. Road 800E in Rush County, when they served a search warrant Thursday, May 9. News Fri, 17 May 2013 07:26:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281277 Food was ruled condemned from a "Just in Service" delivery truck for a second time in a month on Wednesday. The box truck was stopped on Ind. 1 south of Interstate 70 in Cambridge City for a truck inspection around 1:15 p.m. by Trooper Jeremy Woods of the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division. News Fri, 17 May 2013 07:24:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281276 A big year for Tri senior Rachel Wenning just turned "magical." Already a National Merit Scholarship finalist and Tri's presumed 2013 valedictorian, Wenning added yet more sparkle to her resume by winning a national title at the recent Business Professionals of America convention in the shadow of princesses and magic kingdoms in Orlando, Fla. News Fri, 17 May 2013 07:21:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281271 COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) - A once-fearsome cyclone that was threatening Bangladesh and Myanmar dissipated quickly, causing some deaths but largely relieving authorities who had told more than 1 million people to leave vulnerable coastal areas in preparation for a far worse storm. News Fri, 17 May 2013 03:49:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281270 GRANBURY, Texas (AP) - Habitat for Humanity spent years in a North Texas subdivision, helping build many of the 110 homes in the low-income area. But its work was largely undone during an outbreak of 13 tornadoes Wednesday night that killed six people and injured dozens. News Fri, 17 May 2013 03:46:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281269 DETROIT (AP) - A visibly frustrated Detroit Mayor Dave Bing announced Tuesday that he won't seek a second term and ripped Michigan officials for not giving him enough time to solve the financially strapped city's problems on his own. News Fri, 17 May 2013 03:44:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281268 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A school bus carrying severely disabled students home from a trip to the zoo rolled over Thursday on a highway near Indianapolis, injuring a dozen people, including five children, state police said. News Fri, 17 May 2013 03:41:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281250 The New Castle-Henry County Public Library has added a seed library to its many services. News Thu, 16 May 2013 03:00:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281249 SULPHUR SPRINGS - The Sulphur Springs Town Council voted 2-1 Tuesday night in favor of keeping their police department and Town Marshal Danny Floyd. News Thu, 16 May 2013 02:59:00 GMT