A 22 year old Muncie mother faces charges after her two young children were found wandering alone in a mobile home park. 22 year old Maci Ann Shimer faces neglect charges. The kids were found and police were called to the Burlington Mobile Home Park at just before 9am. Police say one of the children […]

Abbigail Sprong was named 2019 Delaware County Fair Queen at the 2019 Delaware County Fair Queen Pageant. The pageant was held Saturday at Muncie Central High School. Seven young ladies competed for the title of 2019 Delaware County Fair Queen. Abbigail will take part in the Delaware County Fair, and will compete for the Indiana […]

In Anderson, it took jurors less than an hour Friday to find 28 year old Dylan Tate guilty of murder. Authorities say he brutally beat and molested 18 month old Harlan Haines in February of last year and then tried to cover up what happened by crashing his car into a pole with the boy […]

Police say he offered money to a teenaged girl in exchange for sex and now a man is behind bars in Blackford County man. 55 year old Gene Epps of Montpelier was charged with child solicitation and inappropriate communication with a child. The girl involved said no to Epps and informed an adult about what […]

Currently 33% to 50% of all diaper-aged children in Delaware County are in need of diapers, based on research from Delaware County BY5 Early Childhood Initiative, Inc. To help address this need, BY5 has partnered with Toyota of Muncie to host a week-long community diaper drive June 17–21. Diaper banks in Delaware County distributed nearly […]

It’s a year behind bars for a former Delaware County sheriff’s deputy, sentenced for his role in a family member’s drug dealing. 39 year old Jerry Lee Parks had pleaded guilty in March wto aiding, inducing or causing dealing in marijuana, a felony. He was arrested in September of 2017 after agreeing to hold a […]

He was paid to deliver packages but police say a Muncie man stole some instead. 25 year old Dakotah Craig is accused of stealing four laptop computers headed for Ball State along with other items. Craig reportedly signed off on a UPS rundown of what happened which was turned over to authorities. His ex wife […]

Close to two thousand people around Muncie who were without power around noon, are back in service now. Apparently a bird was on a power line and caught fire causing the outage to customers in the Industry and Southside neighborhoods. By 2pm, crews had identified and fixed the problem and the lights were back on.

It will be at least July before Madison County Council votes on a 10-year tax abatement for the proposed Lone Oak solar farm. The issue was tabled this week for the project which had originally been proposed on 850 acres in the northern part of the county. The motion to table it was made so […]