Police say a Muncie man is in jail for stabbing a female visitor to his home on East Willard Street. He’s 58-year-old Erma Willis Davenport, charged after the woman told police she woke up in his apartment with the man trying to remove her clothing and was stabbed when she resisted him. He’s in jail […]

Muncie Sanitary District customers will likely see their bills go up with a rate hike that the officials will vote on soon. Residents who want to weigh in on the proposed price hike can attend a public meeting this Thursday at Muncie City Hall at 10:30 a.m. The planned increase is up to $5 a […]

A Muncie woman is suing Fisher Meats after she fell in their store following a snowstorm hit the area last February and she slipped in a puddle inside the front door. Cheryl Toomey says she was permanently and severely injured, lost wages and wants unspecified damages for what she calls “carelessness, recklessness and negligence.”

A corrections officer at the Madison County Correction Complex in downtown Anderson has been charged with rape. 20-year-old Chase Arbuckle was arrested on Wednesday for an alleged attack of a 17-year-girl in a Jeep outside the girl’s home. He’s facing criminal confinement, sexual battery, felony battery and rape chages, and has bonded out of jail.

Four former Anderson city employees who were fired for political reasons are not entitled to get their jobs back. A federal judge said to do so would force four “wholly innocent” employees to be fired. The four were among 11 people who won a lawsuit against the city and the former republican mayor Kevin Smith […]

It’s July first, and the Star Press has a list of the new laws going into effect this month. Alcohol sales are changing. Local distilleries, breweries and wineries can now sell alcohol on Sundays, and farm wineries can fill growlers. Carry-outs are still prohibited. Pharmacy customers who have prescriptions on file can buy pseudoephedrine without […]

Police arrested a Muncie man for a fight on Wednesday that ended with his neighbor’s ear bit off then swallowed. Donald Wilson the second said he was worked up during the fight, and is being held on a $10,000 bond. The unnamed neighbor was taken to IU Health Ball Memorial for treatment of his wound. […]

The Muncie man who called 911 to report his girlfriend shot his mother Thursday morning has been charged with firing the shotgun. The Sheriff’s department says 42-year-old Richard Franks took meth in the hours before 73-year-old Bonnie Lou Franks was killed in her home on the southside of Muncie about 4:30 a.m. Thursday. Detectives say […]

In New Castle, a Muncie man is facing molestation charges for allegedly abusing a child under 13. 58-year-old William Culler was arrested by Henry County and facing 8 charges that if convicted could put him in prison for decades. He’s in jail with a high bond and is scheduled to go to trial in October.