Looking Back – August 3

2007

A 22 percent spike in service calls to the Columbus Police Department led to a request by Chief Bill Martin for an additional $110,000 for the department’s overtime budget.

1992

A high-speed chase, which left a trail of vehicles that had been run off Interstate 65 and State Road 11, ended in downtown Seymour with the arrest of a Louisville, Kentucky, woman on multiple felony charges.

1967

Public Service Indiana sued Bartholomew County REMC over the right to provide electric service to annexed areas of Columbus and Hope.