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In the past decade alone, Mark Yeaton has cycled across the state to raise money for small business loans among the struggling in Ghana, pedaled 3,000 miles cross country to raise funds for clean water for the less fortunate in Kenya, and steered his handlebars up a total of 29,000 feet of Brown County hills to generate donations for United Way of Bartholomew County’s COVID-19 Relief Fund.

The Columbus East Food Pantry will have a community food distribution on Friday, from 4:30-6:30 p.m., for drive-up distribution of pre-bagged collections of food, with enough for approximately 220 families.

INDIANAPOLIS — Reps. Ryan Lauer, R-Columbus, and Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, have voted in favor of a proposal that would severely limit workplace COVID-19 vaccination requirements even as the bill faces resistance from Gov. Eric Holcomb and GOP state senate leaders.

With three weeks before the filing deadline, those seeking public office to represent some or all of Bartholomew County continue to make their candidacies official.

Bartholomew County Sheriff deputies arrested a local woman on Tuesday after a traffic stop at 11:49 p.m. in the area of East County Road 800N and North County Road 100E.

A suspended Columbus police officer has agreed to resign and has accepted the terms of a plea bargain agreement, pleading guilty to Class A misdemeanor battery in a 2020 case involving a handcuffed suspect being hit.

Columbus police officers arrested a local man on a felony methamphetamine dealing warrant at his home early Wednesday morning.

COLUMBUS, Ind. -- A Columbus police officer has agreed to resign and has accepted the terms of a plea bargain agreement, pleading guilty to...

COLUMBUS, Ind. --  Bartholomew County Sheriff deputies arrested a local woman on Tuesday after a traffic stop at 11:49 p.m. in the area of...

COLUMBUS, Ind. -- In the past decade alone, Mark Yeaton has cycled across the state to raise money for small business loans among the...