Looking Back – December 9

2008

More than 200 cars crashed, the ColumBUS system briefly shut down and a police officer almost got hit by a sliding salt truck as winter walloped Bartholomew County.

1993

A routine traffic stop of two vehicles on suspicion of drunken driving led to one of the area’s largest drug busts, seizing 23 pounds of marijuana with a street value of about $30,000.

1968

A pre-dawn blaze swept through Carpenter Drug Store at Columbus Center when a lighted electrical Santa Claus display apparently ignited.