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INDIANAPOLIS — Three top GOP candidates for Indiana governor far out-raised their fellow hopefuls in semi-annual campaign finance reports released Monday, with U.S. Sen. Mike Braun recording the largest haul.

A Seymour resident is the new executive director of Su Casa, an organization with a mission to increase self-sufficiency, health, economic independence and education for local Latino families, and to ensure they feel safe and welcome here.

The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department has extended its contract with surveillance cameras which read license plates on county roadways.

The Bartholomew County Public Library is requesting the county’s approval to appropriate funds for an unexpected expense — updating its elevator, which is more than 50 years old and broke down earlier this year.

A suspected drug dealer from Miami County with a lengthy and violent criminal record wants to serve as his own attorney in Bartholomew Circuit Court.

By his own admission, Columbus resident Terry Milligan was “always taking stuff apart” as a kid and trying to figure out how things worked.

After nearly two decades of providing “a little yellow” gift to every third-grader in the county, organizers have announced they are closing the books on the annual “Dictionary Project.”

NORTH VERNON — Longtime North Vernon clerk/treasurer Shawn Gerkin is set to become the city’s next mayor. Gerkin is the only filed mayoral candidate for the Nov. 7 municipal election in the city of 6,500 people, though several city council seats and the clerk/treasurer position will be contested.

Columbus Regional Health officials say they are prepared to comply with Indiana’s near-total abortion ban but expressed concern about some potential unintended consequences of the new rules, which are set to take effect in a little over two weeks.

Next month, it will be exactly 30 years since Columbus residents were given a unique peek into their future, centered on an iconic bridge over State Road 46 at I-65.