lawrence county

One man is dead and another is severely injured following a dispute Saturday near Bedford.

Sheriff Greg Day is asking the Indiana State Police to conduct an investigation into the death of Damien Pinnick, 38, after he was found unresponsive in the Lawrence County Security Center in Bedford.

Court documents say one officer leaned on the man's neck, cut off his breathing and began choking him. The other restrained the victim by holding onto his legs.  

Two men and two women are accused of being members of a drug trafficking organization. Police say that the group was responsible for “a large number” of illegal drugs entering Lawrence County.

A former southern Indiana police officer has surrendered to authorities to face criminal charges of official misconduct, strangulation and battery for allegedly beating someone last year.

Lawrence, and Brown counties joined a growing list of counties around Indiana that reached the 'red' advisory level according to the Indiana Department of Health.

Just a few years before the Space Race, the people who would help win it were university students in Indiana with no plans of leaving the Earth.