Columbus Regional Hospital’s Promptmed clinic will be closed for two Wednesdays later this month.
According to the hospital, the clinic will close March 23 and March 30 for remodeling. You can go to Wellconnect in downtown Columbus or the hospital emergency room if you need treatment.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified Michael Mathis as driver of a vehicle in this crash. He was a passenger. We apologize for the error.
A Columbus man died in a three-vehicle Jennings County crash Saturday night.
46-year-old Michael Mathis was pronounced dead at the scene.
Deputies were called to the crash on State Road 3 near County Road 650S at about 9:52 p.m. to find an SUV, car and pickup truck had collided. Witnesses said the car, in which Mathis was a passenger, was headed northbound, crossed the centerline and collided, first with the SUV, then the pickup, according to a report from Lt. Mike Mowery, spokesman for the sheriff’s department.
Several people were taken to St. Vincent Jennings Hospital with injuries and a 3-year-old girl and a passenger in the car were later flown to Indianapolis hospitals, Mowery says. Their names were not released.
The girl was in the back seat of the SUV and is the daughter of the driver, 32-year-old Amanda K. Helton and 38-year-old Robert T. Helton, who was in the front passenger seat. They are from Deputy.
The pickup truck was driven by 69-year-old Patty S. Daugherty, also of Deputy, IN.
State Road 3 was closed for several hours.
A U.S. Army sergeant who has been serving in Afghanistan returned home Friday morning to surprise her daughter at Hope Elementary.
As students lined the hallway waving flags, Keagan a kindergartener, suddenly saw her mother walking down the hallway. She raced down the hallway shouting “Mommy!”
Sgt. Mary Everroad, a Hope native, has been serving at Bagram Air Base as a medical sergeant for about a year. This was her third tour. Earlier in the morning she surprised her younger daughter, Kherington at daycare.
Mary’s father, Hope police officer Rick Everroad, said the planning almost all fell apart Friday morning, when the school called and said that Keagan was not feeling well. But they decided to keep her in school to take part in the surprise.
Hope principal Jessica Poe says they kept the secret quiet until just before the ceremony. She said it had a big impact on the first and second grade students who took part. Some felt like crying after seeing the surprise unfold, she said.
Schneck Medical Center has implemented visitor restrictions, effective Saturday, March 12, to help protect patients, staff, and the community from the spread of influenza.
Stephanie Furlow, the Seymour’s hospital’s director of marketing and public relations, says that no more than three visitors may be admitted to a patient’s room at one time. She adds that visitors must be at least 18-years-old and must be immediate family and significant others as identified by the patient.
Anyone with the following symptoms is asked to refrain from visiting patients:
• Fever and/or chills
• Sore throat
• Muscle aches
• Runny or stuffy nose
• Cough
• Fatigue
• Headache
• Vomiting and/or diarrhea
Furlow adds that all visitors must wash their hands or use alcohol-based hand sanitizer before, and after, visiting a patient. Hospital officials say that hand sanitizer can be found throughout the hospital, as well as outside each patient’s room.
“We’ve seen an increase in the number of people with flu-like symptoms in the last few weeks,” said Anita Reecer, Infection Preventionist at Schneck.
Reecer urged the public to get the flu vaccine as soon as possible in order to protect themselves for the rest of the season.
National Severe Preparedness week for Indiana is March 20-26.
The Bartholomew County Emergency Management Center says that their will be two statewide tests on Tuesday, March 22. The department says that a morning test will take place between 10:15 and 10:30 a.m., while the evening test is scheduled for between 7:35 and 7:45 p.m.
Officials say that during these tests, radio and television stations will take part. He adds that Severe Weather Radios will receive a Tornado Warning test and outdoor warning sirens will be activated.
In the event of poor weather, the tests will take place the following day.
North Vernon Police are investigating the death of a two-year-old child.
A department spokesperson says that at about 4:30 a.m. on Friday, officers were called to 500 Hayden Pike after receiving word that the child, Chance Amburgey, was not breathing. Authorities say the child stopped breathing sometime overnight and never regained consciousness.
North Vernon Police Detective Ivory Sandefur and Jennings County Coroner Gene Rudicel are conducting the investigation. Police say an autopsy took place Friday morning, but toxicology reports won’t be available for some time. Authorities say that there is no indication of foul play.
The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department is asking for your help in locating a wanted suspect.
Sheriff’s Department Spokesperson Judy Jackson says that 29-year-old Santos Marquez is wanted on a felony warrant charging him with two
counts of Child Molesting. Marquez is described as a Hispanic male, five-feet, nine-inches tall and weighing 250 pounds. He also goes by the alias, “Johann Perez.”
If you have any information regarding Santos Marquez, or his whereabouts, you are asked to call the Sheriff’s Office Tip Line at (812) 379-1712. Tips can be left anonymously.
A Noblesville woman was arrested after allegedly giving a Columbus Police Officer a false name.
Columbus Police Department (CPD) Public Relations Officer Justin Black says that at around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, CPD Officer Ben Goodin
responded to a department store in the 700 Block of Creekview Drive for an alleged shoplifting incident.
During the course of the investigation, Black says that the officer determined that the suspect, 34-year-old April Colbert, of Noblesville, had given him a false name.That led to her arrest. During the investigation, Black says that officers learned that Colbert had an active warrant out of Hamilton County.
Colbert was booked in the Bartholomew County Jail on a preliminary charge of False Informing, a Class B Misdemeanor, along with the Hamilton County warrant charging her with two counts of Theft.
A Columbus man was arrested on drug charges and outstanding warrants after a traffic stop on Friday morning.
Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department Spokesperson Judy Jackson says that at approximately 12:05 a.m., Deputy Sgt. Kris Weisner stopped
a vehicle on North Hackberry Drive, just north of Lowell Road, for erratic driving.
Jackson says that the passenger, 22-year-old Marty Joe Sutton, II, of McKinley Avenue, was identified as having three outstanding warrants. As Sutton got out of the vehicle, Sgt. Weisner allegedly saw a glass smoking pipe with white residue next to Sutton’s seat. Authorities say that the residue tested positive for methamphetamine.
Jackson says that Sutton was arrested and booked in the Bartholomew County Jail. In addition to three outstanding warrants, Sutton is facing additional preliminary charges of Possession of Methamphetamine and Possession of Paraphernalia. Jackson adds that Sutton is being held without bond.
With the warmer weather, Columbus trash crews will be starting the compost and chipper program earlier than normal this year.
According to the city’s department of public works, the program will kick off on Monday. You should put your compost toters and brush out by 7 a.m. on the same day as your normal trash toters. You can put grass, leaves, flowers or garden debris in your compost toter and up to one armful of brush can go into your trash toter. But city crews ask that you don’t put anything woody into your compost toter.
When you put the toter to the curb, they also ask that you leave at least two feet between the trash and compost toters.
If you have any questions, or if you need to call in for crews to pick up a large pile of trash, you can call 812-376-2508..