Authorities with the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission served search warrants at various restaurants in southeastern Indiana Thursday, including one in Decatur County.

“The Greensburg Daily News” is reporting that El Reparo in Greensburg, along with MezCal and El Reparo in Rushville and El Reparo in Liberty were the subject of the warrants. The paper says that the search warrants were issued following a more than two-year investigation undertaken by the Indiana Department of Revenue and the Indiana Attorney General’s Office.

No arrests have been made and all four restaurants were closed.

For more on this story, visit greensburgdailynews.com.

Some drivers in Jackson County got a smelly surprise on Wednesday.

Sgt. Stephen Wheeles, spokesman for the Indiana State Post in Versailles, says that troopers responded to US 50 near Brownstown after a dump truck with an unsecured gate dumped processed human waste on a three-quarter mile stretch of the road. He says that traffic through the area was briefly slowed as the company cleaned up the mess.

Wheeles went on to say that the waste product was deemed environmentally safe.

A 16-year-old local boy accused of making school threats against Columbus East High School will continue to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet until his next court hearing.

Our news-gathering partners at “The Republic” are reporting that the teen appeared before Bartholomew Juvenile Court Magistrate Heather Mollo on Wednesday for a status hearing on whether electronic monitoring would continue. This after the family requested the boy be moved to home monitoring. The paper says that Mollo ruled to continue the electronic monitoring after consulting with the Bartholomew County prosecutor’s office and juvenile probation.

The former student is accused of posting threatening messages during an incident when students vacated the building after a fire alarm was triggered.

For more on this story, visit therepublic.com.

Local governments in Jackson County are among many in Indiana to receive a share of about $21.6 million in local income tax money the state collected but never distributed.

“The Seymour Tribune” is reporting that the Jackson County Auditor’s Office received just over 192-thousand dollars from the state last week in special local income tax money and distributed it to the county’s 33 taxing units.

State officials with the Indiana Department of Revenue and State Board of Accounts reported two problems that date back to the late 1990s were at the root of the need for the one-time payment. State officials recently discovered the problem while updating computer systems.

For more on this story, go to tribtown.com.

Columbus Police arrested a local man after he allegedly attempted to steal auto parts from inside a fenced area early Thursday morning.

Lt. Matt Harris, spokesman for the department, says that at approximately 12:20 a.m. officers responded to business in the 3000 block of North National Road after an employee observed a suspect hiding inside a fenced-in area on the property. When officers arrived, they reported seeing 39-year-old Jesse R. Bridges, of Columbus, climbing over a large chain link fence. Bridges was quickly apprehended.

Harris says that officers checked the secure fenced area and found several items that were removed from the vehicles and appeared to be staged on the ground outside of the cars. While searching Bridges, police allegedly found several tools and a two-way radio.

Bridges was arrested on preliminary charges of Attempted Theft and Trespassing.

Shared bike paths in Seymour will be painted next week. Mayor Craig Luedeman’s office says that the city’s department of public works and recreation department will be working together, starting Monday, to paint the paths.

City officials say that flyers will be placed at the homes of residents who will need to remove their vehicles during the project. This includes homes on:

Third Street, from Blish to Kessler;
Fifth Street, from Kessler to Blish;
Kasting, from Laurel Street to Wendemere;
Wendemere to Poplar Street;
Poplar Street from Wendemere to Laurel

Mayor Luedeman’s office notes that this work is dependent on the weather and could be rescheduled.

Rose Acre Farms was victorious in a recent lawsuit. The agriculture website, agdaily.com is reporting that the egg producer faced an action brought by a class of direct purchasers alleging that it conspired with others to reduce the supply of eggs in the country. Last week a jury returned a complete defense verdict in Rose Acre’s favor.

According to the report, Rose Acre is one of three egg producers who received the favorable verdict in a case that began in 2008. Plaintiffs alleged that some egg producers committed antitrust violations by engaging in a conspiracy to raise shell egg prices by reducing the supply of eggs through the development and implementation of an animal welfare program designed to give caged egg-laying hens more space. The class was seeking more than $1 billion in damages, which could have resulted in a $3 billion verdict after trebling.

A man wanted on several warrants was arrested after a short standoff with Columbus police Wednesday night.

Columbus police are reporting that 26-year-old Randy H. Wilson was seen entering a home in the 1800 block of Cherry Street at about 7:35 last night. Police surrounded the home and ordered Wilson to surrender, but he initially refused. After about half an hour he came out of the home and was arrested.

He was wanted on outstanding Bartholomew County warrants including failing to appear in court, robbery with bodily injury, criminal mischief and battery.

Today is the longest day of the year and a day when the Alzheimer’s Association would like you to consider their cause. Columbus Mayor Jim Lienhoop has declared June 21st as Alzheimer’s Awareness Day in the city.

Leah Shattuck with the Alzheimer’s Association’s Greater Indiana Chapter says that nine cities across Indiana have made similar declarations today:

She says that more than 110,000 Hoosiers are affected by Alzheimer’s and more than 338,000 residents are acting as caregivers.

She said the disease can seem overwhelming.

Shattuck said that June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month.

Shattuck talks about what you can do to help on this Longest Day campaign.

You can get more information online at ALZ.org.

The Columbus Parks and Recreation Department wants your thoughts on improvements to the Jolie Crider Memorial Skate Park this evening.

A public input meeting will be held, starting at 5:30 p.m. tonight at the Hamilton Community Center and Ice Arena.

The parks department is going to be unveiling design concept plans for the skate park by Janne Saario, a renowned FInnish skate park designer. This will be his first skate park design in the United States. The wooden park was first opened in 1999 and is now in poor repair and won’t last another summer according to the Columbus Park Foundation.

The foundation is raising $385,000 toward renovations at the park, which will include concrete construction that should last for generations.

This month would have been skater Jolie Crider’s 35th birthday. She died in 1998 from meningitis.

For more information you can contact the parks department at (812) 376-2680.