A Seymour grandmother and grandson are dead after a suspected murder/suicide. The Seymour Police Department says that just before 5 p.m. Monday, dispatchers received a 911 call from 68-year-old Wanda Huber. Authorities say that Huber made sure that police had her correct address, noting that a murder had just occurred. There was no further contact during the call.

When police arrived at the home, at 1705 South Walnut, they reported finding Huber’s body. She apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Officers also found an injured teen in the home. He also suffered a gunshot wound to the head. The teen was flown to University Hospital in Louisville, where he passed away late Monday night.

Seymour Police say an autopsy on Huber was carried out Tuesday morning in Seymour. Those results are pending. An autopsy of the boy is pending in Louisville. Authorities say the investigation is ongoing, but they are currently treating it as a murder-suicide.

The Bartholomew County Highway Department is adjusting the timing of a road closing.

Bartholomew County Road 300E between 800 North and 900 North, will be closed to traffic on Wednesday and Thursday. That will be from 7 a.m.  until 5 p.m. both days. The County Highway department says there will be soil borings and testing going on in the area.

The closing had previously been announced for later in the week.

Ivy Tech Community College in Columbus will be hosting a celebration of Indiana Food & Drink later this month.

The event will feature several local food and beverage producers. Bethany Messersmith, the Ivy Tech library director, explains.

The participants will include Nichole and Derek Young from Oh Sweetie Specialty Treats, Rick Bush from Bush’s Market and Mike Spagnuolo from Bear Wallow Distillery.

The guests will take part in a panel discussion about the past, present and future of their businesses and they will also be providing samples of their products for attendees to try.

The event is part of Ivy Tech’s continuing Columbus Past, Present and Future series of events, meant to draw community interest and involvement with the campus on Central Avenue near the airport.

The free community event is sponsored by the University Library of Columbus and Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. It will be January 31st starting at 6:30 at the Columbus Learning Center lecture hall.

It looks to be a windy afternoon.

The National Weather Service in Indianapolis has issued a Wind Advisory for our area. The agency is reporting winds will be strong this afternoon and early evening with sustained winds of 30 mph and gusts of up to 45. Loose objects in your yard or on you porch could be blown about.

The wind advisory is in effect from noon to 8 p.m. tonight.

A Seymour grandmother shot her grandson, then killed herself last night, according to police.

The Seymour Tribune newspaper is reporting that 68-year-old Wanda Huber was pronounced dead at her South Walnut Street home last night. Police told the newspaper that she shot herself after shooting her 16-year-old grandson. The boy was flown to University of Louisville Hospital with critical injuries

Police were called to the 1700 block of South Walnut Street in Seymour shortly after 5 yesterday evening. That is near the Seymour Community School Corporation building.

Police told the newspaper that Huber’s gun was recovered at the scene.

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Three teenagers are facing charges related to a string of arson cases in the area of Paris Crossing and Montgomery Township.

On Friday, the Jennings County Sheriff’s Department and investigators from the Indiana State Fire Marshall’s Office served a search warrant at a home in Montgomery Township. During the course of the investigation, authorities say three suspects were identified as being involved with stealing property, then setting the fires.

Taylor S. Corya and Tristan McDonald, both age 18, are facing preliminary charges of Arson, Burglary and Theft. A 17-year-old boy was also arrested at a different location in Montgomery Township. He was transported to the Bartholomew County Youth Services Center and is also charged with Arson and Burglary.

A Columbus teen is fighting for his life after a Sunday night crash in Bartholomew County. At approximately 6:30 p.m., deputies responded to the two-vehicle crash at the intersection of E CR100 S and S CR650 E. The driver, 19-year-old Philip Artis, was flown to IU Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Artis’s condition is unknown at this time. The driver of the second vehicle, 33-year-old Aaron Klene, of North Vernon, was not hurt.

A witness told deputies that Artis was driving southbound on 650 E when he failed to stop at the intersection of 650 E and 100 S. The witness also reported that Klene tried to avoid the collision, but was unable to do so.

Four Bartholomew County librarians have been selected to attend a public innovators lab in Indianapolis this spring.

The Harwood Public Innovators Lab is meant to help libraries turn their focus outward, to use the community, not the conference room, as the reference point for choices and actions. Fifteen libraries across the state were chosen to participate based on their intent to more deeply engage with the communities.

Sandy Allman, Angela Eck, Dakota Hall, and Kelly Kennedy are attending from the Bartholomew County Public Library. The March workshop is being held at Indiana Wesleyan University in Indianapolis and the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services will be covering the costs.

Columbus Regional Health is reevaluating its plans for the former Holiday Inn and Clarion hotel property on Jonathan Moore Pike.

The hospital bought the hotel property with the intention of developing medical facilities on the west side of Columbus, but now that it is purchasing a large tract of farm land on the same side of the city, the entire hotel property is not seen as a necessity for the hospital’s future operations, says Kelsey DeClue, spokeswoman for CRH.

The hospital is buying farmland stretching from Garden City almost to the Interstate, DeClue said. Hospital officials expect to use 90 to 150 acres for medical uses and to make the rest open for development.

DeClue said there is no timeline yet on what might happen with the former hotel property. All of the hospital’s plans on the west side of Columbus are looking five to 15 years into the future, she said.

The hotel property is now piled high with concrete rubble. DeClue explains that the rubble came from the Interstate 65 project and will be used to lift the property out of the flood plain, making it usable for future development.

The former hotel property floods easily with any significant rainfall in the area.

State Rep. Jim Lucas is asking his constituents to take a survey to help set legislative priorities.

he Seymour Republican’s district includes parts of Bartholomew, Jackson, Jennings and Jefferson counties in southeastern Indiana.

He said that constituents’ input would help help him to serve as their voice during the session which started this week. The survey asks constituents to weigh in on education, medical marijuana, punishment for repeat overdose victims revived with Narcan and other issues.

You can find the survey here.