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New equipment appears to be on the way for the Marion Fire Department. The City Council on Tuesday approved the department transfer $125,000 from salaries, overtime and protective clothing accounts to the department’s equipment account. Fire Chief Steve Gorrell said the new equipment will help the department get up to speed with National Fire Protection Association guidelines and suggestions. He hopes to purchase hoses, generators, extrication equipment and furnaces for two fire stations
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A Madison County man is free from prison for the first time in 16 years. 42-year old Walter Goudy was released from the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Thursday. He was convicted of murder in the 1994 killing of Marvin McCloud of Anderson, a conviction overturned by a federal appeals court. Officials opted to release Goudy [...]
The release of Walter Goudy will play a role in Madison County politics this fall. Republican prosecutor candidate Rodney Cummings says he’ll re-try Goudy for the murder of Marvin McCloud, who was shot to death outside the former Oasis Tavern. Cummings was the lead police detective on the case before he was elected prosecutor. Cummings [...]
A New Castle woman has been arrested on three charges of Social Security fraud. 49-year old Viola Whalen is accused of receiving benefit payments for one of her children whose father had died. Investigators say that child was actually being cared for by other relatives. Officials say Whalen fraudulently collected about $117,000 in Social Security [...]