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Ex-Indiana jailer gets probation for driving into protesters

September 22, 2022 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A former Indiana jail officer accused of driving into a group of people in 2020 as they were protesting the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police has been sentenced to probation.

Work at Stellantis plant to resume after deal with UAW

By MICHELLE CHAPMANSeptember 13, 2022 GMT

United Auto Workers union members who went on strike Saturday at a Stellantis casting plant in Indiana are returning to work after ratifying a deal with the company.

Stellantis said that operations at the plant in Kokomo will resume late Monday after UAW Local 1166 workers voted to ratify the agreement.

UAW workers go on strike at Stellantis plant in Indiana

September 10, 2022 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — United Auto Workers union members went on strike Saturday at the Stellantis casting plant in Indiana, citing health and safety issues including the company's alleged refusal to repair and replace the plant’s air conditioning and heating systems.

Haynes International: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot

July 28, 2022 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) _ Haynes International Inc. (HAYN) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $15.6 million.

The Kokomo, Indiana-based company said it had net income of $1.24 per share.

‘Right thing at the right time’: Teens save 6 from fire

June 18, 2022 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Three teenagers who discovered a house on fire helped six people and four animals escape the flames in Kokomo, authorities said.

Max Campbell and brothers Alex and Julian Lindley, all students at Taylor High School, were dropping off a friend when they saw the fire early Thursday.

Indiana woman, 80, found dead in ditch with dog had drowned

June 1, 2022 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — An 80-year-old woman found dead along with her dog in a ditch days after she went missing from her north-central Indiana home had died from drowning, a coroner said.

2 doctors to evaluate teen charged with killing Indiana girl

May 31, 2022 GMT

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The judge presiding over the murder trial of a 15-year-old charged with killing a 6-year-old northern Indiana girl ruled Tuesday that two doctors will conduct psychological examinations to determine if he's competent to stand trial.

Stellantis, Samsung plan Indiana electric car battery plant

May 24, 2022 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A joint venture between Stellantis and Samsung plans to build an electric vehicle battery factory in Indiana that will employ up to 1,400 workers and become the company’s second such factory in North America.

Stellantis making Indiana announcement; may be battery plant

May 23, 2022 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — Automaker Stellantis has scheduled an announcement for Tuesday in Kokomo, Indiana, for what could be the company's second North American electric vehicle battery factory.

The company said it will give an update on the future of its Kokomo operations at an Indiana community college on Tuesday afternoon.

Boy, 14, held in fatal shooting of 17-year-old brother

May 1, 2022 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy faces a murder charge in the fatal shooting of his 17-year-old brother in central Indiana.

The shooting was reported Saturday afternoon in Kokomo, police said.

Haynes International: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

April 28, 2022 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) _ Haynes International Inc. (HAYN) on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $8.5 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.

The Kokomo, Indiana-based company said it had profit of 67 cents per share.

Indiana city drafts cleanup plan of soils tainted with PCBs

March 14, 2022 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A north-central Indiana city has drafted a plan for cleaning up contaminated soils that halted an expansion of the city’s sewage treatment plant when they were discovered last year.

Kokomo woman sentenced for drowning grandson in bathtub

January 20, 2022 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A Kokomo woman who police say confessed to drowning her 4-year-old grandson was sentenced Thursday to 65 years.

Helen Martin, 58, will serve 45 years in prison and the remainder under supervised probation, the Kokomo Tribune reported.

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By The Associated PressOctober 9, 2021 GMT

Stellantis retooling 3 Indiana plants for electric vehicles

October 7, 2021 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Automaker Stellantis plans to spend nearly $230 million on retooling three Indiana factories so they can produce transmission systems that work with both traditional gasoline-powered vehicles and gas-electric hybrid versions.

Indiana man gets no jail time in crash that killed girl, 10

September 29, 2021 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A Kokomo man who pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a 2018 crash that fatally injured a 10-year-old girl has been sentenced to work release and in-home detention.

Two jailed after attempted kidnapping of child in store

September 25, 2021 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — Two people have been arrested after one of them allegedly tried to take a 1-year-old child from a shopping cart in a central Indiana Walmart store.

The child’s mother told officers a woman appeared to purposely bump her before unbuckling the child from the cart about 11:30 a.m.

Man wins candy factory after finding Indiana’s golden ticket

By CARSON GERBERSeptember 19, 2021 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — For over three months, a small necklace with a golden ticket attached lay buried in the ground at Highland Park, waiting to be found.

Andrew Maas, a 39-year-old father from Colorado, did just that.

NTSB blames 2019 plane crash near Kokomo on wrong fuel

August 24, 2021 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board released a report Tuesday saying a 2019 plane crash was caused by a dual engine failure after the aircraft received the wrong fuel.

The twin-engine Piper Aerostar 603P crashed in a central Indiana soybean field in October 2019, killing pilot Daniel Greenwald, 59, of Tampa, Florida, after his plane was filled up with Jet A fuel instead of Avgas.

Kokomo man gets in-home detention for deadly 2019 crash

August 10, 2021 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A Kokomo man has been sentenced to a month of in-home detention for a 2019 crash that killed a 76-year-old woman in a department store’s parking lot.

A Howard County judge sentenced Kody Key on Monday to 60 days in the county jail but suspended all but 30 days, which Key must spend on in-home detention, according to court records.

Florida surgeon’s estate settles suit over plane crash death

June 5, 2021 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — The estate of a Florida plastic surgeon who died in 2019 when his small plane crashed in a central Indiana farm field shortly after takeoff has settled its lawsuit with the city of Kokomo.

Cause of Kokomo-area fire that killed 3 kids undetermined

May 11, 2021 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — The cause of a fire that killed three young siblings in February is undetermined but may have been started by one of the children, investigators say.

A “human element” likely played a role in the Feb...

Indiana city recruits officers in new TV commercial, website

October 18, 2020 GMT

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A city in north central Indiana has launched a website and began airing a TV commercial this week in an effort to recruit more police officers...

GM, Ford complete US contracts to build breathing machines

September 1, 2020 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it has finished making 30,000 medical breathing machines for the U...

This time, Pence wears mask as he tours Indiana plant

By JILL COLVINApril 30, 2020 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — This time, he wore a mask.

Vice President Mike Pence donned a face covering Thursday as he toured a General Motors/Ventec ventilator production facility in Indiana after

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