Hannah Lee Eskew, a sixth grader at North Elementary School, looks at the drug-free posters displayed in the Daviess County Courthouse. Area elementary students created drug-free posters that were entered into a competition hosted by the Davies County Prosecutors Office. The runners up, second places, first places and grand prize poster winners were invited to an award ceremony Thursday. See full results on Page 3A.

PETERSBURG — Pike County Sheriff deputies are working day and night excavating the home of Oakland City resident Kerry Thomas, 46, where they believe the remains of Patrick King will be uncovered, said Pike County Prosecutor Darrin McDonald at a press conference Friday afternoon.
The search for the body of King, who has been missing since Nov. 1, 1995, has been ongoing off and on since 2006, McDonald said referring to multiple interviews that have taken place.

The line stretched down the block Thursday as Daviess County residents waited patiently to enter the Washington High School gym and receive the H2N2 vaccine. The Daviess County Health Department sponsored the clinic for a targeted group who are at the greatest risk to the flu virus that has claimed 19 lives in Indiana.

Under the soft light at Central Christian Church, health care reform took the pulpit Thursday as about 30 people heard the need for total care reform.

ROCKPORT, Ind. (AP) — State police have arrested on a murder charge the stepfather of a 15-year-old southern Indiana girl whose body was found behind a shed near her home.
Indiana State Police say 32-year-old Ryan Lee Shelby of Rockport was arrested on a preliminary charge of murder at around 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Jasper State Police post. He was being held Wednesday at the Spencer County Jail. Police did not know whether he had a lawyer, but is scheduled to be arraigned in Spencer County today.

Barr-Reeve State Final Volleyball tickets are general admission, and on sale in the high school office today during school hours for $12. Tickets will not be available on Friday. These are season passes for both the morning and afternoon session at Muncie.

The trial of Vadney Blake in Daviess County set for today was cancelled late Tuesday afternoon.
Reporters in Superior Court said Tuesday the jury trial that was to take place was cancelled and no date has been set.
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Central Christian Church, 10 W. VanTrees St., will host a forum on health care reform at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Dr. Rob Stone, an emergency physician at Bloomington Hospital, will present the program: “Healthcare for All: Fiscally Conservative — Socially Responsible.” The program proposes to give information and discussion about the present health care reform debate, reforming what Dr. Stone says is a “non-system of sickness care.”
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“It’s like being home,” said Vickie Sherman sitting at a table sipping some freshly brewed coffee with her husband Brian. It’s not often business owners view their place of business as “home,” but the Shermans do.
Brian and Vickie opened Cherry Ghost Coffee House in October of 2008, after it’d previously been called MaxCafe under different ownership.
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