http://www.thecouriertimes.com en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 02:16:02 GMT Daily feed of articles http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281356 New Castle City Council on Monday took the next step toward permitting the use of golf carts on city streets. Council members voted unanimously to proceed with drafting an ordinance regulating how golf carts can be used after hearing public input. News Wed, 22 May 2013 13:08:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281355 Nick Stearns is excited to go to college this summer - as a sixth-grader. Stearns is the first New Castle student to be accepted in Northwestern University's 2013 Center for Talent Development summer program. He leaves June 30 and will stay for three weeks. News Wed, 22 May 2013 13:06:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281354 KNIGHTSTOWN - When one water valve breaks these days in Knightstown's aging system, several people are affected. Monday night, the Knightstown Town Council took a major step toward changing that. News Wed, 22 May 2013 12:44:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281343 VATICAN CITY - Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has bubbled up ever since Francis laid his hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair after celebrating Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him. News Tue, 21 May 2013 21:03:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281342 PHOENIX (AP) - Jodi Arias begged jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail. News Tue, 21 May 2013 20:58:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281341 Oklahoma City-based AP photographer Sue Ogrocki was at the elementary school destroyed by a tornado and saw rescuers pulling children out of the rubble. This is her account of what she witnessed. News Tue, 21 May 2013 20:55:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281339 ATLANTA (AP) - Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. News Tue, 21 May 2013 20:53:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281337 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An atheist organization has complained to Ball State University that an honors course curriculum exploring the nature of the universe is religion disguised as science. University officials say they're investigating the issue. News Tue, 21 May 2013 20:51:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281310 Some may say the Indianapolis 500 is a race built on tradition, history and families, like the Andrettis and Unsers. On Sunday, a New Castle family left an Indy 500 mark of its own through photography. News Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281313 HAGERSTOWN - Two men - one of whom reportedly had a semi-automatic handgun - robbed the Hartley Hills Country Club Monday morning, slightly injuring an employee in the process. News Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281316 The new circulation director of The Courier-Times, David Brandt, is a California native who jokingly claims he has two wives. News Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281317 BAGHDAD (AP) - A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years. News Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281315 PHOENIX (AP) - Defense attorneys for Jodi Arias asked the judge to remove them from the case and declare a mistrial Monday, arguing the frenzy surrounding the case has created a modern-day witch hunt. News Mon, 20 May 2013 20:15:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281314 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so. News Mon, 20 May 2013 20:12:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281312 Wind turbines, road funding and an airport runway extension will be on the agenda when Henry County Commissioners meet today. News Mon, 20 May 2013 20:09:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281311 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two autistic children were killed and four other people were injured when they were caught in a fire Monday in the Indianapolis condominium, authorities said. News Mon, 20 May 2013 19:42:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281305 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A musical by John Mellencamp, writer Stephen King and T Bone Burnett will debut in Bloomington this fall before embarking on a tour of 20 U.S. cities. News Mon, 20 May 2013 03:32:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281303 Mayor Greg York made it clear in his visit Thursday to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, that while he appreciates the race car drivers rushing by at 200 mph, marketing New Castle is what gets him most excited. News Mon, 20 May 2013 03:20:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281302 Bruce Aaron decided to start The Guest House for homeless men after a few came to him asking for a place to stay. The homeless shelter resides in the former seventh-grade building on Walnut Street. The school was donated to the The House Church about a year ago. News Mon, 20 May 2013 03:09:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281301 Henry County's preliminary unemployment rate for April dropped out of the double-digit category and almost fell out of the state's top third. Indiana Workforce Development statistics showed the local rate at 9.3 percent, an improvement over both last month and last year. News Mon, 20 May 2013 03:04:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281294 Courier-Times Customer Appreciation Day will be Wednesday. Residents can save on all new subscriptions, or add weeks, or years to their current home delivery subscriptions. News Sat, 18 May 2013 11:43:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281293 Almost 200 years ago, West Virginia's rugged and ragged landscape frustrated a man named Jesse Ice. He wanted a place to farm that was easier to manage, friendlier to his crops and a better place to raise a family. News Sat, 18 May 2013 11:38:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281292 Mark Newman can't forget his delight in tasting the custom-made, key-lime-pie ice cream. Newman, director of the Indiana Office of Tourism Development, visited a Hoosier ice cream parlor and he asked if the employee could make him ice cream in that unique flavor. Before his eyes, and without pause, she gathered the flavoring, cream, graham-cracker crust and churned it into ice cream. It was delicious. And personal. News Sat, 18 May 2013 11:36:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281279 Jan Fischer of Shirley interprets the life of Harrier Beecher Stowe for a Tri Elementary School American history class Thursday. News Fri, 17 May 2013 07:28:00 GMT http://www.thecouriertimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=40&ArticleID=281278 A Rush County man has been arrested on multiple felony charges stemming from a suspicious 2009 barn fire in Fayette County. State troopers located a machine gun and bomb constructing materials inside his home, 2597 S. Road 800E in Rush County, when they served a search warrant Thursday, May 9. News Fri, 17 May 2013 07:26:00 GMT