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State Police Responds to Accidents

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From midnight March 4th through 7:00 a.m. March 5, 2015 the Indiana State Police responded to 127 property damage crashes, 32 injury crashes, 1 fatal crash, 175 slide offs and 227 calls for general assistance.

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The attached state police Twitter message, with a photo of an ISP Mustang Trooper at the scene of a vehicle slide off along the first 20 miles of I-69, illustrates the hazardous conditions prevalent across southern Indiana throughout yesterday’s snow event.

ISP Responds to More Than 200 Calls Including One Fatal Crash

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Across central and southern Indiana, from Midnight March 4th on through 8 p.m., the Indiana State Police responded to reports of 99 Property Damage and 24 Personal Injury crashes, plus response to 116 vehicles that slid off the road and an additional 158 responses to assist motorists with traffic/weather related problems. 6358227_G

Unfortunately, there has also been one reported fatality crash that occurred in Hendricks County, around 7:20 this morning, at State Road 59 and County Road 200 North.

In southern Indiana, on I-64 in Vanderburgh County, the west bound lanes are closed due to different crash scenes at the 12 and 18 mile markers.  It is expected the lanes will be closed through 11:00 p.m. this evening.

Road conditions in central Indiana range from isolated slick spots, with deteriorating conditions farther south to very treacherous conditions in the southern most portions of Indiana.

Hoosiers should carefully consider if travel is necessary, especially when roads are snow covered, icy and hazardous. If travel is necessary, the Indiana State Police, Indiana Department of Transportation and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security are encouraging motorists to use a variety of resources to make an informed decision.

One source is the Indiana County Travel Advisory Map. It’s updated with travel information determined by county emergency management agencies and describes the conditions for a travel warning, watch, advisory and caution.

The map is available online at http://www.in.gov/dhs/traveladvisory/  or on a mobile device by downloading the Indiana Travel Advisory app for iPhone (https://appsto.re/us/QHVw4.i) in the App Store, and Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.in.traveladvisory) in the Google Play Store.

Keep an eye on road conditions and closures across the state using the Indiana Department of Transportation’s TrafficWise service at trafficwise.in.gov.

When roads are ice covered, the only difference between two wheel drive and four wheel drive vehicles is how many of your tires are sliding on the ice.

Please be patient to avoid becoming a patient.

MythBusters Coming to Indy April 19

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The all-new live show MythBusters Jamie & Adam UNLEASHED!, starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series “MythBusters,” debuts at the Murat Theatre at Old National Centre in Indianapolis for one night only on Sunday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are on sale now at the Old National Centre Box Office, oldnationalcentre.com, all Ticketmaster outlets or by phone at 1-800-745-3000.

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MythBusters Jamie & Adam UNLEASHED! presents a fantastical evening of on-stage experiments, audience participation, exciting videos, and behind-the-scenes stories.   With this show, fans join Jamie and Adam onstage to assist in their mind-blowing and mind-twisting approaches to science.

MythBusters Jamie & Adam UNLEASHED!brings you face-to-face with the curious world of Jamie and Adam as the duo matches wits on stage with each other and members of the audience. Jamie Hyneman has announced that he will end touring with the live show this year.

Since 2012, Jamie and Adam have toured North America, Australia and New Zealand with their live show.  To date, they have performed in 91 cities, given 102 performances, over 200,000 people have seen them onstage and the tour has grossed over $12 million. This April, the tour will perform 17 dates across the US.

One of the most highly regarded and watched series on the Discovery Channel, “MythBusters” is now in its thirteenth season. Co-hosted by Hyneman and Savage, the show mixes scientific method with gleeful curiosity and plain old-fashioned ingenuity to create its own signature style of explosive experimentation – and the supporting orde-bunking of urban myths that we live with day to day.

Jamie and Adam have become spokespersons at large for applying science to real life – most recently as hosts of the Discovery Channel special “iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World,” and have appeared on numerous shows including “Late Show with David Letterman,” “Good Morning America,” “The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” “The Colbert Report,” NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition,” “Countdown with Keith Olberman,” and many more.  They were invited to participate in Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Fear And/Or Sanity and have received the Young Artist Award for inspiring young people in the interest of science. The MythBusters have been invited to participate on a panel at Comic-Con, where their appearances have sold-out four years running.

Jamie and Adam serve as guest editors for Popular Mechanics and were featured on the cover of the September 2009 issue.  That same year, they were inducted as honorary members into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.  They are Honorary Lifetime Members of the California Science Teachers Association and were named Honorary Engineers and Honorary Members of the Francis Crowe Society at the University of Maine.  Both Hyneman and Savage were given honorary Doctorates at the University of Twente in the Netherlands for their efforts at popularization of science.

Jamie and Adam produced and starred in an H1N1 Public Service Announcement for the White House, and were chosen by the President to retest the Archimedes legend using 500 schoolchildren as surrogate soldiers.

They appeared as themselves in the movie Darwin Awards and have made several cameos on other TV shows, including CSI.  And In 2010, Hyneman and Savage received the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Secular Society.

About Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage

Orleans Bicentennial Postal Mark

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On March 11, the United States Postal Service and the Orleans Bicentennial Committee will honor the 200th Anniversary of the founding of Orleans with a commemorative pictorial cancellation.

A pictorial cancellation is a unique postmark offered by the U.S. Postal Service to commemorate special events. Items that are cancelled using a commemorative design usually in very limited quantity are often sought after by stamp collectors and other interested in U.S. postal history.

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The postmark features the official Orleans 200 logo designed by Brandon Deckard.

According to Bicentennial Committee member Robert Henderson there are a several ways to participate in this historic event. One option is pick up a free special Orleans 200 Postcards now available through both the Orleans Town offices and Orleans Library or be present for the kick-off event downtown on Wednesday,March 11 to get your postcard.

Orleans Postmaster Lora Daugherty has announced that on that one day only, from the hours of 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. and Noon to 4:15 p.m. any one may bring their card into the post office purchase a 34 cent postcard stamp and receive the special postmark.

The Postmaster will also make available this unique pictorial cancellation on any material that bears un-cancelled postage at the U.S. First Class rate of 49 cents. These items do not require an address, as once cancelled, the item is immediately returned to the individual.

Anyone who can not attend the event can participate through the mail back service offered by the Orleans Postmaster. For more details please contact the Orleans Postmaster, (812) 865-2488.

Spring Forward This Sunday

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Even if it doesn’t feel like spring, it’s almost time to move your clocks ahead an hour.

It’s always nice to have extra daylight after work or school to enjoy the evening, and we’re about to get another hour.

Though many people refer to the day clocks spring forward as the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, it’s technically Daylight Saving Time.

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Daylight Saving Time officially begins Sunday, March 8, 2015. The time change officially takes place at 2 a.m., but you don’t have to spring out of bed and move the big hand on your clock ahead an hour. The change is automatic for most smartphones, computers, tablets and other digital devices.

Only Hawaii, parts of Arizona and some U.S. territories do not adjust their clocks twice a year.

If you’re still using an analog alarm clock, you’ll probably want to move it ahead before you go to sleep on Saturday, or when you wake up the next morning.

The Energizer battery company and the International Association of Fire Chiefs urge you to use the clock change as a reminder to change the batteries in your home smoke detectors. This simple and easy action will double your family’s chance of surviving a house fire.

You will “fall back,” or turn your clocks back one hour later this year on November 1, 2015.

Dogwood Festival coming April 29 – May 2 in Orleans

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The Annual 47th Dogwood Festival will be from April 29 – May 2.

Orleans Chamber of Commerce says there will be carnival rides, games, children’s activities, arts and crafts, a hometown parade, food, live entertainment and hopefully the Historic Congress Square will be surrounded by dogwoods in full-bloom.

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Admission is free.

The event is recognized as one of Midwest Living Magazine’s “Top Five Flowering Festivals”.

The dogwood tree is the trademark of Orleans, the Dogwood Capital of Indiana, as “Operation Dogwood,” was launched in the mid-1960s with a goal of having hundreds of the trees planted along roadways, the historic town park square and in yards. The annual Dogwood Festival celebrates the town’s beautiful Dogwood blossoms each spring.

Orleans turns 200 years old in 2015 (1815-2015). This milestone will be celebrated with special events throughout the year, so mark your calendars and plan to be a part of the year-long birthday Bicentennial Celebration.

The Orleans Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Police Waiting on Autopsy in West Baden’s Man’s Death

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The Indiana State Police and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department are continuing their death investigation in yesterday’s death of an Orange County man.

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Around 11:30 A.M. yesterday, officers responded to 5491 West County Road 100 North, West Baden, where Franklin D. McCracken, 30, West Baden, was found inside the residence with unknown injuries. McCracken was flown to the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, KY, where he died.

Investigators are awaiting the final results of the autopsy and other pathology testing before making conclusions regarding McCracken’s death. Those tests should be completed this week.

No other information is available at this time.

Anyone with information regarding McCracken or this investigation is asked to contact the Indiana State Police at the Jasper Post by calling 812-482-1441. Callers can remain anonymous.

Washington Man Arrested for OWI After Fighting With State Trooper

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A Washington man was arrested last night on half a dozen charges following a traffic stop in Washington.owi-arrest-320x200_nbc15

Arrested was Justin A. Fuquay, 30, of 5 North Meridian Street, Washington, IN. He was charged with Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer, Level 6 Felony; Intimidation Against a Law Enforcement Officer, Level 6 Felony; Resisting Law Enforcement, Class A Misdemeanor; Operating While Intoxicated, BAC .15 or Higher, Class A Misdemeanor; Operating While Intoxicated, Endangering a Person, Class A Misdemeanor and- Disorderly Conduct, Class B Misdemeanor.

Around 10:15 P.M., Trooper Mitch Wier stopped a gold pick-up truck on Meridian Street in Washington for exceeding the posted speed limit.

While speaking with the driver Trooper Wier detected an odor of alcoholic beverages and signs of impairment. After conducting field sobriety tests, Trooper Wier attempted to place Fuquay in handcuffs.

Fuquay began to resist, attempting to push Wier and other officers, as well as pull away from them. After being placed in Trooper Wier’s police car, officers observed that Fuquay had managed to get his handcuffed wrists from behind his back to his front.

Fuquay was taken out of the car, at which point officers attempted to re-handcuff him behind his back. Fuquay continued to forcibly resist, using his shoulders and elbows to strike officers, and at one point attempted to spit on an officer.

Fuquay was taken to Daviess Community Hospital for blood alcohol tests, where Trooper Wier not only learned that Fuquay had a blood alcohol content of .190%, he had also smoked synthetic marijuana earlier in the evening. Fuquay was taken to the Daviess County Jail without further incident. Assisting Agencies were the Washington Police Department, Daviess County Sheriff’s Department

State Police respond to more than 600 Calls for Service during winter weather

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Across Indiana from 7 p.m. yesterday evening through 3 p.m. today the Indiana State Police report: 224 Property Damage and 45 Personal Injury crashes plus response to 237 vehicles that slid off the road and an additional 137 responses to assist motorists with traffic/weather related problems.

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Fortunately, thus far, there have been no fatality crashes investigated by the Indiana State Police during this weather event.  At the time of this report, there were no reported road closures.

As mentioned in earlier messages, Hoosiers should carefully consider if travel is necessary, especially when roads are snow covered, icy and hazardous. If travel is necessary, the Indiana State Police, Indiana Department of Transportation and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security are encouraging motorists to use a variety of resources to make an informed decision.

One source is the Indiana County Travel Advisory Map. It’s updated with travel information determined by county emergency management agencies and describes the conditions for a travel warning, watch, advisory and caution.

The map is available online at http://www.in.gov/dhs/traveladvisory/  or on a mobile device by downloading the Indiana Travel Advisory app for iPhone (https://appsto.re/us/QHVw4.i) in the App Store, and Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.in.traveladvisory) in the Google Play Store.

Keep an eye on road conditions and closures across the state using the Indiana Department of Transportation’s TrafficWise service at trafficwise.in.gov.

If you must travel, leave early, drive slower and arrive alive.

Wintery Mix, Ice Could Affect Southern Indiana

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There is a potential for a wintry mix in the southern half of Indiana tonight, including sleet and freezing rain transitioning into snow on Sunday. State agencies are advising Hoosiers to prepare now for potentially deteriorating conditions.

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Hoosiers should carefully consider if travel is necessary, especially if roads become hazardous. If travel is necessary, the Indiana State Police, Indiana Department of Transportation and the Indiana Department of Homeland Security are encouraging motorists to use a variety of resources to make an informed decision.

One source is the Indiana County Travel Advisory Map. It’s updated with travel information determined by county emergency management agencies and describes the conditions for a travel warning, watch, advisory and caution.

The map is available online at http://www.in.gov/dhs/traveladvisory/  or on a mobile device by downloading the Indiana Travel Advisory app for iPhone (https://appsto.re/us/QHVw4.i) in the App Store, and Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.in.traveladvisory) in the Google Play Store.

Keep an eye on road conditions and closures across the state using the Indiana Department of Transportation’s TrafficWise service at trafficwise.in.gov.

In addition to these tools, stay aware of changing travel conditions by monitoring the local news, travel, weather and trusted social media sites and apps.

Citizens that must travel should let someone know the planned route, expected time of arrival and contact information. Charge cell phones before leaving. Pack essential items such as high protein snacks, water, first aid kit, flashlight, warm blankets, extra prescription medications and important documents or information that might be needed during an emergency.
 
Develop a Plan

Winter weather, especially ice, can cause power outages. Hoosiers should be prepared to take action should the power go out. Citizens should look up their electric utility’s outage reporting phone number and add it to their cell phone contact list.

Other ways to get ready include:

– Charge cell phones, laptops and any other battery-operated accessories to ensure maximum battery life when without power.

– Know where to go should the power go out. Identify a friend or family member’s house, or a nearby shelter or warming station that can be used. If none of these are available, identify the most insulated and interior room available and gather extra clothing, warm blankets and sleeping bags to help stay warm.

– Prepare an emergency kit, including food and water for three days (includes three gallons of water per person, per day), a battery operated or hand crank all hazards radio, a flashlight and extra batteries and any other special items (baby formula, insulin, medications).

Take the time to check with neighbors and see if there’s anything they can do before, during or after the storm.

For more winter weather preparedness information, visit www.GetPrepared.in.gov.