The 43rd Annual IHSAA Girls Basketball State Tournament Pairings Show was held Sunday afternoon and broadcast live on WSLM 1220 AM and WSLM 97.9 FM as well as streamed live on wslmradio.com 

Games will begin on Tuesday, January 30 and continue on Friday, Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb. 4. 

Admission: $6 per session; $10 all sessions.

Regional games will begin on Saturday, February 10. Admission: $7 per session; $10 both sessions.

Semi-State games will be played on Saturday, February 17, 2018. Admission: $8.

State Finals will be in Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Saturday, February 24, 2018. Admission: $15.00 per session (two games). | All day tickets (Four games for $30) may be ordered online here.

The defending Class 2A State Champions Eastern Musketeers will face Crawford County on Wednesday at 6p in the second game of the Class 2A Sectional 46 at Austin High School in Game 2.

The Lady Musketeers last faced Crawford County in a road game on Dec. 21 and defeated the Wolf Pack 50-32. 

The Musketeers are ranked #1 in Class 2A right now according to Max Preps. 

The third game on Wednesday will be at 7:30p with Clarksville and Providence. 

Austin will play the winner of the 1st game on Friday at 6p. The winners of the Wednesday night games will play at 6p on Saturday. The winner of the Friday night game and the early Saturday game will play in the championship game at 7:30p 

Other Sectionals

3A Sectional 30 at Salem

On Tuesday’s debut games, Corydon Central will face Silver Creek in the first game. 

Brownstown and Charlestown will face off in the 2nd game on Tuesday night at 7:30p

On Friday’s second round, Scottsburg will face the the winner of Tuesday’s first game at 6p. 

Salem will face the winner of Tuesday’s second game at 7:30p. 

The championship game will be played Saturday at 7p.

Class 1A Sectional 62

Crothersville and Shawe Memorial will face each other for the first game in Sectional 62 action at West Washington. 

Edinburgh and Medora will play Tuesday at 7:30p. 

The Lady Senators will play the winner of the first game at 6p Friday. 

Trinity Lutheran will play the winner of Tuesday’s second game on Friday at 7:30p

The Championship game will be played at 7:30p Saturday

Dates: January 30-February 3, 2018.
Admission: $6 per session; $10 all sessions.
Home Team: The second team listed in each game is the designated home team.
Official Basketball: The Wilson Evolution Wide Channel (B0586), the official ball of the IHSAA state tournament, will be provided for use at each host site. 

Josh J. Minkler, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today that Rene A. Boucher, 58, Bowling Green, Kentucky, has been charged with assaulting a Rand Paul, a member of congress resulting in personal injury, a felony under federal
law.

Boucher faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000.

Boucher signed a plea agreement, but no court day has been set for sentencing.

“Assaulting a member of Congress is an offense we take very seriously,” said Minkler.
“Those who choose to commit such an act will be held accountable.”

According to court documents, Boucher and the Paul are neighbors in Bowling Green,
Kentucky.

On November 3, 2017, the victim was mowing his yard while wearing headphones.

Boucher allegedly witnessed the victim stack brush onto a pile near the victim’s property and “had enough.”

Boucher ran onto Paul’s property and tackled him.

As a result of this assault, Paul suffered multiple fractured ribs and subsequently contracted and required medical attention for pneumonia.

Boucher admitted the assault but denied it was politically motivated.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana was assigned the
case following the recusal of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of
Kentucky where the offense is alleged to have been committed.

Boucher has signed a plea agreement but no date has been set for the taking of his guilty
plea and the imposition of sentence.

This case was investigated by the Louisville office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“Just as we are committed to protecting the American people, the FBI will not tolerate
violence directed against members of Congress,” said Special Agent in Charge Amy S. Hess of the FBI’s Louisville field office. “Those who choose to assault any federal official are certain to face serious consequences.”

No future court dates have been set.

According to Assistant United States Attorney Bradley P. Shepard of the United States
Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana who is prosecuting this case as a Special Attorney to the United States Attorney General, Boucher faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment anda fine of up to $250,000.

A 58-year-old Booneville man was shot and killed this morning during a confrontation with Booneville City Police. 

The suspect in the shooting has been identified as Marshall Coleman, 58, of Boonville.

According to state police detectives, the 911 call reporting a male with two knives threatening people at Governor Boon Square Apartments came from Coleman’s cell phone.

Coleman resides in the complex and detectives believe Coleman made the 911 call to initiate a confrontation with police.

When officers arrived they didn’t see anyone else outside other than Coleman and no other tenants reported being threatened or injured by Coleman.

Initially, Warrick County Sheriff’s Department 911 Dispatch received a call regarding an individual with two knives that was threatening people at Governor Boon Square Apartments in Boonville.

Two Boonville City Police officers arrived within two minutes and observed a male subject with two knives on the south side of the apartment complex. 

The individual was told to drop the knives, but he refused and kept walking toward the officers.

One officer discharged his Taser several times, but it was ineffective. The individual continued to approach the officers and refused to drop the knives.

The second officer discharged his firearm striking the suspect. 

Officers immediately contacted an ambulance and started to treat the individual for his injuries. He was transported to St. Vincent Hospital in Evansville where he died from his injuries.

Indiana State Police detectives and crime scene technicians are still on scene gathering information. Detectives are still attempting to positively identify the suspect.

The Boonville City Police Officers involved in the incident have been identified as Lt. Mark Hadley and Patrolman Trevor Winters.

Both officers were placed on paid administrative leave until at least Monday.

The autopsy is taking place at this hour and additional information will be released as it becomes available.

At approximately 2:45 am this morning, Trooper Tate Rohlfing made a traffic stop on Interstate #65 near the 21 Mile Marker in Clark County north bound.

The traffic stop was on a green GMC Safari for a traffic infraction.

During the traffic stop trooper Rohlfing discovered two of the passengers inside of the van were wanted on arrest warrants out of Hamilton County, IN.

Along with other troopers responding to the scene, a Jeffersonville City Police Officer with his police K-9 responded.

When the K-9 sniffed at the vehicle it made a positive indication for controlled substances in the vehicle.

A subsequent search of the vehicle and the people in the vehicle yielded a small amount of 

Methamphetamine.

When troopers transported the arrested subjects to the jail, one of the arrested was found to have approximately five ounces of Methamphetamine hidden in his underwear next to his rectum.

Arrested and Charges;

David A. Stapleton, had meth in underwear, 27, of Noblesville, IN.

• Dealing in Methamphetamine 10 grams or more.
• Possession of Methamphetamine 28 grams or more.
• Trafficking with an Inmate.
• Maintaining a Common Nuisance.
• Identity Deception.
• False informing.
• Arrest Warrant; Hamilton County, Indiana.

Bryan M. White, 29, of Noblesville, IN.

• Identify Deception.
• Visiting of a Common Nuisance.
• False informing.
• Arrest Warrant; Hamilton County, Indiana.

Jennifer L. Ingalsbe, driver, 35, of Crawfordsville, IN.

• Maintaining a Common Nuisance.

The arrested were incarcerated at the Clark County Jail awaiting their first court appearance.

This investigation is continuing.

Media Note-Photos of the arrested are attached to this news release along with the Methamphetamine seized. David Stapleton is the subject wearing the plain white t-shirt with his head tilted. Bryan White is wearing a white shirt with red insignia and red collar.

The Clark County Sheriff’s Department also assisted in this case.

The top two Republicans in the Indiana Legislature said Thursday that bills that would overturn an unusual law and allow more stores to sell cold beer is dead this legislative session.

But both conceded the issue won’t go away and suggested that a deal could be struck in the coming years.

“A lot of these things take some time,” said House Speaker Brian Bosma of Indianapolis. “Gradualism is a part of legislative achievement.”

Senate leader David Long of Fort Wayne added: “There are ways to solve this … I think it can get done.”

Indiana is the only state that restricts which retailers can sell carryout cold beer. The GOP leaders’ comments come after a Senate panel voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday against a proposal that would have changed that.

Currently, grocers, convenience stores and pharmacies can sell cold wine and warm beer. But the sale of cold beer is primarily restricted to liquor stores, whose owners exercise their considerable clout to keep it that way.

For decades, lawmakers have agreed with that approach. But, more recently, that has started to change, despite an inherent resistance to change that is touted as an inherent part of the state’s character.

Indeed, the fact the bill was even given a hearing was a sign of “progress,” said Long. Other lawmakers have said it was the first time in decades — if not ever — that a committee had taken up such a proposal.

Long challenged supporters of cold beer legislation to come up with a plan and come back next year. Proponents say that’s exactly what they did, but Senate Public Policy committee Chairman Ron Alting, a Lafayette Republican, refused to hear their proposals at the hearing.

“That’s the chairman’s prerogative,” Long said. “People that don’t win tend to say things should have been different.”

The bill was voted down on a 9-1 vote. Under Senate rules, a bill defeated by such decisive numbers can’t be revived in the same session, Long said.

However, it happened last year when the Senate revived a defeated bill that made the state schools superintendent an appointed position, rather than an elected one. The measure, a priority of Gov. Eric Holcomb, was later approved and signed it into law.

Instead, lawmakers say they want to focus this year on a different alcohol priority: repealing the state’s prohibition-era ban on carryout Sunday alcohol sales.

It appears to have considerable support, though similar efforts have been scuttled in the past. The most recent push to repeal the law foundered when big box retailers and package liquor stores couldn’t come to terms.

The liquor store lobby thought it would allow big-box stores to siphon away considerable business on a major shopping day. And big box stores balked when changes were made to the bill to impose significant restrictions on how and where alcohol could be sold, including a requirement to keep hard liquor behind a special counter.

“I’m hopeful that we can put that one to bed and get it behind us and then move on,” Bosma said.

After over 8 hours, police arrested a 76-year-old Birdseye man who had barricaded himself in his house after allegedly shooting at a county worker earlier in the afternoon, closing Interstate 64 for the duration of the event.

At 11:13 pm after several hours of communicating with suspect, Indiana State Police SWAT breached the front door, and he then surrendered peacefully.  

The suspect, Virgil Lee Crews, 76, 4715 Pine Ridge Road was taken to Jasper Memorial Hospital for evaluation before being taken to the Dubois County Security Center.  

Crews is charged with Criminal Recklessness with a Firearm and Battery. 

“We are pleased that this incident ended peacefully and that no one was seriously injured.  I would like to thank everyone that assisted with this detail.  The peaceful outcome was truly a team effort,” said Lt. Allen, Commander of the Jasper Post.

State Road 64 was officially re-opened at 11:45 pm.

Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies responded to the area of State Road 64 and Pine Ridge Road around 3 p.m. after the Dubois County 911 Center received a call from a Dubois County Highway Department worker saying he had been shot at.

Indiana State Police say a preliminary investigation indicates that the Dubois County Highway Department was grading the snow on Pine Ridge Road north of the highway. 

As the driver turned the grader around and started north on Pine Ridge Road, he noticed a male standing near the mailbox of 4715 Pine Ridge Road.  Shortly after seeing him, police said, the window of the grader was shot.

Shortly after seeing the male, the window of the grader was shot.  The driver of the grader left the area and called 911.  

Fortunately, the Dubois County Highway Department employee only received minor cuts to his face from the broken glass.

Officers responded and established a perimeter around the residence at 4715 Pine Ridge Road and attempted to establish communications with the suspect.  

Investigators are asking for anyone who might have been in the area at the time the shooting occurred to call the Indiana State Police Jasper Post at 812-482-1441.

Assisting Agencies:  Dubois County Sheriff’s Department, Indiana State Conservation Officers, Ferdinand Police Department, American Red Cross, SE District School Corporation

Two Washington County football players have been selected to the Indiana Football Coach’s Association Region 10 All-Star list. 

West Washington’s Griffin Packwood, a Defensive Tackle, has been selected to the All-Star Defensive team. 

He is one of only two 1A team members. 

Salem High School’s Wide Receiver Evan Brishaber, was named to the IFCA Offensive Team. He is one of five from 3A schools. 

The 52nd game will be played on Friday, July 13, 2018 at North Central High School in Indianapolis at 7:30 pm.

Other players participating from around the state are:

IFCA Defensive Team 

IFCA Offensive Team