With the Ohio River threatening to reach flood stages not seen since 1997, Hancock County officials are implementing ...

Significant flooding is still causing problems in Shelby and Bartholomew Counties. Roads, fields, rivers, creeks and streams have all been flooded by the historic amount of rain central Indiana has ...

The towns face a tight deadline. If they don’t take ownership before October 13, they risk the state greenlighting the ...

Ferrucci is a proud native of New Jersey. Barry Regula, general manager of Hollywood Gulf Coast and Boomtown Biloxi casinos, ...

For the second time this week, severe weather battered parts of central Indiana. A powerful storm swept through several ...

BRUNSWICK — Seventh grader Esme Filippo from The Bay School in Hancock County is headed to the nation’s most prestigious spelling bee after securing a win on Saturday at the Maine State ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, W.Va. — Former Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputy Patrick Hoder, arrested in August 2024 for possessing more than 600 illicit images depicting minors in sexually explicit conduct ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ga. — The Hancock County Sheriff's Office arrested two people for allegedly smuggling contraband cellphones, drugs and tools into Hancock State Prison, according to a release.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Garner Community Christian Child Care (GC4) announced a $25,000 charitable gift from the Hancock County Foundation. Additionally, the foundation has committed to a second $25,000 gift in 2026, for a ...

Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at ...