WITZ NEWS
KIMBALL PROMOTIONS
March 08, 2010 - KIMBALL INTERNATIONAL INC ANNOUNCES THE PROMOTIONS OF FOUR KEY LEADERS WITHIN THE COMPANYS FURNITURE GROUPD OF BRANDED COMPANIES. DON VAN WINKLE HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO PRESIDENT OF OFFICE FURNITURE GROUP, AND VICE PRESIDENT OF KIMBALL INTERNATIONAL INC, RESPONSIBLE FOR NATIONAL OFFICE FURNITURE, KIMBALL OFFICE AND THE FURNITURE GROUP SHARED SERVICES. KEVIN MCCOY WHO HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL MANAGER, NATIONAL OFFICE FURNITURE. MCCOY PREVIOUSLY WAS VICE PRESIDENT, SALES FOR NATIONAL. KOURTNEY SMITH WHO HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING FOR NATIONAL OFFICE FURNITURE BRAND, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MARKETING ORGANIZATION AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF NATIONAL BRAND GOALS. STAN SAPP WHO HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO PRESIDNET, KIMBALL HOSPITALITY, AND VICE PRESIDENT, KIMBALL INTERNATIONAL INC. HE PREVIOUSLY WAS VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL MANAGER, KIMBALL HOSPITALITY.
FIRE
March 08, 2010 - DUBOIS VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS WERE CALLED TO A PAIR OF BRUSH FIRES THIS WEEKEND. AT 6:30PM SATURDAY, THEY WERE CALLED TO THE ARTHUR MCBRIDE RESIDENCE LOCATED AT 10574E 625 N. ACCORDING TO ZACH EICHMILLER WITH DUBOIS FIRE DEPARTMENT, MCARTHUR HAD SMOTHERED BRUSH AND LEFT IT UNATTTENDED. WHEN HE RETURNED IT HAD BURNED APPROXIMATELY ONE ACRE. THERE WERE TWO TRUCKS AND 14 MEN ON THE SCENE FOR APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR. DUBOIS FIREFIGHTERS WERE THEN CALLED TO THE CHRIS GLASS RESIDENCE AT 6PM SUNDAY LOCATED AT 9833N HILLHAM ROAD NW. INVESTIGATION REVEALED, GLASS HAD BEEN BURNING BRUSH WHEN GOT OUT OF CONTROL. THE FIRE BURNED APPROXIMATELY HALF AN ACRE. THERE WERE THREE TRUCKS AND 21 MEN ON THE SCENE FOR ABOUT 15 MINTUES.
VARIOUS CHARGES
March 08, 2010 - WASHINGTON CITY POLICE ARRESTED 46-YEAR-OLD GREGORY TINCHER OF WASHINGTON ON VARIOUS CHARGES SATURDAY. TINCHER WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF SCHEDULE THREE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, POSSESSION OF SCHEDULE TWO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, POSSESSION OF A HANDGUN WITHOUT A LICENSE, FALSE INFORMING, POSSESSION OF TWO OR MORE PRECURSORS WITH INTENT TO MANUFACTURE WHILE POSSESSING A FIREARM, DUMPING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WASTE, AND MAINTAINING A COMMON NUISANCE. TINCHER WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH DAVIESS COUNTY WARRANT OF FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR POSSESSING A SWITCHBLADE KNIFE AND ALSO A MARTIN COUNTY WARRANT. TINCHER WAS LODGED IN THE DAVIESS COUNTY JAIL.
OWI
March 08, 2010 - JASPER POLICE ARRESTED 23-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA L. WANINGER OF
EVANSTON, INDIANA, AT 3:05 THIS (SUN) MORNING AT THE 1900 BLOCK OF
NEWTON STREET FOR OPERATING WHILE INTOXICATED. HE WAS STOPPED
FOR DRIVING LEFT OF CENTER AND NEARLY STRIKING A CURB. HE WAS
LODGED IN THE DUBOIS COUNTY SECURITY CENTER. HE TESTED . 17%.
THEFT
March 08, 2010 - JASPER POLICE RECEIVED A CALL SATURDAY AT 12:30 PM FROM RURAL KING ADVISING OF A MALE SUBJECT THAT HAD TAKEN SEVERAL ITEMS WITHOUT PAYING FOR THEM. EMPLOYEES ATTEMPTED TO DETAIN 43-YEAR-OLD ROBERT E. TAYLOR OF LOOGOOTEE BUT HE ESCAPED ON FOOT. OFFICERS LOCATED TAYLOR TRAVELING ON THE RAILROAD TRACKS AT 12TH AVENUE . HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY 35-YEAR-OLD SHELIA TAYLOR. UPON FURTHER INVESTIGATION, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT SHELIA J. TALOR HAD SEVERAL ITEMS THAT WERE STOLEN FROM RURAL KING IN HER POSESSION. ROBERT TAYLOR WAS ALSO IN POSSESSION OF ITEMS STOLEN FROM RURAL KING. BOTH SUBJECTS WERE LODGED IN THE DUBOIS COUNTY SECURITY CENTER.