Rocky Ford Road, from Middle Road to Candlelight Village, closed Wednesday, part of Thursday

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• JNET recover handgun and pound of meth during traffic stop, North Vernon man arrested

  COLUMBUS, Ind. -The Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team (JNET) seized a pound of methamphetamine and a loaded handgun following a traffic stop on Monday, July 13.

• Edinburgh, German Township Fire crews respond to semi fire on I-65

  EDINBURGH, Ind. - The German Township Fire Department, Edinburgh Fire and Rescue, and other local fire agencies were dispatched to the northbound lanes of I-65 at the 79-mile marker for a large semi fire in the early morning hours of Tuesday, July 14. 

• Air Quality Alert for South-Central Indiana until late Wednesday

  SOUTH-CENTRAL, Ind.-The Indiana Department of Environmental Management have declared an Air Quality Action Day, in effect until midnight Wednesday night, July 15.

• Hotter temperatures expected this week

  SOUTH-CENTRAL, Ind. - After a brief period of comfortable summer temperatures, the National Weather Service (NWS) says hot weather is returning to south-central Indiana this week.

• Bartholomew County Cooling Stations open to beat the heat

  COLUMBUS, Ind. - Bartholomew County Emergency Management (BCEM) says hotter weather is back for Columbus and the surrounding area through the weekend.