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WARSAW -- A gun-related competitive sporting event drew more than 300 competitors to Warsaw this weekend. Competitors from around Indiana and the country were on-hand for a prestigious firearms match Sunday. It was part of the 2011 United States Practical Shooting Association's Indiana Championship. To make the grade, you had to be on the move. “As you go through the positions, you're moving, shooting and reloading as you go through,” said Jake Martens of USPSA.” [You're]

Formal introductions won’t be necessary when Warsaw and Indianapolis North Central get together Saturday night at Conseco Fieldhouse. Although they haven’t officially met since the 1997-98 campaign (an 86-69 North Central win), the two schools did face off at a team camp last June at Purdue University with North Central coming out on top again. High school’s top prize is on the line when No. 6 Warsaw (23-2) meets North Central (24-3) for the Class 4-A state basketball championship around 8:30 p.m. Making it back to Indianapolis for the first time since 1996 has been no walk in the park for Warsaw.

WARSAW - Warsaw's dream season fell a game short of the Class 4A state championship game after a 47-44 loss to Fort Wayne South in the girls basketball semistate Saturday. Warsaw led, 17-12, after one quarter and 29-22 at halftime before South (24-3) went on a 14-7 spurt in the third quarter to pull even, 36-36, after three. In that third quarter, South forced 10 Warsaw turnovers. The score seesawed in the final minutes. South took the lead for good (43-42) on a DeJoyah Johnson basket with 2:30 left before Lakyn Gulley hit two free throws with 15.1 seconds remaining for a 45-42 advantage.

A Warsaw man is in the hospital after being hit by a train. Police received a call from Norfolk Southern just before 11 Tuesday night that they thought they hit a person. Officers went to search the area and found 25-year-old Adam Driscoll with a head injury. He was airlifted to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne where he was listed as stable. Police are investigating. They think alcohol may be a factor.

WARSAW - A Warsaw man has been arrested and charged with murder, accused of strangling his roommate. Kosciusko County police were called to the Hide-Away Hills Mobile Home Park on W. County Road 250 South, lot #34, around 12:45 p.m. Sunday to perform a welfare check. Hide-Away Hills is just southwest of Warsaw. That's when they found Lionel King, 51, dead. Investigators say King appeared to have been strangled by a cord. Deputies took King's roommate, Robert Hurley, 54, to the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department to question him. Investigators say they learned Hurley told family about his involvement in the strangling earlier in the day. Family members immediately contacted the sheriff's department, and police then checked on King.

 Warsaw police officer has resigned after allegations he was having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old high school student. The Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety accepted Patrol Officer Timothy Whitright's resignation Wednesday night. WSBT Reporter Colleen Ferreira, who was at that meeting, sent us a photo of a document detailing the police chief's charges against Whitright: Click here to see it . Whitright is accused of sending the girl inappropriate texts and kissing her on the lips while on duty.

WARSAW — A man is in critical condition after crashing his truck into a NIPSCO utility pole on State Road 15 Thursday night. 42-year-old Jose Ruben Espino of Warsaw had been driving northbound on Detroit Street in the southbound lane then swerved back to the east side of the roadway. Espino struck the curb on the east side of Detroit Street then slid back across the center of the roadway, hitting the utility pole. Espino had to be extricated from his vehicle. Medical responders were going to airlift Espino but it was later decided he was not in critical condition and was taken to Kosciusko Community Hospital in serious but stable condition.

WARSAW - As much as eight inches of snow piled up on the ground in Warsaw and closed schools because it made traveling extremely dangerous. All the downed trees and low hanging power lines were the biggest problem. There are a lot of reports coming into the Kosciusko County Highway Department about trees and lines that are down but they do not have to go too far to see all the problems the heavy snow caused. In the highway department parking lot, power lines sit on top of some of the workers trucks after a semi-truck driver snapped lines and a utility pole trying to clear low hanging lines.

A 25-year-old Warsaw man died early Saturday morning after his van was "impaled [by] a tree" accoring to police on C.R. 450 West, south of S.R. 25. Investigators from Kosciusko County's Fatal Alcohol Crash Team determined Justin Ellis was driving south on C.R. 450 West just before 2 a.m. when, for an unknown reason, he drove off the road and crashed his 1992 GMC van into the tree. County Coroner Michael Wilson said Ellis died of blunt force trauma. The crash remains under investigation.

Two teenagers are facing charges after a stabbing at a party in Warsaw. Police say 18-year-old Latasha Ibarra had been fighting with her boyfriend, 19-year-old Miguel Anjel Peredia. The two were at a party in the 1900 block of Ironwood Road just after 1 Wednesday morning. A fight broke out after 18-year-old Chance Cochran confronted the couple. Ibarra chased Cochran down the hallway threatening to stab him. Cochran eventually fell and she allegedly stabbed him in the leg. Cochran has since been treated and released from the hospital.

PIERCETON, Ind. - Kosciusko County police say a Warsaw man is dead after he crashed his moped and was run over by an SUV. Shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday, sheriff's deputies and medics were called to the 5000 block of Pierceton Road, just west of Pierceton. There, they found Brandon Hollon, 23, of Warsaw in the road with serious injuries. Fatal crash investigators say Hollon was heading west when he suddenly lost control of his moped and crashed. There's no word what caused him to lose control.

CLAYPOOL - A Warsaw man was badly hurt when his moped hit a dog just north of the Kosciusko County town of Claypool. It happened on County Road 50 West shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday. County police found Robert Hawley, 84, in the road being attended by family members. When medics arrived, they immediately called for a medical helicopter due to head injuries Hawley suffered during the crash. Investigators say Hawley was traveling north on C.R. 50 West, driving his 1964 red Allstate 788 moped/scooter when a German shepherd ran in the road.

Police say a Warsaw man was arrested Thursday for beating a 2-year-old so severely that he's being treated at Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis for a fractured skull and other injuries. Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department detectives and officials with the Indiana Department of Child Services were called to the emergency room at Kosciusko Community Hospital just after noon. The 2-year-old had been admitted by his mother. Police say he had obvious injuries to his head and groin along with multiple bruises.

Kosciusko County police say two suspected methamphetamine manufacturers led officers on a 100 mph pursuit on Tuesday, throwing meth materials out of their car windows as they ran. Just before 8:30 p.m. Warsaw Narcotics and Kosciusko County Drug Taskforce officers went to a mobile home park on County Road 100 South about 4 miles west of Warsaw to serve warrants. Police say two men in a green Pontiac drove up but then quickly drove off when they spotted the officers. The suspects were throwing materials used in the manufacture of meth out of their windows as they sped away, according to police.

MILFORD - One person is dead and another was badly hurt after a pickup truck crashed into a tree in northern Kosciusko County. Police and medics were called to State Road 15, just south of County Road 900 North, shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday. The area is just south of Milford and north of Warsaw. Officers arrived and found a 2003 Dodge Ram pickup into a tree, crushing the entire front portion of the truck. Police say the driver, Jason Watson, 37, of Warsaw died on the scene.

WARSAW - Firefighters from 5 departments were busy early Sunday battling a big blaze at a Warsaw strip mall. Around 3:50 a.m., emergency crews were called to Cigarettes Plus at 876 N. Lake St. The business was fully engulfed, forcing Warsaw fire to call for help from Winona Lake, Claypool, Leesburg and Atwood fire departments. Cigarettes Plus was destroyed, while the fire also heavily damaged Avila's Grocery and Hayden's Laundry Center. Cigarettes Plus and Avila's had the most fire damage.

Kosciusko County police say a 19-year-old Warsaw man was arrested Tuesday morning for felony Dealing in a Lookalike Substance after trying to sell fake morphine to an undercover officer. After an investigation, police set up an undercover sting just after 10 this morning. Shawn Douglas Elder was then taken into custody, police say, after selling them a drug that he falsely claimed was morphine.  “Indiana law stipulates that the intent to sell a substance under the disguise as an illegal drug is a criminal offense,” according to a release issued Tuesday afternoon.

WARSAW - Police have arrested a Warsaw man for having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. On Monday, Warsaw police were called to the Super 8 motel on Frontage Rd. after the grandfather of the teenager walked in on a sexual encounter between his granddaughter and a 33-year-old family friend. The 33-year-old is identified as Christopher Allen, Jr. Officers interviewed the teen and found that on several occasions within the past month, Allen and the teen had sexual intercourse at various hotels and other locations in and around Warsaw.

Police say a 21-year-old Warsaw man severely injured in January when he jumped out of a pickup during an argument with his father has died. Police say Jerry Lee Charles Belcher and his father, Johnny L. Belcher, 41, were heading to work together on the morning of January 18. Kosciusko County police say they got into an intense argument while traveling down County Road 800 West just south of County Road 850 North and Jerry opened his door and...

WARSAW - Warsaw police are investigating a meth lab explosion that occurred in a room at the Days Inn but say they are no longer looking for a man they thought was hurt or may have been involved. Police say the blast at the motel at 2575 E. Center Street just before 6 p.m. Saturday was so forceful it blew a door off and damaged an adjoining room. When they got to the scene, smoke was coming from a second story room. Firefighters and medics found a fire in the bathroom of room 218 as a result of the explosion.