Rex Roy Spencer, 61, of rural Columbia City, died at 12:45 p.m. Friday, July 29, 2016, at Parkview Regional Medical, Fort Wayne, where he was admitted Monday. He had been battling cancer. He was born August 2, 1954, in Marion, a son of the late Emmett and Florence L. (Wright) Spencer. He graduated from Mississinewa …read more.

A woman with an extensive history of drug abuse and addiction was sentenced today to one year in the Kosciusko County Jail. Crystal Shafer, 38, 3876 N. SR 15, Warsaw, was arrested in April on a charge of possession of a legend drug. In a plea agreement, she agreed to a lesser charge of possession of …read more.

James Douglas Cable, 40, currently of North Webster, failed to get the judge’s sympathies by asking for probation in Kosciusko Circuit Court this morning. Cable was one of four people arrested in April at 411 N. Parker St., Warsaw, for manufacturing methamphetamine. With a plea agreement, however, Cable’s crime was reduced to a class D felony …read more.