Looking Back – Jan. 8

Talking at a reception and dinner at Otter Creek clubhouse east of Columbus are, from left, John J. Pruis, president of Ball State University; Alan C. Rankin, president of Indiana State University; Dr. Joseph Black of Seymour, a trustee of Indiana University; E. William Luzius of Columbus, a trustee of Indiana Vocational Technical College; and Rex Breeden of Columbus, a trustee of Indiana State University on Jan. 8, 1974.

From The Republic archives

2014

Northbound lanes of Interstate 65 between Taylorsville and Whiteland reopened after a 14-hour cleanup of four jackknifed semitrailers and rigs and repeated efforts to clear ice off the road.

1999

A former Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. bus driver faced five additional counts of child molesting for allegedly molesting a then-17-year-old boy while the student had been in the seventh grade.

1974

A major renovation program for Donner Center was endorsed in principle as the Columbus city council voted unanimously to permit the park board to begin negotiations with a consulting engineer.