Boone County

He found his actual limit in Tennessee, somewhere past mile 186 at a red bench with candy on it, and learned he had more to give after that.

He is the most encouraging person in the Boone County running community he built from scratch because he believes everyone deserves a spot at the starting line.

It is never too late to rewrite your story.

He means it.

The impact on our water supply can be.

Somehow the administration found one of the driest places in Indiana to build a big data center in Boone County.

You can look that up on the hydrological maps.

It's just very dry there.

Do you have a response to that?

that?Yeah, I'm sh-I'm shocked by the answer, frankly.

Uh, the reality is that the state of Indiana bought acreage in Boone County for the first big data center and paid an average of seventy-five thousand to a hundred thousand dollars per acre for farmland that was worth fifteen thousand dollars an acre.

All right.

I mean, Indianapolis had a jewelry store robbery, and, you know, they made off with $2 million in jewelry.

The car made it out of Marion County, hit the flock cameras in Boone County, ISP, Boone County, Lebanon, Zionsville, all those agencies got in pursuit, stopped the vehicle, made, made arrests on all the occupants, and recovered the $2 million in jewelry, so.

All right.

Now, the misuse of the cameras, I, I totally support.

University officials are emphasizing that the safety of students is a top priority.

Boone County is considering removing its auditor after a data leak that exposed nearly 300 employee names and Social Security numbers.

Kara Kenney with Indiana's I-Team broke this story over the summer.

Now she has the latest from a public hearing yesterday.

Boone County commissioners and county council just heard hours of testimony about whether the county auditor should keep her job.

I think it's a poop show.

I think you guys are out to get her for no reason.

Dozens of Boone County residents and employees showed up for a public hearing Tuesday afternoon.

I just like really tried to soak up like the experience and just, I tried to run new, all these new roads in the county.

I learned so much about Boone County in this year training for Vol State.

Like my running will never be the same.

I really, this kind of format, like the journey running thing got under my skin.

We have hustle and the heartland eight hour coming up on October 10th and I'm bringing back the big four trail high five classic.

It's a four, eight and 12 mile.

possibility that i could stretch it out farther in distance that's to be determined eventually i'd like to make that a 50k or 100k maybe but i'll revisit that and uh coming soon i will be announcing a 24 hour so wow and are all those in indiana near lebanon where you live yeah all in boone county um all using uh lebanon parks and rec trails and parks

okay And Wes, you've got your own race now.

[rock music] Halfway between downtown Indianapolis and Purdue University, nestled in the countryside, is the city of Lebanon, Indiana.

Lebanon has that quintessential small-town feel, a place with a historic downtown, quiet residential neighborhoods, beautiful Boone County farmland, and more than 100 acres of public parks, all this according to Life In Indy.

For a city with a population of roughly 16,000, it's about as safe as any other city its size in the United States, and Lebanon was home to 64-year-old Donald Bowers.

Donnie, as he was known by most of his friends, lived in an old established residential neighborhood in the 500 block of Southwest Street on the southwest side of Lebanon with his dog, Peanut.

According to Justia Law in Indiana, a habitual offender finding attached to a murder conviction could add between 8 and 20 years to Cram's sentence if the state could prove the defendant had qualifying prior felony convictions.

But the murder case would never make it to trial.

It was scheduled for the fall of 2026, but a month before it was set to begin, on August 21, 2026, Cram appeared in Boone County Superior Court before Judge Matthew Kincaid and changed his plea to guilty.

According to the Boone County Prosecutor's Office, under the terms of the plea agreement, Jacob Cram pled guilty to Donald Bauer's murder, and in exchange, the state agreed to dismiss the habitual offender enhancement.