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Brunner
elected as
city council
president

Woman struck by truck dies

Area along Kem
Road congested
with traffic,
pedestrians

lives with her mother and

was struck by a 2000 model
Dodge Ram driven by Scott
T. Pauley, 45 around 5:40
a.m. Neeley was pronounced
dead at 6:01 a.m. at Marion
General Hospital after resuscitation efforts were exhausted by ambulance personnel.
Butche said Neeleys death
was deemed accidental due
to blunt force trauma to her
body.
Deputy Chief Stephen
Dorsey of the Marion Police
Department said that Pauley
was also driving the same
route he took to work each
day.

BY ALICIA KELLY
akelly@chronicle-tribune.com

A woman died early Tuesday while walking the same

route she took daily to Circle
K gas station on Kem Road.
Grant County Coroner said
Deborah E. Neeley, 55, was
walking south on Kem Road
from her residence at Northgate Apartments where she

The driver told us that he

takes the same route to work
on Kem Road each day and
stops at the Circle K at 1707
W. Kem Road, Dorsey said.
While traveling eastbound,
he crossed the intersection at
Lincolnshire Boulevard and
Kem Road. Pauley said he
took his eyes off the roadway
briefly to turn up the heat and
then heard a thud. He noticed
movement across the front
of his vehicle and immediately stopped. He realized he
struck a person and immediately called 911.
Dorsey said Pauley was
emotional about the situa-

tion.
He said that his windows
were not fogged or iced over
and he was traveling about 30
mph, he said. It was dark
outside and he didnt see anyone on the road prior to the
accident. He was emotional
and upset about what had
happened.
Pauley was taken to Marion
General Hospital to have a
blood sample taken. Dorsey
said there was nothing found
in his system and there were
no signs of impairment or the
smell of an alcoholic beverage.
Dorsey said that the area

Delks continues to teach youth

Luzadder elected
as vice president
tjuranovich@chrionicle-tribune.com

The
Marion
Common Council started off
2016 with greetings and
formalities that set the
groundwork for how the
council will function in
2016.
Jim Brunner, R-District
3, and Bradley Luzadder,
R-At Large, were both
elected unanimously to
serve as president and
vice president of the city
council, respectively.
Both are veteran council
members that will preside over a largely veteran city council. The two
will serve as president
and vice president for the

BY ALICIA KELLY
akelly@chronicle-tribune.com

An emaciated dog that

was picked up on Sunday by the owners of Picture Perfect Pet Center in
Marion is on the road to
recovery.
After a photo of the dog
surfaced on Facebook
through a local page on
Sunday afternoon, many
members of the community called the Marion Police Department to report
the matter. By Tuesday,
See DOG / Page A3

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CMos Training Academy,

LLC.
Delks instructs between
40 and 50 youth, both boys
and girls, of all ages. She
trains youth from elementary all the way up to college. She not only instructs
youth in Grant County, but
also has expanded out to the
surrounding counties.
Among the players Delks
helps is Oak Hill High
School freshman Kaela

A Marion man charged with

raping a woman and burglarizing her home plead guilty
on Monday before jury selection began for the trial.
Grant County Prosecuting
Attorney James
Luttrull Jr. said
Nytarion Ray
Callahan, 19,
plead
guilty
to 15 counts
including
12
counts of rape, Callahan
one count of
conspiracy to commit rape,
one count of burglary and one
count of robbery.
Callahans DNA was found
at the scene of the crime, as
well as fingerprints on a used
condom wrapper and a jar
that the suspects stole money
from.
Callahan faces up to 40 years
for the 12 counts of rape, with
having to serve 75 percent of
the sentence.
Two other suspects in the
crime during the summer of
2014, Jamar Greer and Larenz Jordan, both 17, were sentenced to 40 years in prison,
with 4 years suspended, for
twelve counts of rape during a

See YOUTH / Page A2

See CALLAHAN / Page A2

WORKING WITH YOUTH: Oak Hill graduate Courtney Delks works with youth basketball players during a clinic recently.
Delks gives both private lessons and helps organize youth basketball clinics.

Oak Hill grad helps with private lessons and clinics

BY MATT WILSON
mwilson@chronicle-tribune.com

Courtney Delks feels like

she is in the profession that
perfectly suits her.
The 2010 Indiana Miss
Basketball and Oak Hill
High School graduate had
tried coaching at the collegiate level at both Indiana
Wesleyan University and
Indiana University-Purdue
University
Indianapolis.
Delks, however, has decided
to get out of the coaching
ranks and now is giving pri-

vate lessons and coaching

clinics for youth of all ages.
Things have really been
going well, Delks said.
Delks said there are a couple of different aspects that
have drawn her to being in
the position she is now. For
one, she always has had a
passion of helping youth
both boys and girls improve their skills on the basketball court. But more importantly than that, she has
always had a passion to help
those young players grow as

Oak Hill traffic

affected by bridge
work expected to
last most of 2016
shutchins@chronicle-tribune.com

MIER Those who

travel to Oak Hill Junior
and senior high school frequently may have to take
a different route starting
today.
The Indiana Department

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people.
I try to teach the youth
basketball principles, but
at the same time I want to
help them grow up and help
them become followers of
Christ, Delks said. I really
like the aspect of mentoring
them.
Delks had done some oneon-one work and helped
with clinics during her playing days at Purdue University. She officially became a
certified trainer in October.
With that, Delks has started

Bridge closing to lead to detours

BY SETH HUTCHINS

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Nursing
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Callahan
pleads
guilty

BY ALICIA KELLY

Matt Wilson / mwilson@chronicle-tribune.com

Neglected
dog on road
to recovery

on Kem Road where Neeley

was struck is not well-lighted
at night. In 2013, 58-year-old
Sandra K. Crumrine died during surgery after being struck
by a vehicle in the same location on Kem Road.
We are looking into lighting in that area and other
things that may increase the
safety of the pedestrians who
walk from their residences,
he said. That area experiences a lot of pedestrian traffic and we are going to see if
there is anything the department can do to assist the pedestrians traveling back and
forth.

Last suspect in
rape of woman in
her home in 2014
avoids trial

BY TYLER JURANOVICH

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$1.00

Marions
ONLY
5 STAR
FACILITY

of Transportation says
the Ind.13/Ind.18 bridge
over the Kokomo Grain
Railroad tracks will close
Wednesday, weather permitting. The bridge, which
was built in 1935, is located near the schools and is
expected to remain closed
until late fall.
Nicole Thomas, spokesperson for the Indiana
Department of Transportation, says that the bridge is
being rebuilt due to rising
maintenance costs on the
structure.

Every bridge has a life

cycle and this one has
reached the end of it, she
said. The taxpayers will
be better served if we rebuild it now rather than
continue to maintain it.
The $1.4 million project
will include a complete
replacement of the current
eight-span bridge with a
new single-span bridge
over the railroad tracks.
Crews will also replace a
bridge deck between the
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