2022 Elkhart County Primary Election
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ELKHART — The Elkhart County Board of Health made a plea on Friday urging residents to resume wearing face masks and to get vaccinated to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
ELKHART — Three Elkhart men are suspected of robbing a group of people at a party while armed with a rifle.
ELKHART — State lawmakers took questions Friday on a bill that would restrict how schools can teach race-related issues.
ELKHART — City officials and residents will gather Saturday at the Tolson Center for a third and final community summit.
GOSHEN — Relatives of a 26-year-old who was shot outside a Goshen apartment in 2020 are dissatisfied with the six-year sentence given to his killer.
GOSHEN — A Middlebury man accused of killing a 19-year-old in Elkhart could face decades more in prison on a sentence enhancement filed Thursday.
2022 Elkhart County Primary Election
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ELKHART — For the past year, Adrian Riley says, his goal has been to improve police-community relations by having one-on-one conversations.
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ELKHART — Long lines could be spotted outside Elkhart Fire Station 3 on Wednesday as residents took advantage of free vaccines and testing for COVID-19.
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GOSHEN — Elected officials fear losing a chunk of the funds that support police and fire services if state leaders succeed in axing business taxes.
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GOSHEN — The global health coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee has been named to the Elkhart County Board of Health.
ELKHART — An Elkhart man has received a 4½-year sentence after he admitted to pocketing $921,000 from an employer who considered him family.
GOSHEN — Enrollment is open for emergency medical technician (EMT) classes offered by the Goshen Health Education Department.
ELKHART — The Indiana Department of Health’s Strike Team will host a free COVID-19 testing and vaccine clinic from noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.
ELKHART — The Northern Indiana Hispanic Health Coalition (NIHHC), in partnership with the Indiana State Department of Health, Real Services and Radio La Raza WKAM-1460, will hold its next COVID-19 vaccine and testing clinic from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Concord Event Center, 3719 S.…
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ELKHART — Community members of all ages came out to march Monday morning as part of Elkhart Black Expo’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.
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ELKHART — Over a dozen “minigrants” have been awarded since the launch of a data tracking tool for child welfare.
ELKHART — Tessa Barnes Robinson can remember the day her grandparents sat the children down and told them they were being forced out of their Elkhart home.
GRANGER — Food supplies to support over 6,400 families this year will be going to 13 local food pantries, three homeless shelters and 14 neighborhoods across Mishawaka, South Bend, Elkhart, Goshen, Nappanee, New Carlisle, Niles, Buchanan, Cassopolis and Edwardsburg, organizers with Granger C…
ELKHART — The Elkhart County branch of NAACP celebrated the life of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, with local leaders urging the community to keep pushing the slain civil rights activist’s dreams forward.
HOWE — A single-vehicle crash Saturday on the Indiana Toll Road claimed the life of a Sturgis, Michigan, man.
ELKHART — An Elkhart man claimed a religious exemption when state troopers arrested him on drug and neglect charges.
GOSHEN — A Middlebury man has been sentenced on an admission of child molesting, which first came to light after he confessed to his pastor.
MISHAWAKA — An Elkhart man led officers on a chase Friday before crashing with a child in the vehicle, police say.
GOSHEN — A man attempting to direct the backing of a truck at a church food pantry Friday was hit by the truck and killed.
ELKHART — A 19-year-old Elkhart man was arrested on his mother’s porch after allegedly swiping at a police officer with a knife.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Community Schools is requiring parental consent to allow students access to library books that may contain illicit material.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Senate will not consider contentious Republican-backed legislation that supporters say would have increased parental control over what their kids learn but that teachers and other critics say would have amounted to censorship, a top lawmaker said Friday.
ELKHART — In celebration of its 50th Year Anniversary, the Elkhart Chapter of Indiana Black Expo will host its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Monday.
GOSHEN — A Nappanee man is on track to stand trial Feb. 7 for allegedly killing one man and wounding another in a 2020 shooting.
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ELKHART — As COVID-19 case numbers continue to increase in Elkhart County, public health officials were advising the community to brace for more illnesses and deaths, and urged residents to take simple precautions, such as wearing masks in public, to protect themselves and those around them.
GOSHEN — Two men were sentenced Thursday for their role in a fatal robbery that prosecutors described as “senseless.”
ELKHART— Changes are coming to a part of downtown’s North Main Street and city officials got the ball rolling by seeking ideas from the public.
ELKHART — A Powerball ticket sold in Elkhart matched all five numbers and is worth $2 million.
ELKHART — Fire damaged two vehicles and a bass boat parked under an aluminum carport attached to a manufactured home Wednesday on the city’s northeast side.
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ELKHART — Beacon Health System and Ivy Tech Community College are collaborating on a new program to help ease a shortage of nurses in the area.
ELKHART — The Elkhart County NAACP is hosting a Martin Luther King Jr. event at 3 p.m. Monday at St. James AME Church, 122 Dr. King Drive.
NAPPANEE — A Nappanee man is charged with multiple counts of possessing child pornography.
ELKHART — An Elkhart man is accused of pointing a sawed-off rifle at a woman and threatening to kill her.
MILLERSBURG — A crash Wednesday morning flipped a trailer on top of a LaGrange man, breaking both of his legs.
DOWAGIAC, Mich. — Police have identified two women who died early Friday when their vehicle, stuck in a driveway during a heavy snowfall, filled with carbon monoxide and later caught fire.
GOSHEN — The city’s redevelopment board approved gap financing for a 60-unit apartment complex after considering the need for housing in Goshen.
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WAKARUSA — Wakarusa, one of the latest communities to update its master plan, hopes to build an outdoor event space and create more social events in the years ahead.
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BRISTOL — Homeowners who live along the St. Joseph River are dealing with flooding issues as ice jams are causing water to spill over seawalls and into their yards.
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ELKHART — Officials planning a utility and streetscape improvement project for North Main Street from Jackson Boulevard to Pottawattomi Drive are asking for input from business owners and the general community.
GOSHEN — The Humane Society of Elkhart County has increased its contract price with the county for the first time in 15 years.
ELKHART — Officials on Monday held a groundbreaking ceremony for Phase 2 of the city’s wastewater treatment plant, formally kicking off construction for the $30 million project.
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GOSHEN — A plan to restart the ice rink project by considering a new location is proving unpopular with the downtown economic board.
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