WARSAW — A Michigan judge has dismissed several counts of fraud lodged against a Warsaw financial institution by a bankruptcy trustee tasked with recovering ill-gotten gains from a massive check-kiting scheme.

GOSHEN — An Elkhart woman is accused of stealing jewelry from a Hubbard Hill resident while working as a nursing assistant.

GOSHEN — A 65-year-old Elkhart man has been sentenced to 258 years in prison after being convicted on nine counts of child molesting, the Elkhart County Prosecutor’s Office said.

GOSHEN — Two men, one of them a Hebron school board member, face child solicitation charges following citizen sting operations.

GOSHEN — Two teens who were charged with murder in a shooting last year have been convicted of reckless homicide.

GOSHEN — A New Paris man is accused of threatening a conservation officer as part of a string of 300 angry texts and voicemails.

GOSHEN — Leonardo Chavarria sat in silence for a minute and a half while testifying at trial Friday, to show how long he and co-defendant Alejandro Briano waited for the victim.

GOSHEN — A man convicted in April of the unprovoked shooting of a 19-year-old received a total sentence Thursday of 73 years.

GOSHEN — Fabiola Abarca Sanchez insisted at trial Wednesday that Santino Garcia, her boyfriend who was murdered in April 2022, didn’t have a side that he kept from her.

GOSHEN — Two teenagers accused of fatally shooting a man last April were defending themselves against him, their attorneys say.

THREE RIVERS, Mich. — Robert Odell Waters has been charged with the Dec. 2, 1988, murder of Cathy Sue Swartz, investigators said Monday.

GOSHEN — Additional charges have been filed against a man accused of killing a bystander who intervened in an assault.

GOSHEN — One of three girls charged with escaping Bashor Children’s Home after assaulting an employee has pleaded guilty.

CLEVELAND — A judge has granted a six-month delay in the sentencing of a former Elkhart payroll company owner who admitted to running a multimillion-dollar check-kiting scheme.

GOSHEN — An Elkhart man has admitted that he had meth in his possession during a SWAT raid in the fall.

GOSHEN — A pair of teenagers accused of fatally shooting a man a year ago are set for trial in about two weeks.

GOSHEN — An Elkhart man received a 50-year sentence after he confessed to committing a string of armed robberies in 2021.

INDIANAPOLIS — Appellate justices have affirmed the sentence given to a Fort Wayne man who was convicted in a non-fatal shooting.

GOSHEN — Darius Thomas was quickly convicted of killing a 19-year-old Elkhart man in a shooting prosecutors called “cold” and “brutal.”

GOSHEN — A judge did not allow a man accused in a 2021 murder to tell a jury that he acted out of fear from witnessing a drive-by shooting months earlier.

GOSHEN — Shamar Barnes’s mother told jurors Tuesday about the moment she learned her son had been killed in February 2021.

GOSHEN — A fatal shooting in the middle of the afternoon in Elkhart two years ago was cold, callous and senseless, prosecutors said as the alleged killer headed to trial.

GOSHEN — A Middlebury man accused in a 2021 shooting is set to stand trial on April 3.

GOSHEN — An Elkhart man who was convicted of killing a man then burning his body received a 95-year sentence.

HAMMOND — The second Elkhart officer who was accused of beating a handcuffed suspect in 2018 has pleaded guilty.

GOSHEN — Three men accused of threatening people with a rifle during an August 2021 robbery have pleaded guilty.

GOSHEN — An Elkhart man has been convicted on nine counts of child molesting.

GOSHEN — An Elkhart man has admitted to a robbery spree that left four victims, one of whom was hospitalized with a head injury.

SOUTH BEND — An Elkhart man was sentenced after pleading guilty to making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson announced Tuesday.

GOSHEN — An Elkhart man has received six years of prison time after admitting to his involvement in a hotel shooting.

GOSHEN — A judge has ruled that two men accused of killing a 15-year-old in 2021 will be tried jointly.

GOSHEN — Bonnie Conley can still feel the last hug her grandson gave her just weeks before he was stabbed 40 times by a friend, she told a judge Thursday.

GOSHEN — A former church volunteer who admitted to molesting boys in his care will not spend half of his 20-year prison term on house arrest, a judge ruled Thursday.

INDIANAPOLIS — A mentally ill man who shot and killed a Goshen patrolman will continue to serve a life sentence after a decision by the Indiana Court of Appeals.

GOSHEN — An Elkhart man who was convicted of fatally shooting his friend has been given an 83-year sentence.

GOSHEN — Jurors returned a guilty verdict Thursday night against an Elkhart man charged with murder after hearing him testify.

GOSHEN — A woman who says she gave a ride home to an alleged killer after he burned his victim’s body in an abandoned car testified Tuesday.

INDIANAPOLIS — Appellate judges have reversed an Elkhart County teenager’s conviction for child molesting because of issues with his accuser’s recorded testimony.

GOSHEN — Jurors must decide whether they believe an Elkhart man is guilty of shooting a man and burning his body three years ago, or if a woman who was with him at the time could have pulled the trigger.

ELKHART — An elementary school food service manager who admitted to stealing $7,000 from student accounts is now the subject of recovery efforts by the attorney general’s office.

GOSHEN — An Elkhart man accused of killing one teen and injuring another in a hit-and-run has received an August trial date.

GOSHEN — An Elkhart man convicted in a string of armed robberies taunted his victims and put them in extreme fear, a judge said before giving him a 58-year sentence.

GOSHEN — A man charged in a fatal shooting Saturday appeared in court for the first time.

WARSAW — Officers with Lake City Bank say they’re frustrated by allegations that they enabled a years-long financial fraud scheme.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Najeeb Khan couldn’t have carried out a massive check-kiting scheme without cooperation from officers at Lake City Bank, a bankruptcy trustee alleges in court filings.

GOSHEN — Wanda Bontrager told her husband’s killer that she can’t hate him, despite what he took from her family.

GOSHEN — Loved ones of a Bristol man who was killed in a 2020 robbery say they’re disappointed to see one of the three men responsible receive no prison time.

SOUTH BEND — An Elkhart man has been sentenced 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.