Stickup at 7-Eleven
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ELKHART — Police were investigating a shooting Friday that left an adult and two juveniles with injuries.
GOSHEN — Two Goshen men have been sentenced on child solicitation charges that arose from amateur sting operations.
Food Mart robbed at gunpoint
Gun found in student vehicle
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GOSHEN — Jurors were not convinced by Christian Maradiaga’s claims that a 4-year-old who died in his care last year slipped in the shower and hit his head.
GOSHEN — Despite his begging, Karen Duran told her 4-year-old son she had to go to work the night he was found bruised and unconscious.
Pickup truck strikes boy
GOSHEN — An Elkhart man is on trial this week for allegedly beating a toddler and leaving him braindead.
ELKHART — Six people were arrested after police executed a search warrant on Middlebury Street as part of a narcotics investigation.
GOSHEN — An Elkhart man accused of killing a toddler is headed to trial.
GOSHEN — An Elkhart man accused of threatening a gas station clerk’s life during an attempted robbery says it was a bid to get into a treatment program.
Pedestrian hit by pickup
GOSHEN — An Elkhart teenager was in court Thursday to face a charge of killing another teen last year.
GOSHEN — An Elkhart man received a total sentence of 75 years after he was convicted of killing a man during a robbery.
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SOUTH BEND — One of two Elkhart Police officers accused of beating a restrained prisoner will not go on trial until next year after he expressed fears of guilt by association.
GOSHEN — A man who allegedly put a police dog in a headlock is now charged with battering corrections officers multiple times.
ELKHART — A second Elkhart County man has been charged with helping dispose of a body following an April 2021 murder.
ELKHART — Two men have been charged in connection with fatal accidents that were weeks apart this spring.
Shooting under investigation
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SOUTH BEND — A former Elkhart Police officer has been convicted of three counts of wire fraud related to a gas station investment scheme.
Jail inmate faces new charges
GOSHEN — A Goshen man is accused of bursting into a woman’s motel room and dropping his pants.
ELKHART — A Bristol man has admitted his role in stabbing a boy’s emotional support dog to death.
12-year-olds arrested
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HAMMOND — A former Elkhart police officer has pleaded guilty to beating a prisoner who was handcuffed to a chair.
Crash results in injury, arrest
Man flees store robbery
ELKHART — Police were investigating a fatal shooting Sunday night in the 2000 block of Vermont Street.
GOSHEN — Police say they found an Elkhart man with a child and more than 850 oxycodone pills when they searched his apartment.
GOSHEN — The third suspect in a robbery that left a man in a Dumpster in 2020 has pleaded guilty.
GOSHEN — An Elkhart man has admitted to robbing a couple of their phone at gunpoint while two children were in the vehicle with them.
Man swindled in gift-card scam
16-year-olds arrested
ELKHART — Police were investigating the deaths of two people found shot to death in a home on the north side Sunday.
ELKHART — An Elkhart man is accused of engaging in a sexual act with a minor after giving her gifts.
ELKHART — As an accused serial arsonist awaits a finding on his sanity, a victim of the barn fires that swept three counties last year expressed fears that he could escape justice.
ELKHART — Elkhart County Prosecuting Attorney Vicki Elaine Becker has announced plans for the 12th Criminal Justice Citizens Academy.
The Elkhart Police Department is asking for the public's help in identifying a man who is wanted for questioning in an Aug. 13 theft at a local business. Anyone with information can contact Detective Susan Lambright at 574-389-4736 or Michiana Crime Stoppers at 574-288-STOP. You can also ema…
GOSHEN — Darnell Hunter was warned Thursday that Elkhart is a lot different now from what he might remember, before he was sentenced for murder 21 years ago.
GOSHEN — An Elkhart man has been arrested in connection with a 2019 shooting that left a cashier severely injured.
No injuries in apartment fire
ELKHART — Police were investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy at McNaughton Park on Tuesday.
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ELKHART — An armed standoff ended with the arrest of a man on preliminary charges of armed rape and armed burglary and on several outstanding warrants, including one involving a homicide in a neighboring county.
Update: The man has been identified, police said.
Woman injured in hit-and-run
ELKHART — Police say a man arrested for armed robbery at a drugstore Wednesday used a gun-shaped piece of metal to threaten the cashier.
GOSHEN — An Elkhart man has been convicted of shooting another man to death in a 2021 robbery attempt.
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GOSHEN — Tina Singh said she knows her dad would have wanted her to forgive his killer, a woman who set a house fire that also killed a young boy in 2021.
ELKHART — A suspect in the armed robbery of a CVS drug store was apprehended less than 30 minutes later Wednesday inside a Walmart.
GOSHEN — Jurors on Wednesday watched video footage of the attack on Forrest Howard that ended his life 14 months ago.
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