ELKHART — Local state lawmakers are among dozens in Indiana who received campaign support from the leaders of two virtual charter schools accused of taking millions of dollars in state funding despite, in some cases, having no online course activity.

INDIANAPOLIS — A prominent supporter of Indiana’s attorney general is arguing that a proposed suspension of his law license over allegations of drunkenly groping four women is excessive and that even the proposed punishment wouldn’t force him from office.

This story was updated to include names of candidates in some races mistakenly omitted because they filed with the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office in Indianapolis and were not yet recorded in the Elkhart County clerk's office. 

INDIANAPOLIS — Democrat Josh Owens has dropped out of the race to be Indiana’s next governor, despite getting enough signatures to qualify, his campaign said on Wednesday.

GOSHEN — Mike Yoder has announced his bid for reelection as an Elkhart County commissioner.

INDIANAPOLIS — U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, a Republican, has filed for reelection to continue representing Indiana’s 2nd District in Congress.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb isn’t yet throwing his support behind a top official of his administration in challenging the state attorney general who is awaiting the outcome from an investigation into allegations of drunkenly groping four women.

ELKHART — Mayor Rod Roberson, who took office on Jan. 1, continues to make appointments for his new administration.

BRISTOL — Jeff Petermann, a Bristol businessman and former chair of the political action committee that opposed the last Elkhart Community Schools referendum, has announced his candidacy for Elkhart County Council.

ELKHART — County Commissioner Suzie Weirick announced she has filed for reelection in the 3rd District, seeking her second term in that office. 

GOSHEN — Joe Lehman, running on a theme of “restoring accountability,” has announced he is running for state representative in the 49th District. 

GOSHEN — Three new Goshen Common Council members and four returning ones were sworn in during the first meeting of the year Tuesday.

ELKHART — Mayor Tim Neese is wearing jeans and an untucked shirt. It’s an unusual look for him, at least when he is in his corner office at Elkhart City Hall. But then again, that office doesn’t look itself either.

ELKHART — After taking the oath of office himself Saturday, new Elkhart Mayor Rod Roberson conducted a swearing in ceremony for the city’s other elected officials.

ELKHART — Former Elkhart City Councilman Adam Bujalski announced he is running for Elkhart County Council this year.

ELKHART —  History was made in the city with a heart on Saturday as Elkhart’s first black mayor took the oath of office.

ELKHART — Judge Charles Carter Wicks has announced his intention to seek a third term as judge of Elkhart Superior Court 5.

ELKHART — A local leader has been awarded for his election service this year.

ELKHART — Three of Elkhart's nine City Council members have said their goodbyes as elected officials 

ELKHART — Eric Kinsman announced his candidacy for judge of Elkhart Superior Court 5 during an event Sunday at Beacon Health and Aquatics Center.

GOSHEN — Matt Schrock will be sworn in to the Goshen Common Council after his win was confirmed by a vote recount Thursday.

ELKHART — Mayor-elect Rod Roberson announced on Tuesday that his transition team is moving forward with hiring department leaders and making board and key-staff appointments. 

GOSHEN — A recount will be held in a Goshen Common Council race that was decided by only two votes this month.

GOSHEN — The county’s new hybrid voting machines may be put to the test for the first time after a hand recount was requested by a Goshen candidate who narrowly lost her race.

GOSHEN — A Republican candidate’s lead in his Goshen council race increased from one vote to two when provisional ballots were counted Friday, a result that his Democratic challenger says she will appeal.

GOSHEN — Elkhart County Election Board members are questioning whether a nursing home broke the law when it refused to let poll workers witness a resident voting in the election.

GOSHEN — The Elkhart County Election Board will meet Thursday to consider the 86 provisional ballots that were cast Nov. 5 during the municipal general election.

ELKHART — Mayor-elect Rod Roberson is already thinking ahead to Jan. 1. And what does he think about?

GOSHEN — Provisional ballots could change the outcome of close races in Elkhart and Goshen, the county’s top election official said Wednesday, but those results may not be known for days.  

ELKHART — Republicans lost their 7-2 majority on the Elkhart City Council in Tuesday's municipal election, which some said was a sort of referendum on this council's Tolson Center decisions.

ELKHART — Only a little over a quarter of registered voters took part in the Tuesday municipal election in Elkhart County, not an impressive turnout but higher than the 21 percent of registered voters who participated in the 2015 contest. 

In Bristol, Democrat Cathy Antonelli defeated Republican Bonnie Frye for the position of clerk-treasurer, which is being vacated by 46-year town employee Mary Ryman.

ELKHART — Democrat Rod Roberson will become Elkhart's next mayor on Jan. 1 after defeating former Republican Mayor Dave Miller in a milestone election.

GOSHEN — Adam Scharf won the clerk-treasurer race in Goshen with 54 percent of the votes Tuesday.

ELKHART — Members of the Elkhart City Council on Monday evening tabled a vote to appropriate $350,000 for making the former Alick's property ready for construction.

GOSHEN — As early voting concluded Monday, 3,005 people in Elkhart County’s cities and towns had already cast their ballots. 

ELKHART — Municipal election campaigns are in high gear as Tuesday’s election draws closer. 

The Interurban Trolley, serving the City of Elkhart and the City of Goshen, will provide free public transit rides on Election Day to help residents reach several polling sites Tuesday.

MILLERSBURG — To forge what he sees as a middle path in politics, the Rev. Jimmy Clifton reached back over 150 years to a short-lived anti-slavery party that counted among its members prominent poets, educators and congressmen.

ELKHART — Six candidates are competing for the three at-large seats on the Elkhart City Council.