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Saint Mary’s College welcomed more than 480 first-year students and about 20 transfers Thursday, making this year’s incoming class the largest since the 1980s.
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South Bend Police DepartmentSouth Bend Common Council member Oliver Davis says the juvenile's family and activists like Black Lives Matter South Bend are even angrier after hearing Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski's defensive tone and words at a press conference Wednesday. -
Jeff Parrott/WVPESouth Bend Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski says Internal Affairs must still conclude its investigation, but he and the department's Use of Force Committee finds nothing wrong with the level of force that Patrolman Samuel Chaput used while detaining a 14-year-old female juvenile Friday outside the downtown McDonald's. -
GooglePBS Michiana – WNIT has laid off five full-time employees and reduced hours for two others after losing about a third of its annual budget in state and federal funding cuts. -
Historic Portage Manor Facebook pageRepublican St. Joseph County Commissioners President Carl Baxmeyer would only say that commissioners have made no decisions on what to do with the Portage Manor property. -
Jakob Lazzaro/WVPEPresident Donald Trump says he plans to end mail-in voting, but an Indiana political scientist says the president does not have the authority to make that change. -
Mike Murrell/WVPEOn Tuesday, local business leaders gathered at the Lerner Theatre in downtown Elkhart for the annual economic update from the Greater Elkhart Chamber of Commerce.
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The children and neighbors of St. Joseph Church in South Bend gathered to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year. It seems as if they were literally and figuratively “hanging on to summer”!
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