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With school almost out for the summer, Mark Tarner hopes to open June 20 but notes that's "a goal"
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IUSB's faculty senate voted 104-21 to call for Pam Whitten's termination this week.
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The health department says it doesn't yet know details on how much the two doctors will be paid
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Tonya Robinson was finally sentenced to 9 years in prison and two years of probation for her role in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme as director of South Bend Housing Authority.
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Connie Grabowski was awarded $600,000 by a jury after they agreed South Bend schools wrongfully retaliated against her
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‘The Sauce Live’ EP 5 presents Brad Billmaier's Artificer Quartet in concert at Merrimans’ Playhouse
‘The Sauce Live' with host Dawn Burns Monday May 20th at 7 p.m. eastern.
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The state treasurer and the Legislature’s top budget advisors reached a consensus that tax revenues are tight compared to recent years but steady enough to support plans for an $80 billion budget.
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Indiana Disability Rights and ACLU of Indiana filed a federal complaint on behalf of two Indiana children who receive attendant care from their parents as well as the Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission.
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Educators have concerns over new literacy endorsement requirements set to take place over the next few years. One of those concerns involves $1,200 stipends that will be awarded to some educators who receive the endorsement.
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Indiana’s labor force has steadily declined over the past six months, according to new preliminary estimates. The labor force currently stands at the lowest point it’s been in over two years.
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While former President Donald Trump easily won Indiana’s Republican presidential primary last week, Nikki Haley garnered about 22 percent of the vote — despite the fact she dropped out of the race two months earlier, before Hoosiers started voting.
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Michigan’s jobless rate remained stable in April at 3.9%, according to figures released Thursday by the Michigan Center for Data and Analytics.
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The rate of drug overdose deaths in the country decreased by about three percent in 2023, marking the first annual decrease since 2018. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the number of overdose deaths in Indiana decreased from 2022 to 2023.
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Polis Center’s State of Aging report looked at adults aged 55 and older in central Indiana — the region’s fastest growing demographic.
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Protesters lay down in the hallway outside Democratic House Speaker Joe Tate's office at the state Capitol on Wednesday, demanding an end to his delay of hearings on auto no-fault bills.
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It could become illegal in Michigan to deny renting to someone because of their source of income, under a bill package heading for the state House of Representatives.
June 7th and 8th on Island Park. More at ElkhartIndiana.org/parks.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at the Lerner on June 14th
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As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to thousands after deadly storms, it will do so under a smog warning and as all of southern Texas starts to feel the heat.
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On Friday, CNN published footage that appears to show the hip-hop mogul, also known as P. Diddy, physically assaulting his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
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More than 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers who build luxury SUVs in Alabama were eligible to vote on whether to join the UAW. Workers faced intense anti-union messaging from Mercedes in the run-up.
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A shot of pure joy to start off the weekend: a charming video of kids from Cork, Ireland, rapping about finding and following their creative voice.
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The first trucks of aid entered Gaza via a pier built by the U.S. But it's challenging to move aid around Gaza, and humanitarian groups operating in Rafah warn they don't have food to distribute.