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The 30-year-old data analyst and opera singer won more than $76,000 in the episodes that aired Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
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Photo provided, REAL Services/WVPESouth Bend-based REAL Services, still hopeful that the GOP-controlled Congress won't support the cuts, took Rep. Rudy Yakym on a Meals on Wheels ride-along Friday. -
FacebookElkhart landlords pushed back this week against a proposed rental registration ordinance the City Council plans to vote on Monday. -
Rokita's lawsuit accuses Redman of breaking state law by barring officers from telling federal immigration enforcement officials when undocumented immigrants are in the jail, and refusing to hold them longer for federal agents. Redman denies the allegations and has asked a judge to dismiss the suit. -
ProvidedGoshen Mayor Gina Leichty said it be wasteful and irresponsible for the city to stop projects that the AmeriCorps colleagues have worked on after the Trump Administration abandoned the young adults. -
ProvidedAn attorney for Todd Cummings' chief financial officer reportedly had said the Arizona district had slowed its hiring process because of the South Bend investigation. -
Provided by SBCSCSouth Bend School Board members received a sobering update Monday night as investigators revealed evidence of possible grade manipulation in the district.
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“Places, Everyone! Is the WVPE Photo of the Week shows a gorgeous row of blooming trees showing off near Berrien Springs, Michigan.
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State revenue grew faster than the rate of inflation last year, but not enough to trigger an income tax rollback under a state law. -
Indiana school districts are bracing for the impacts of a property tax measure recently signed into law by Gov. Mike Braun. Exact revenue cuts vary wildly from district to district, but some school officials say their districts will face significant losses, even if they’re not yet sure of the full extent. -
Indiana clergy continue to denounce Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s statements about the Three-Fifths Compromise and call on the governor to take a stronger stand. They say Gov. Mike Braun’s response so far has been “woefully inadequate.” -
The state of Indiana will soon issue fines to speeding drivers via its highway work zone speed cameras for the first time. -
Christopher Schurr took the stand in his own defense Friday morning in a Kent County courtroom. It's the first time the former Grand Rapids police officer has spoken publicly about how he shot and killed Patrick Lyoya during a traffic stop in 2022. -
President Donald Trump’s administration is preemptively suing the state of Michigan to block climate change lawsuits against oil and gas companies. -
The Michigan Statewide Infrastructure Workforce Plan is a framework for creating and enhancing job opportunities and training programs to meet Michigan's critical infrastructure needs. -
Goshen Fire Chief Anthony Powell says the department has made the job safer for firefighters in recent years, focusing on protecting them from carcinogens. -
Fortunately, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management said it didn’t receive any reports of damage to the state’s coal ash ponds. But many of those ponds are in the floodplain, putting them at greater risk for spills. -
More than 100,000 retired public employees in Indiana will receive an additional benefit this year known as the 13th check. But lawmakers reduced the amount of that extra benefit by about 5 percent.
Indiana lawmakers approved cuts to funding WVPE in the state budget
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's center-left Labor Party is seeking a second term. His opponent, conservative opposition leader Peter Dutton, wants to become the first political leader to oust a first-term government since 1931. -
An Illinois landlord who killed a 6-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured the boy's mother in a brutal hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced to 53 years in prison. -
Radio Free Asia is laying off about 90 percent of its staff. It says it can no longer pay people after its funding was cut off by the Trump administration. -
The interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices. -
Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
