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Dr. Ashfaq Turk, a cardiologist with Saint Joseph Health Center Mishawaka, says an aortic dissection is a tearing of the aorta, the main artery carrying blood from the heart to the body's organs and extremities. It usually feels like a sharp pain in the center of the chest that radiates back to between the shoulders.
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Enchem America Inc., which makes electrolytes for electric batteries, is slowing its plans to build a plant near New Carlisle as GM and Samsung pause their battery plant project. -
Michael Gallenberger/WVPEThe Elkhart School Board will consider an agreement Tuesday to transfer the former Osolo Elementary School to Premier Arts Academy for a dollar. -
Michael Gallenberger/WVPEAn Elkhart County organization is working with researchers to better understand the impact of contamination on local homes. -
WVPE/WVPEA study earlier this year found South Bend, with the lowest home prices, to be the nation's best college town for investing in short-term-rentals. -
Marshall County prosecutors formally charged 44-year-old Bobbie Jo Novak with Level 5 felony kidnapping Friday, three days after police say she took an acquaintance's 3-week-old son near Plymouth. -
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