St. Joseph County prosecutors say 46-year-old Republican appraiser Gloria Niedbalski made a fake child neglect complaint that drew police and child welfare officials to the Granger home of Republican County Council member Amy Drake during a council meeting last year.
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"Your job is to take care of the people of Bristol, and you’re not doing it," Lester Otto told council members. "What you’re doing is feeding the money grabbers."
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A suspected tornado left one person dead and several people injured in Cass County, Michigan. In an update from the county on Friday evening, Emergency Manager Manny DeLaRosa said, “multiple large structures — including homes and pole barns — sustained damage ranging from major structural impacts to complete destruction.”
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The Elkhart Police Department has released the names of the officers who fatally shot a teenager last month at High Dive Park. Patrolman Thomas Breneman and Patrolman Nicholas Ragsdale both discharged their service weapons during the incident, according to an Elkhart police press release.
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St. Joseph Circuit Judge John Broden has ruled that the county election board acts as a state, rather than a county, entity, so someone appealing its ruling in court can still receive a fair trial in a county court.
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South Bend police say they quickly found 20-year-old hit-and-run suspect Michael Pyburn Jr. after analysts in their Real Time Crime Center spotted video of a man wearing a distinctive coat that witnesses had described the suspect wearing.
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Planners’ preferred alternative would widen U.S. 33 to four lanes between Monroe Street and Plymouth Avenue and five lanes from Plymouth Avenue to Kercher Road, including a center turn lane. Other planned improvements include an eight-food-wide multiuse path between Monroe and Kercher, plus new curbs and sewers.
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