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A developer tried to renovate the Lafayette Building in 2023 and 2024 but ultimately failed to secure financing, partly because of a fire in the 1930s in the basement.
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Provided/Elkhart CountyFinding 86 children in a Goshen-area home with just three adults is what apparently prompted a lawsuit this week. -
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Michael Gallenberger/WVPELarge crowds ventured to Marshall County on Friday to see the world’s largest operating steam engine in action. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 made a whistle stop east of Argos. -
Jeff Parrott/WVPEIndiana statute requires city common council members to have lived in the city for a year and in their council district for six months, but property records show Heidi Beidinger bought her South Bend home only nine months ago. -
St. Joseph County has decided not to study a new rail corridor along Capital Avenue, despite getting a federal grant for that purpose.
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