City council members initially proposed moving smokers farther away from the entrances to city buildings, to avoid having smoke disturb the workers inside. But a newer proposal would go much further: banning smoking on all city property, including the city’s beach, golf course and other park facilities.
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Event organizer Richard Aguirre says the immigration forum is hosted by the Goshen City Democratic Party but it's not meant to be a rally against the Trump Administration or ICE.
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An Elkhart middle school teacher allegedly told police that his encounter with a 15-year-old was a “Grindr hookup.” Donald C. Shafer, 54, of Bristol, and the boy were allegedly found in a parked car early Wednesday, by a Goshen police officer conducting a routine patrol of Shanklin Park.
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“In a lot of these locations, we’re removing traffic signals in very rural, kind of isolated locations where we have a tendency to kind of create a [speed] yo-yo effect for vehicles and especially trucks,” INDOT Deputy Commissioner Jason Kaiser told the Michiana Area Council of Governments’ Policy Board on Wednesday.
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Republican St. Joseph County Council member Dan Schaetzle has vowed to run for re-election in the May primary, despite Republicans saying he's not in good standing with the party.
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The former Elkhart County clerk and his chief deputy will serve two years of probation. Christopher Anderson and Carol Smith were accused of paying supervisors for 80 hours of work bi-weekly even though they only worked 72.
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St. Joseph County Coroner Patricia Jordan on Wednesday declined to release the name of a woman killed in a South Bend house fire, saying it's her policy to never share information with the news media. But Indiana Code requires coroners to disclose, among other things, the names of individuals whose deaths they investigate.
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