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Girls flag football officially becomes an emerging sport this year with the Indiana High School Athletic Association. If about 10 more schools start teams, it will become an IHSAA state championship sport, commonly known as "varsity."
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Mike Murrell/WVPESlate Auto has already moved into the historic R.R. Donnelley factory in Warsaw, where demolition is underway to prepare the site for electric-vehicle production. -
Indiana LandmarksGeorge Garner, with Indiana University South Bend's Civil Rights Heritage Center, says the building initially housed offices for Black professionals before later serving as a pool hall and recreation center offering then-"seedy" things like a daily numbers game. -
mcapindiana.comMore mental health services will be coming to the South Bend area next year. Nonprofit Imani Unidad has gotten a $1 million grant to launch a mobile crisis team. -
screenshot from Marshall County YouTube video"I don’t see this project as being financially viable going forward," said Council President Tim Harman. "It just makes no sense to me whatsoever." -
ProvidedAmazon on Wednesday announced the opening of its Elkhart Delivery Station off John Weaver Parkway. Its 250 employees, earning an average $19 an hour, sort and pick the packages before loading them into delivery vehicles. -
An Elkhart Sheriff's Department spokesman says the truck driver was not ticketed because he had covered his load with a tarp as required but he told police it shifted when he was forced to brake hard after another driver cut him off.
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