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Girl yells, 'You can't touch me, fool!' while officer Sam Chaput replies, 'Yes, I sure can.'
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Peter Ringenberg/FacebookSouth Bend is preparing for budget cuts tied to Indiana’s Senate Bill 1, starting with reductions in the city’s legal department. -
ProvidedThe city of Mishawaka rushed to stake its claim to serve the planned Microsoft data center when it learned that St. Joseph County officials, knowing Granger residents oppose being annexed by the city, plan for a private nearby water utility to instead serve the site. -
Black Lives Matter South Bend Facebook video“I don’t have enough information to make a determination on any legal strategy or legal moves," said civil rights attorney Andrew M. Stroth. "I just want to know what the heck happened.” -
Michael Gallenberger/WVPE“There’s a million ways that could’ve been handled,” Fred Teague told the South Bend Community Police Review Board on Thursday. “That should’ve been deescalated.” -
Carstyn Barna/Provided by Saint Mary's CollegeSaint Mary’s College welcomed more than 480 first-year students and about 20 transfers Thursday, making this year’s incoming class the largest since the 1980s. -
GooglePBS Michiana – WNIT has laid off five full-time employees and reduced hours for two others after losing about a third of its annual budget in state and federal funding cuts.
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The children and neighbors of St. Joseph Church in South Bend gathered to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year. It seems as if they were literally and figuratively “hanging on to summer”!
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