The St. Joseph County Council's new bill requiring solar developers to guarantee they won't lower property values within a mile comes a year after the council passed new restrictions on solar farms.
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North Carolina-based Animal Victory is rallying its 200,000 newsletter subscribers to urge Elkhart County Prosecutor Vicki Becker to refile felony animal cruelty charges against Jayco RV workers John Lipscomb, Travis McKay and Arlin Hochstetler. Court records say the men told police they intentionally killed two cats in a trash compactor because they were a nuisance at the Middlebury plant.
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Citing a potential conflict of interest that he doesn't disclose, St. Joseph County Circuit Judge John Broden has recused himself from Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's immigration-related lawsuit against Sheriff Bill Redman.
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Elkhart County prosecutors say 35-year-old Nicholas Stanley fatally shot Allen Cogswell, also 35, at the Daylite Inn, after Cogswell was released early from prison for molesting Stanley's female relative.
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After nearly three decades caring for patients in the U.S., a local physician quietly closed his practice last month and left the country under threat of deportation.
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Countryside Village residents with window air-conditioners learned Wednesday that they'll have until this fall to get rid of them and switch to central air or portable air-conditioners.
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Let's Turn It Around Founder Lynn Coleman said he decided to organize the press conference after a recent spate of gun- and knife-related crimes across the city.
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