Jeff Parrott

South Bend Community Police Review Office Director Charles King is asking the common council to reduce training requirements for volunteer board members so they can start hearing cases sooner after being seated by the council.

Developer David Farhan says the former USA Skate Center site's zoning only allows up to two businesses in the 24,000-square-foot building but there isn't demand for such large spaces in that area.

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From a Ringing of the Bell ceremony at St. Joseph County's St. Patrick's Park to a parade in Warsaw, communities across Michiana plan events to mark 25 years since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

St. Joseph County Democratic Party chair Don Westerhausen says Republicans are ignoring his lawsuit to get four Democratic candidates back on the Nov. 3 ballot, so on Thursday he filed an emergency motion asking Judge Jenny Pitts-Manier to hear the case.

South Bend muralist Alex Ann Allen says she eager to start her mural on the Indiana Fever's new $78 million performance center, which includes mentoring an apprentice.

Constantine Police Chief Dan Thayer is assuring his village that a new Michigan Department of Transportation device on Old U.S. 131/Washington Street is not a Flock camera.

Three months after the South Bend Fire Department let the Indiana state fire marshal take over its Lafayette Building fire investigation, there's been no information released about a cause or point of origin.

South Bend Assistant Fire Chief Derrick Erquhart says investigators are gathering nearby surveillance video to determine the origin and cause of Tuesday's intense downtown construction fire.

South Bend Common Council members Oliver Davis Jr. and Sherry Bolden-Simpson have filed a bill barring city officials from entering into non-disclosure agreements, after a James Mueller administration official citing an NDA in declining to attend a recent council committee meeting.