Elkhart County

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A new partnership between CAPS and Maple City Health Care Center brings sexual assault nurse examiner services to Elkhart County, giving survivors care close to home.

Elkhart County’s first independent food bank opens early in Jimtown as need grows and SNAP cuts strain families. GymTown founders call for local support.

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.

The new Elkhart County Courthouse, costing an estimated $112 million, will consolidate the county's existing courthouses in Goshen and Elkhart. Trials will start this fall.

Elkhart County Health Officer Melanie Sizemore says the county's sexually transmitted disease rate holding largely steady the past five years means the county is losing.

Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity of Elkhart County began construction this week on a new home for a local single mother as part of the it’s annual Women Build project.

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.

Elkhart County is moving forward with plans to turn landfill methane into a revenue source, following the approval of a major agreement with an out-of-state energy company.