Elkhart Police Department

Elkhart police say an officer was investigating a suspicious vehicle parked at the High Dive Park Pavilion, just after 1:30 Sunday morning. About 13 minutes after the first officer arrived, police say two officers discharged their firearms.

"You don’t have to have a perfect history," Police Chief Dan Milanese told the Elkhart Board of Public Safety last week. "That’s not what we look for, but there are some significant things that people have in their past that we’re unable to rectify, when it comes to that background process in hiring."

A crowd of mostly police officers from area departments greeted the officers with applause Thursday as they walked out of Memorial Hospital in South Bend.

The victim in Sunday's fatal shooting in Elkhart has been identified.

Laura Koch will spend a year on probation and have her license suspended after she pleaded guilty to a DUI in April

Laura Koch, 53, was allegedly swerving and failed multiple sobriety tests when pulled over on County Road 17 on Monday.

Elkhart officials want to buy the old Chase building on Franklin Street for a new public safety building.

The new system, called Raven, more quickly alerts police to instances of gunfire, officials say.

Joshua Titus was sentenced Thursday for punching a handcuffed man at the Elkhart Police Station in 2018

Elkhart Police are looking for a hit and run driver after a woman who was hit died from her injuries. Police believe Carolyn Goddard of Elkhart was hit by a vehicle that left the scene.