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INDIANAPOLIS — Beverly Gard represented Indiana State Senate District 28 for more than two decades, and she got to know the communities she represented well. Gard, a Republican, was familiar

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Fed Baltimore’s Violent Crime Problem As the wrath of the coronavirus persisted, so did the city’s vast collection of violent crimes, which couldn’t be curtailed by stay-at-home orders or contained by other restrictions. The coronavirus crept into Baltimore in the middle of March, amid the city’s usual variety of carjackings, commercial break-ins, and wild not-so-west chaos. At first, it introduced itself as a temporary problem. The danger it posed seemed st...

After teacher pay report, educators hope for more state action 12/26/20 7:36 AM INDIANAPOLIS — A report recently released on how to raise Indiana teacher pay has recommended a number of pathways both school corporations and the state government could take to increase salaries, but some educators say the recommendations place too much responsibility on corporations and not enough on the state. The Next Level Teachers Compensation Commission, a panel tasked with finding ways to make Indiana tea...

Ronnie Mohr: ‘A positive role model for our community’ 12/17/20 6:02 AM GREENFIELD — Hancock County Sheriff Brad Burkhart worked with Ronnie Mohr as a member of the sheriff’s department merit board, but that’s not where their relationship started. Growing up as a member of a farming family, Burkhart had known Mohr for most of his life. “Everybody knows everybody in the farming community, it seems like,” Burkhart said. When Burkhart’s father was dying of cancer in 2005, he and hi...