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Indiana State Police investigate incident, which comes after female firefighters accused department of culture of sexual harassment and discrimination

Jeff Parrott In January 2020, as southwest Michigan towns were about to see their first recreational marijuana shops open, St. Joseph County Prosecutor Ken Cotter, south of the Indiana line, was meeting with police officers at their shift change roll calls. Cotter told officers in South Bend, Mishawaka and the county to watch for Hoosiers driving to the new shops, getting high and driving back home. “We wanted to let them know that this is something that we take very seriously, and I believe...

Traffic arrests, crashes jump as marijuana operations sprout in southwest Michigan. Is it all high drivers? Jeff Parrott © Robert Franklin, South Bend Tribune In this Tribune file photo, a Michigan state trooper shows a cartridge used in a portable unit that tests a driver’s saliva for the presence of drugs. In January 2020, as southwest Michigan towns were about to see their first recreational marijuana shops open, St. Joseph County Prosecutor Ken Cotter, south of the Indi...

Indiana's red flag law is good; legislators should make it better

Indianas red flag law is good; legislators should make it better

    Items on the agenda include: – Approving a sketch plan of Phase 2 of the Greenbriar Commons subdivision. The property owner and petitioner is Tom Embach with Leisure Homes, Inc. and the presenter is Ken Cotter with Consolidated Land Services; – Approving a sign variance for Brad’s Home Entertainment at 40 Plaza Way, Suite 220. The petitioner and presenter is Brad Elbrader of Brad’s Home Entertainment; – Approving a preliminary plat and utility easement sufficiency for Big Creek...

The videos follow a familiar format. The setting is a public space, often the parking lot of a mall or supermarket. The person holding the cell phone camera approaches the person believed to be meeting a minor for sex, and then the confrontation starts. “What are you doing here today, Jimmy, come on, man! You come out here to meet a 15-year-old girl?” begins one such video, posted to Facebook last week by the group Bikers Against Predators. In the video, “Jimmy” proceeds to ...

SOUTH BEND — In 2019, St. Joseph County courts conducted just over 700 virtual hearings for defendants in the county jail. Social distancing concerns and a special order issued by the Indiana Supreme Court near the onset of the pandemic caused virtual hearings for inmates to nearly triple in 2020, as courts held an increasing number of hearings over the phone or via video. Last year the county jail did 2,058 video court hearings, in which the judge and attorneys are present in the courtroo...

SOUTH BEND — An October crash on Ironwood Road that killed two University of Notre Dame students and severely injured a third has resulted in misdemeanor drunk driving charges for

Unsplash UNDATED (AP) — One patient threatened to shoot Dr. Terry Hunt if physical therapy didn’t relieve his pain as effectively as opioids did. Another harassed his staff, then roamed a hospital searching for Hunt after being told he would be weaned off painkillers he had used inappropriately. Hunt was unharmed, but shaken enough to ask the central Illinois hospital system where he worked to dismiss both patients. So when he heard about Tuesday’s attack at a medical clinic in Buffalo, ...