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INDIANAPOLIS — Reds a Christmas color, at least. Three counties in the four-county area will be spending Christmas with a red rating from the Indiana State Department of Health, representing very high spread of COVID-19 as northeast Indiana remains one of the states hotspots. Steuben County, which has yo-yod between orange and red for the past five weeks came back up into the red this week after going orange last week, while LaGrange and DeKalb counties stayed in red again. Noble County is...

Credit FILE PHOTO: Rebecca Green / WBOI News  While there were few COVID-19 deaths reported Wednesday in northeast Indiana, the area’s ICU capacity tightened slightly, dropping from about 22 percent of beds available Tuesday, to 16.8 percent on Wednesday.  Hospitalizations were also up again on Wednesday, with 295 in the area hospitalized with the illness, according to the Indiana State Department of Health. Only two deaths were reported in northeast Indiana, one each in Huntington and Waba...

Credit Screenshot of Indiana Department of Health Twenty-two deaths were reported in Allen County Tuesday, a reflection of a lag in reporting over the past week, meaning 453 Allen County residents have died from COVID-19. There were 188 new positive tests reported Tuesday, according to the Allen County Department of Health. Over the past four days in northeast Indiana, roughly 17 percent of those hospitalized were due to COVID-19. Around 16 percent of those making a trip to an emergency room we...

It’s the fifth consecutive week that Indiana has logged more than 100 deaths on Tuesday. Locally, DeKalb County reported its 51st death while Steuben County recorded its 19th all-time. In DeKalb County, the new death occurred back on Thursday and was a person in their 70s, according to the state. To date, DeKalb County has had three deaths among people in their 60s, 16 deaths of patients in their 70s and 32 deaths at the 80-plus age grouping. In Steuben County, the new death occurred on Su...

An example of the rising demand for COVID-19 testing is the drive-through site in Kosciusko County. The site opened in October, at the beginning of the autumn surge that has caused 64 deaths in the county. Since its opening, the site has processed on average 194 tests per day, according to a press release from the Bowen Center, which operates the site on behalf of the Indiana State Department of Health.   Kosciusko County has seen a total of 6,399 cases of the illness, an addition of 35 on Mon...

KENDALLVILLE — A Rome City man arrested and charged with child molesting was the most-read story of the last week on kpcnews.com. Travis Coleman Weaver, 35, of the 500 block of Spring Beach Road, Rome City, is charged with a Level 1 felony charge of child molesting. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison. A warrant was filed Dec. 2 for Weaver’s arrest following a two-month investigation by Steuben County Sheriff’s Detective Austin Rowlands. Weaver allegedly touc...

INDIANAPOLIS — DeKalb, Noble and LaGrange counties combined for five new deaths in Saturday’s statewide COVID-19 report. Case numbers were way down compared to a week ago and hospitalizations fell again, but deaths stayed high as they have for weeks now. In Saturday’s report, DeKalb County logged three new deaths to go to 50 overall, while Noble County logged its 53rd death and LaGrange County recorded its 43rd death. The three new DeKalb County deaths were spread out over the la...

Credit Photo Illustration by WBOI Northeast Indiana ICU capacity remains just under 15 percent Friday, an improvement of where the area was in the middle of the week, just above 11 percent. Hospitalizations were down in the area as well, below 300 for the first time in over a month, according to the Indiana State Department of Health. However, there were an additional 11 deaths reported in the area, including four in Allen County and five deaths in DeKalb County. Allen County reported 185 new c...

Another eight COVID-19 deaths were reported by the Allen County Health Department Thursday. Another 281 residents tested positive for the illness. There have been 424 people killed by COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, and a total of 25,058 have tested positive in Allen County. The virus has killed 2 percent of those infected with it around the state, according to the Regenstrief Institute which tracks COVID-19 hospitalizations and outcomes.  Of the more than 470,000 Hoosiers infect...

INDIANAPOLIS — LaGrange and DeKalb counties combined for three new COVID-19 deaths on Thursday. Statewide deaths were down a little compared to recent days, but still running at record high averages and case counts have bounced back after being down a little in recent days. On Thursday, LaGrange County recorded two new deaths and DeKalb County recorded one more. LaGrange County’s 41st and 42nd deaths both occurred on Tuesday and both were people 80 or older. To date, LaGrange County h...