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All local counties rated yellow for COVID

Several booked into LaGrange County Jail

FORT WAYNE — Two LaGrange County high school students have been named Questa Traditional Scholar recipients. They join more than 70 new scholars in Northeast Indiana and more than 300 scholars currently receiving funding for their college degrees. The pair will graduate from high school this spring and enter college this fall as freshmen. They are Hannah Martin of Westview who will attend Indiana University at Kokomo and Ella Thompson of Prairie Heights who will attend the University of Sa...

Several booked into LaGrange County Jail

INDIANAPOLIS — All of the four northeast Indiana counties are in the yellow rating for COVID-19 spread, said information provided by the Indiana State Department of Health on Wednesday. The ratings marked a departure from the previous few weeks as Steuben County finally moved out of orange. DeKalb, LaGrange and Noble remained in the yellow. Overall, the state improved. Northern Indiana had been a hot spot due to its proximity to Michigan, which had been experience much spread of the corona...

Countys case totals continue steady decline ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette Allen Countys newly reported COVID-19 cases dropped into the low 30s Monday for the second time in a little more than a week – as numbers of fully vaccinated people in the county continued to rise. Mondays 33 reported confirmed cases amounted to only about 5% of what the county saw on Nov. 13, 2020, the pandemics local peak day for cases, when 608 new cases were reported. The county reported 31 confirmed c...

Nearly 8,700 military veterans live in the four northeastern counties of Indiana — DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble and Steuben. They received $77 million in veterans’ benefits during 2019, the most recent year for which statistics are available. The potential is even greater. Estimates say that fewer than 40% of veterans are receiving the VA benefits to which they are entitled or even know where to get them. That percentage likely is higher in northeastern Indiana, thanks to the efforts of de...

Commissioners want to wait on new jail AUBURN — Two out of three DeKalb County Commissioners made it clear Monday that they do not support building a jail right now. During their weekly meeting at the courthouse in Auburn, Bill Hartman and Todd Sanderson said they want to wait until a spike in construction costs subsides. The commissioners have been considering a new jail seriously since January, when they chose the Elevatus architecture firm of Fort Wayne to design a jail on property at t...

LAGRANGE — Indiana’s economy fared better overall in 2020 than most people expected, Indiana State Senator Sue Glick (R-LaGrange), told a crowd gathered Thursday for lunch at the American Legion

INDIANAPOLIS — Noble County recorded one new COVID-19 this past week, but statewide cases and positivity dropped as overall activity has started to recede again. The 84th death in Noble County occurred on May 9 and was a person in their 60s, according to demographic information from the state. Its the first death in Noble County in more than a month, with the last death occurring on April 3. To date in Noble County, one death has been among a resident in the 40s, three were people in their...