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Over the last 24 hours, 24,915 tests were administered to 5,452 Indiana residents. Over the last seven days, the state’s positivity rate on all tests has been 5.2%, with the positivity rate on individuals tested now sitting at 13.8%, a slight increase from the day prior. In the last 24 hours, officials say a total of 32,964 vaccine doses were administered in the state, including 20,281 new second doses and 4,702 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. In all, 2,135,682 Indiana residents are n...

LaGrange County Jail LAGRANGE — Several people were booked into the LaGrange County Jail from Friday, April 23, through Thursday, April 29, according to jail records. Amy Bolen, 44, of the 1400 block of Spring Street, Fort Wayne, was arrested Friday by LaGrange town police on a temporary custody order. Bolen was picked up by authorities in Noble County. Jordan Gibbs, 24, of the 5600 block of East C.R. 415N, Kendallville, was arrested Friday by LaGrange County police on a charge of driving ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Indianas rate of COVID-19 vaccination shots has remained sluggish in recent weeks while coronavirus-related hospitalizations hav ...

Credit Screenshot of the Indiana Department of Health Only LaGrange, Kosciusko and Noble counties have fewer than 30 percent of their populations fully-vaccinated against COVID-19, four months after the state rolled out its vaccination program.   LaGrange County remains relatively hot for community spread as well, with a 7-day positivity rate of more than 14 percent, and a place in the state’s second-worst category on its advisory dashboard.   The northeast Indiana 7-day positivity rate wen...

Credit Justin Hicks / IPB News More than 2 million Hoosiers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a little more than four months into the state’s rollout. The Indiana Department of Health announced the milestone Wednesday. Indiana continues to lag slightly behind our immediate neighbors – with IDOH reporting nearly 30 percent of all Hoosiers fully vaccinated. That compares to 32.6 percent in Kentucky, 33.5 percent in Ohio, 33.3 percent in Michigan and 31.6 percent in Illinois – according...

Several booked into LaGrange County Jail LAGRANGE — Several people were booked into the LaGrange County Jail from Friday through Monday, according to jail records. Jose-Joel Vargas, 24, of the 1100 block of Holms Road, Bronson, Michigan, was booked Friday to serve a sentence relating to a charge of carrying a handgun without a license. Brenda Hankins, 35, of the 7600 block of South C.R. 140E, Wolcottville, was arrested Friday by Wolcottville police on charges of operating while intoxicated...

INDIANAPOLIS — LaGrange and Steuben counties have posted the overall worst county metric scores measuring COVID-19 spread this week. LaGrange County has the highest positivity rate in the state once again — a title it held for multiple weeks in past surges before swinging wildly to one of the lowest positivity rates in the state for a while — while Steuben County has among the highest per-capita case rates in Indiana right now. Overall, Indiana saw a slight worsening in its overa...

FORT WAYNE —The 12th annual “Paddle for Parkview” supporting the Parkview LaGrange Foundation will be virtual again this year, allowing participants to choose their paddle date while following health and safety guidelines. Paddles can be scheduled any available weekday (Monday through Friday) May 3 through Aug. 13 at the Trading Post in Mongo. In lieu of a meal or snacks, participants will receive a gift card to a LaGrange County restaurant. T-shirts will also be provided to thos...

ANGOLA — It might be difficult to tell with rain falling over northeast Indiana, but the region is about midway into the spring season in the throes of drought conditions that began about a year ago, the National Weather Service Northern Indiana said. It all started in June 2020 when it was determined that northeast Indiana was considered dry. “In the consecutive weeks after, at least some portion of our area was abnormally dry,” the National Weather Service Northern Indiana said...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana entered April seeing rising COVID-19 numbers from all-time lows hit in March, and although the state saw more overall activity, the uptick was slow and short-lived, already starting to come back down. That being said, northeast Indiana hasn’t started to see an improvement yet, as cases continue to rise again across regions near the Michigan border. After March was arguably Indiana’s best month ever during the pandemic, April didn’t quite hit the same m...