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AUBURN — The DeKalb County Health Department on Tuesday reported six new cases of COVID-19 in DeKalb County residents.

AUBURN — The DeKalb County Health Department on Monday reported nine new cases of COVID-19 in DeKalb County residents over a three-day weekend period.

INDIANAPOLIS — After posting some of its best COVID-19 numbers ever in February, the state is opening March on a low note, and not in a negative way.

LAGRANGE — The LaGrange County Health Department has closed down the COVID-19 vaccination clinic it was operating in the community room of the LaGrange County Public Library, and moved the entire operation to Howe where it has been set up inside the gym at the former Lima-Brighton Elementary School building. Thursday was the last day for the clinic at the LaGrange Public Library. The move gives the health department the room it says it needs to safely serve more people. As more and new vac...

Two teenage brothers from Orland died following a crash in Steuben County, the sheriffs department said Friday. Tyler Michael Curtis, 16, died at th ...

WATERLOO — Northeast Indiana’s state senators heard concerns about school vouchers and career education at a public forum Saturday morning in the DeKalb High School auditorium. Sens. Sue Glick, R-LaGrange, and Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, differed in their responses to opponents of proposed expansion of private-school vouchers. Both senators responded sympathetically to fears that funding might be cut to four programs at Impact Institute at Kendallville and similar career and technical edu...

In northeast Indiana, there have been about 36,727 residents over age 60 fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Credit Ella Abbott / WBOI News Two more area counties are in the “blue” for COVID-19 spread, putting them in the “safest” designation according to the Indiana Department of Health. Adams and Kosciusko counties joined LaGrange with decreasing 7-day positivity rates and overall positive case numbers.   Only two northeast Indiana counties, Whitley and Huntington, remain in the state’s “orange” category, the second-most serious for risk of community spread.      There were 129 new...

LAGRANGE – When Travis Glick was elected LaGrange County’s new prosecutor, he quickly set out to shore up an important position in his office. When former LaGrange County Prosecutor Greg Kenner retired at the first of the year, and Glick was elected his successor, he immediately was short one full-time prosecutor in his office. In an office staffed by only three attorneys, that’s a big problem. So Glick started a candidate search. Earlier this month, he hired Matthew Raper, a 200...

The 7-day COVID-19 positivity rate across northeast Indiana was down to 5.7 percent on Tuesday.