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HOWE, Ind. — A tractor-trailer crash claimed the driver’s life and caused an acid spill which shut down part of the Indiana Toll Road in LaGrange County for several hours.

LaGRANGE -- A deadly overnight crash along the Indiana Toll Road involving a semi closed the tollway for several hours as crews cleaned up a chemical that spilled from a tanker, police said.

GOSHEN — Interra Credit Union held its 27th annual Hometown Giving holiday service project where staff and members raised more than $40,000 to benefit more than 35 nonprofit agencies throughout the five counties the credit union serves. These agencies focus on children’s needs, meal providing, clothing, medical supplies and education. Adding to the monetary donations raised, hundreds of Angel Tree wish list items were distributed as additional support to the recipient organizations. T...

SHIPSHEWANA — Pajama Day, Shipshewana’s light-hearted, whimsical mid-winter celebration of all things shopping, returns again Saturday, and this time, the celebration couldn’t be more important. COVID-19 knocked many town-wide events off Shipshewana’s calendar last year, like its annual spring celebration, Mayfest, and its Lighted Parade, an event that kicks off the Christmas season here and which typically draws as many as 20,000 to town. But this year Pajama Day, which enc...

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

LIGONIER — Three neighboring families on Ligonier’s north side discovered white supremacy propaganda and other extremist writing dropped next to their mailboxes on Jan. 24 and Jan. 25, likely tossed out of a vehicle under cover of darkness. Ligonier’s fliers were very similar to those distributed in nearby Topeka and Shipshewana earlier that same week. The sheets of paper had “White Lives Matter” printed in a large bold font on one side, and an incoherent, prayer-type t...

After months stuck in the red for COVID-19 spread, Whitley County Health Department officials are optimistic they might be heading in the right direction:

Northeast Indiana’s 7-day COVID-19 positivity rate was down again Thursday, sitting at 8.2 percent.   Whitley County, the area’s stubborn hotspot for the spread of the disease, also saw a decline in positivity, down from 16.6 percent to 15.4 percent.     The Indiana Department of Health conducted a state-wide audit of all suspected COVID-19 deaths from 2020 and 2021 to date.   That audit caused the state’s death totals to jump over 11,000 with the addition of 1,507 historic deaths to ...

State death toll surpasses 10,000 577 from Allen; fully vaccinated in county at 10,802 ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette Total confirmed and probable deaths of Indiana residents from COVID-19 hit 10,000 Tuesday, state health department statistics show – even while Hoosiers are getting vaccinated against the novel coronavirus in large numbers and new cases continue on the decline. Statewide, 9,677 Hoosiers are confirmed through testing to have died from COVID-19. An additional 377 pr...

INDIANAPOLIS — Steuben County reported a new death for the second day in a row, recording its 48th death all time.