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AUBURN — A DeKalb County man described the wife he strangled as his “soulmate,” while the woman’s daughter sobbed loudly after questioning why her mother had been killed, during a sentencing hearing Monday in DeKalb Superior Court II. Joseph F. Traster, 55, pleaded guilty to intentionally killing Lisa M. Heiser while acting “under sudden heat” in a Waterloo house on Halloween last year. Traster originally faced a charge of murder, but that was amended to a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, a Level 2 felony, as part of a plea agreement. Under the terms of t...

AUBURN — An Ohio man who was arrested in December in connection with a string of vehicle thefts and home invasions now faces additional charges in the case. Nicholas Larkin, 37, of Defiance, Ohio, was arrested on preliminary charges of burglary with a deadly weapon, a Level 2 felony, and auto theft, a Level 6 felony. On Tuesday, DeKalb County Judge Monte Brown granted a request from DeKalb County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Neal Blythe to add seven more charges: resisting law enforcement, a Class A misdemeanor; theft, a Level 6 felony; robbery resulting in bodily injury, a Level 3 felony; th...

AUBURN — A bankruptcy filing this week blocked a sheriff’s sale of the Heron Lake property south of Auburn. Heron Development filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday afternoon in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Indiana. A document signed by Heron Development managing member Stephen Brown said the filing is “for the purpose of restricting the company’s finances and stop the Sheriff’s sale scheduled for April 22, 2021.” In December 2020, a DeKalb County judge ordered that the 300-acre housing development south of Auburn should be sold in a sher...

Racist clauses in property deeds can’t be enforced, but still exist. A Texas bill would make it easier to remove them. Texas Tribune Updated:  Tags:  An untold number of Texas properties still have language in their deeds that put racial restrictions on who can occupy them, even though the U.S. Supreme Court declared such restrictions illegal decades ago. (Credit: Shelby Knowles for The Texas Tribune) James McGee knows well the history of housing discrimination against Black people like him in Texas. He worked in the mortgage industry for 20 years and now advocates for the revitalization ...

AUBURN — It took a month of sleuthing, but a man wanted on a Level 3 felony rape charge in DeKalb County has been arrested in Kentucky after nearly a year on the run, police said. Christopher F. Johnston, 30, was arrested by Kentucky State Trooper Mark Spencer at a residence in Thelma, Kentucky, late Friday afternoon. Johnston is going through the extradition process so he can be brought to Indiana to face the charge, according to the Indiana State Police. A no-bond warrant was issued for Johnston on the rape charge on Feb. 27, 2020, by DeKalb County Superior Court II Judge Monte Brown.