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LAGRANGE – As LaGrange County’s JDAI coordinator, Randy Merrifield’s focused on ways hopes will help local teens stay out of trouble.

LAGRANGE — An Elkhart man sentenced to prison for his role in the armed robbery of a Howe homeowner nearly five years ago was denied a plea to have his sentence modified. Joseph Phillips is one of the four people convicted of the June 2016 home invasion and armed robbery of former LaGrange resident and former LaGrange County Commissioner Phil Curtis. Phillips was with Alan Anyul, Milton Garcia, and Shandale Rogers, all of Elkhart, as they broke into Curtis’s home early in the morning, roused him from the couch where he was sleeping. They threatened Curtis with a handgun, demanding h...

LAGRANGE — Saying it would be tough to enforce a county building mask mandate once the state backs away from a state-wide mask mandate, the LaGrange County Commissioners voted Monday to ease rules their regulations and no longer require those entering county buildings to wear a mask. Instead, the mandate is now merely a recommendation. The move comes as coronavirus pandemic policies across the state are being eased. LaGrange County remains a blue county, meaning it has one of the lowest metrics for community spread of the coronavirus as calculated by the Indiana Department of Health. LaG...

With COVID-19 keeping a lot of people home in 2020, there were fewer people out committing crimes in northeast Indiana.

With COVID-19 keeping a lot of people home in 2020, there were fewer people out committing crimes in northeast Indiana. Although, not so much in Steuben County, where they had an approximately 30% increase in the number of criminal charges filed compared to previous years. Overall criminal filings in 2020 were down compared to 2019, with DeKalb, LaGrange and Noble county prosecutors all filling fewer charges last year than in previous years. Steuben County, however, went the opposite direction, seeing an increase in filings. As the least populous county in the area, Steuben usually has the lo...