St Joseph County News

Mayor Pete Buttigieg addressed a room filled with members of the South Bend Anti-Violence Commission Tuesday morning and recounted the story of 18-year-old Chris Simril, who was killed last year.

Police say 89-year-old Christel Moryl drowned in a private pond on Park Place, near the assisted living facility where she lived.

A pair of St. Joseph County brothers, who've been convicted of scams in the past, are now facing federal charges.

Prosecutors in northern Indiana are dropping child neglect charges against a mother whose two young sons locked themselves in the trunk of her car and died.

Dispatchers say police found the woman, who they estimate to be in her late 60s, near the corner of 3rd Street and Beech Road in Osceola.

An early morning semi rollover closes down the roundabout at Cleveland Road and Bittersweet Road.

Police say an 89-year-old woman with severe dementia drowned in a pond after leaving her assisted-living apartment unnoticed.

Amid an FBI and Indiana State Police probe, the Walkerton-Lincoln Township Public Library has reopened with limited public hours.

The St. Joseph County prosecutor's office has decided to drop the criminal case against Jacqueline Wilk, accused of neglect in the deaths of her two sons.

Prosecutors in northern Indiana are dropping child neglect charges against a mother whose two young sons locked themselves in the trunk of her car and died.

In April, Former Party Chairman Butch Morgan was found guilty on four counts of conspiracy in forging signatures.

A former Democratic county chairman in northern Indiana and a party worker convicted of forging signatures on petitions placing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the state's 2008 presidential primary ballot should soon know their punishments.

For a handful of children visiting an early-1800s cabin Sunday afternoon, even a simple craft project became a lesson in the realities of frontier life.

Beginning Monday morning, the westbound driving lane on the Cleveland Road bridge over St. Joseph River in South Bend will be closed and traffic will be restricted to the inside lane of the bridge.

Once a prominent force in local politics, with his stout figure and bespectacled face a given at events like Dyngus Day, former chairman of the county's Democratic Party Owen "Butch" Morgan will be sentenced Monday for his role in a ballot fraud case that ended his more than 16-year career in scandal.

A northern Indiana man is facing murder charges alleging that he fatally shot a teenager last year after luring him to a South Bend park.

Osceola Police say a man who was in the building when the explosion happened Tuesday told police he was working on a carburetor when it blew up, but St. Joseph County sheriff's deputies say methamphetamine was being cooked there.

A sign on the front door today offered apologies for the inconvenience and stated that the closing will be temporary.

Not only is the weeklong event that starts Monday moving to Heritage Square in Granger, the live broadcast is coming down from the roof.

The FBI and Indiana State Police are conducting an investigation of a smalltown library in southwest St. Joseph County, a state police spokesman confirmed.