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As of now, there will be no COVID-19 vaccine requirement for the more than 100,000 students and many workers returning to Indiana University campuses this fall.

I received my 2021 property tax bill and was puzzled by a $324.46 item. After calling three county departments, I was told this related to the 2020 school referendum, though no one could explain how or on what basis this…

Three men with ties to Elkhart County were arrested in connection with the grisly killing of a Fort Wayne food truck operator, husband and father.

Families could have a better idea this month of what a more normal school year looks like.

A racist post on the official Facebook page of the Brown County (Ind.) Republican Party has elicited some bipartisan backlash.

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law a bill giving the governor and St. Joseph County commissioners the power, taken away from local attorneys and other elected officials, to appoint all members of the panels that pick nominees for Superior…

Jacob Sandock remembers reading his writing in classes with Frances Sherwood at IU South Bend. Students sitting around a table, Sherwood with her elbows planted, listening and processing every word her students read.

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Thirty years ago, when I was still a music critic, I received a letter from a lady who informed me in no uncertain terms that I didn’t know what I was talking about.

Your odds of being killed in a car crash are one in 102; being struck by lightning, one in 15,300; dying in a plane crash, one in 205,000; being eaten by a shark, one in 4 million; or dying in…