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SOUTH BEND — County Metro Homicide Unit investigators are looking into the discovery of a body in a vacant house Tuesday night in the 400 block of West Navarre Street.

SOUTH BEND — A local firm spent the past year identifying problems with property assessments in St. Joseph County, and it might be hired again to help solve them.

SOUTH BEND — Stephen Byrd was allegedly texting his ex-girlfriend from inside her house only minutes before he attacked her and left her with multiple stab wounds nearly two years ago.

SOUTH BEND — Stephen Byrd was allegedly texting his ex-girlfriend from inside her house only minutes before he attacked her and left her with multiple stab wounds nearly two years ago.

Event is at late author's former home in Rome City

INDIANAPOLIS — A wealthy Indiana state legislator is joining what has already become a bitter campaign for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly next year.

MASON, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Department of Civil Rights officials say a veteran's front-yard sign advertising the sale of his home violates state and federal laws because it calls for "no foreigners."

SOUTH BEND — The United Way of St. Joseph County has hired a new president and CEO, Laura Jensen, who has served for nearly five years as director of one of its partner charities: El Campito Child Development Center.

SOUTH BEND — Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be a featured speaker at the Sept. 1 unveiling of a new U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring the late Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, former longtime president of the University…

The victim, a 32-year-old man, told police he was shot while sitting in a car in the 300 block of West Indiana Avenue early Tuesday.