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SOUTH BEND — The mood was celebratory late Monday night at the Friendly Confines, a Chicago Cubs-themed bar on the city's southwest-side, despite the team having lost that day to the crosstown White Sox.

MICHIGAN CITY — Emergency repairs have been ordered to eliminate the growing risk of the historic Franklin Street draw bridge getting stuck up or down.

MICHIGAN CITY — Marcus Scully is pleading not guilty in the hit-and-run death of 5-year-old Delaney Klewer.

Raymond Richmond could face 12 to 18 years in prison in 1977 death of his cousin, Robert Stasiak.

NILES — James Parker Huffman, 52, was charged Tuesday in the death of Angela Glara Cluver.

The driver of the moped, Tracy Jacobs, 54, was taken to the hospital in critical condition with a severe brain injury, police said.

SOUTH BEND — An Oct. 24 trial date has been set for Joseph Matthew Bannister, a former Indiana University South Bend student athlete who is charged with one felony count of rape.

It should come as no surprise that school officials, navigating the highly competitive waters of school choice, are pushing their efforts beyond the school year calendar.

The South Bend Common Council voted Monday night to let a southwest-side bar resume serving customers on its patio despite neighbors’ complaints about noise.

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