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NEW PARIS - We're learning more about a scary ending to an exciting evening at the race track in New Paris Saturday night. Just before midnight, a stock car hit a wall at the New Paris Speedway, injuring 6 spectators. Rick Rolston is the head of New Paris EMS and says the debris from the crash flew into the stands, causing the injuries. All 6 victims were taken to IU Health Goshen Hospital, and according to Speedway spokesman Michael Rife, all were treated and released.

MIDDLEBURY - A Goshen woman is dead after a two-car crash near Middlebury early Wednesday morning. Elkhart County police say around 1:20 a.m., 40-year-old Arellano Eustolia was heading south on State Road 13, about a mile south of Middlebury's town limits when she made a left-hand turn to head east onto County Road 20. At the same time, another car was coming from behind and tried to pass a separate car, failing to see Eustolia making the...

CASSOPOLIS, Mich. - Cass County's prosecutor says a band of scrap metal thieves was no match for an off-duty police officer. And now, the leader of the band will pay a heavy metal price - up to life in prison. A Circuit Court jury only took 15 minutes on Wednesday to convict Anthony Cox, 57, of Edwardsburg of the crime. Prosecutor Victor Fitz says Cox is a fourth time habitual offender, and that's why he faces such a huge prison sentence. Cox has a criminal record of several theft-related felonies.

SOUTH BEND -- All too often, for many children, problems at school or on the streets often start at home, where kids might not always have a role model to teach them important life lessons. City leaders think it's a problem we all share, and they think it's something the community as a whole, can fix. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and other leaders on Monday announced the formation of a booster club, a formal support network, to promote existing mentoring programs, like Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Ticks are pretty bad this year, especially for dogs, according to a veterinarian who has been pulling them off pets every day for the past few weeks. “Just since it's warmed up the past couple or few weeks the number of ticks have gone up dramatically,” said Dr. Jeffrey Vogl, a veterinarian at University Park Veterinary Hospital. It's sure not what most people want to think about as the weather warms, but it's something to be aware of now that a lot of people and pets are heading outdoors to play.

We are just learning about a massive drug bust in Berrien County. A Michigan State Police trooper stopped a car early Friday morning for weaving out of the lane of I-94. During a search of the car, he found about 160 pounds of pot hidden inside duffle bags in the back of the vehicle. The 36-year-old driver is in the Berrien County jail this morning on charges of possession with intent to deliver. His 3-year-old son, who was also in the car, was placed with relatives through CPS.  

NILES - Indiana and Michigan may share a border, but for people who ride motorcycles the laws make the two places feel like different worlds. Marc Milhander with Kar Club in Niles said it was evident. "When I first started seeing people park at the state line and either taking a helmet off or putting one on, it took me a while to get used to that scene," said Milhander. "It simply looked weird. " Michigan's helmet law had been on the books since the 1960s.

An Osceola woman has received a nearly three-year prison term for embezzling from her employer. Roxanna Brown, 34, a long-trusted employee of Mishawaka-based Steinhoffer Scale Co. Inc., handled the company’s finances. U.S. District Judge Jon DeGuilio ordered her to serve 33 months in prison and pay more than $481,000 in restitution. Brown admitted to using several methods to steal the money, according to her federal guilty plea. She used company credit cards and wrote company checks to herself, falsely logging them on company books as legitimate payments to distributors and business partners.

Every kid loves coloring. Coloring requires crayons. Every parent dreads the inevitable: crayons on clothes. A quick internet search yields a variety of options to get crayon out of clothes. They all include WD-40, dish soap...and a hope and a prayer. To demonstrate, we used a pillowcase and a red crayon. We tied the pillow case up so we wouldn't ruin our dryer. In it went, on high heat. About 20 minutes later out it came. It was a very messy pillowcase and a messy dryer, too. To clean the dryer: Wipe the crayon with paper towel while it is still hot and melted.

It might be the first of its kind in the country ... A vertical farming operation in our area is providing fresh, organic fruit and vegetables year round. Green Spirit Farms has been producing local grown, fresh fruits and vegetables since February. Right now, the farming operation in New Buffalo has four rotary gardens. The company just got off the ground last year. The plants are grown in cylinders which rotate on a carousel like structure around a light bulb and through water.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY — One person has died in an accident at Indiana 2 and Quince Road involving a semi-truck and a car carrying five people, Tribune staff at the scene reported Tuesday evening. An Indiana State Police officer at the Bremen post said the accident involved a semi. A Tribune photographer at the scene reported that the semi driver was not hurt but was taken to a hospital. A Tribune reporter said the front-seat passenger in a Cadillac carrying five people died instantly at the scene.

The RV industry has shown signs of recovery but it's not picking up fast enough in Wakarusa. Allied Specialty Vehicles bought Monaco RV from Navistar, and they plan to move operations from Wakarusa to Decatur, Indiana. That's southeast of Fort Wayne. 515 jobs may be at stake. Those employees were sent home Thursday with pay after being informed of the changes. The chief operating officer for ASV says although the company is moving it doesn't mean people will lose their jobs.

MISHAWAKA - Eat, live and play. It's a new trend of living in a lot of big cities, and now that concept is coming to Toscana Park in Mishawaka. Construction is underway for a hundred new apartments off Gumwood Road, and businesses in that area are already welcoming the extra traffic flow. The concept is easy: You can go grocery shopping, go to the gym or out to a nice dinner and it's all just a few feet away from where you live. Developers say these high-end apartments will change the dynamic of Toscana Park, and businesses in there can't wait to cash in on all the new tenants.

In the last three months, police say two separate men convicted of murder and released from prison early have killed again. Now, the families of the victims want to change an Indiana law to make sure what happened to them doesn't happen again. Last month Tarrance Lee was charged with murdering his wife. According to police, he had friends help him dispose of the body. Police are still trying to find it. And in June, Steven Clippinger was charged with murdering his brother and sister-in-law while their children were inside their Mishawaka home.