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SOUTH BEND — Two peregrine falcon eggs hatched this week atop County-City Building, and a third could be on its way. The adult pair of falcons that live downtown had four eggs this year in their nesting box on the 14-story building. Carol Riewe, a local naturalist and raptor rehabilitator who follows the birds, said one chick hatched Thursday morning and another hatched this morning. A third egg was damaged, she said, and they’re still waiting to see what happens with the fourth egg. Zephyr, the adult male falcon, lost his right foot earlier this spring in an apparent trap injury.

One man dead. Three people injured. Four people in jail.  It's all the outcome of a fight turned deadly late Thursday night in Goshen. Daniel Heflin, 21, of Goshen is accused of murder.  His mother talked with WSBT Friday morning. Sherry Heflin said someone went to her son's home and asked him and his girlfriend, Elisa Horton, to help with a fight happening at an apartment complex in the 600 blk of River Ave. She claimed someone told her son a 17-year-old girl was being beaten by a family member.  "They came to help, that's all they did," Sherry Heflin told WSBT.  Art Vargas said he witnessed the incident from his front porch across the street.  "There were shots fired and that's when I went back in and told my wife, 'You need to get somebody out here because I thought I heard some gunshots.  This is escalating really quick,'" he recalled.

MISHAWAKA - We have new information on the closing of a local salon. Ross Fisher, the former owner of Ja Ross Salon and Spa tells WSBT the current owner stopped making payments. So, Ross went in and repossessed all of the equipment he owned. The salon on University Drive in Mishawaka suddenly closed over the weekend. Ross wouldn't say who the new owner is or how much they owed. He also said there are a lot of rumors out there, including about him honoring gift cards, and that's not true.

It's been almost one year since he was murdered in the most brutal way imaginable, but the earth around Tramelle Sturgis' cemetery plot is still fresh - much like the emotional wounds for his mother, Tiffany Townsend. "Tramelle was just amazing," Townsend said, tears streaming down her cheeks.  "I miss him. Very, very much. " Her heartache began November 4, 2011.  Townsend said she woke up around 6 a.m. to a phone call from Dellia Castile, Tramelle's paternal grandmother, crying on the phone and telling her that her son was dead.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A Fort Wayne man accused of using a camera hidden in his shoe to take video images under women's skirts at an Indianapolis shopping mall has been found guilty of four counts of attempted child exploitation and one count of resisting arrest. The Indianapolis Star reports ( http://indy.st/wJo6o9 ) a jury deliberated two hours Tuesday before finding 42-year-old David Delagrange guilty. He was arrested in February 2010 at Castleton Square Mall.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY - A St. Joseph County Church is in steep financial trouble. Little Flower Catholic Church on Ironwood needs more money coming in to continue its services. If the church doesn't get the money it needs in 8 months, it may face major cutbacks. The church says it's had some major unexpected expenses, but they also say less families are attending the parish. WSBT is told about 700 families attend the church right now. And all 700 of those need to contribute to keep this church afloat.

A popular restaurant in New Buffalo will re-open Memorial Day weekend. Casey's Bar and Grill closed down suddenly New Year's Day after a dispute between the owner and the landlord of the building. NB Developers filed an eviction notice against the owner of Casey's John Bertuca, LLC. A trial date was set in the case, but the parties reach a deal with week. Tom Jennings was the long-time manager of the previous restaurant and has been re-hired by the new owner.

ELKHART COUNTY - Police have arrested two people for one of the handful of cigarette store robberies over the last two weeks in Elkhart County. Nicholas Chaplin, 24, and Abigail Pifer, 19, of Elkhart are behind bars for the holdup at Low Bob's on Cassopolis Street near Simonton Lake on January 25. They were arrested on February 1. Chaplin is being held in the Elkhart County Jail on $100,000 bond, while Pifer is in custody on $75,000 bond. Since their arrest, two other tobacco stories have been robbed, including the same Low Bob's.

A nationwide drug ring allegedly run by two Indiana prison inmates has major local connections. A federal indictment unsealed by the U.S. Attorney's office after FBI raids across the state Wednesday named 40 people purportedly involved in the scheme. At least six people named on the indictment have roots in Elkhart County, including one of the drug ring's two leaders, who is accused of coordinating the sale and delivery of meth and PCP while he's been an inmate at the Westville correctional facility in LaPorte County.

A court will soon start trying to answer the question: Should a grandmother share responsibility for the death of her grandson at the hands of his abusive father? A jury has been selected in the Dellia Castile trial. Jurors are preparing themselves for what could be more than a week of gut-wrenching testimony and evidence which may include horrific photos of the 2011 crime scene where 10-year-old Tramelle Sturgis was killed. Tramelle's father, Terry Sturgis, is serving a 140-year sentence for murdering his son and brutally beating the boy's 8 and 14-year-old brothers.

On a hot summer Saturday, more than a thousand spectators crowded Tiscornia Beach in St. Joseph to watch a World War II re-enactment. Dozens of volunteers dressed up in authentic military uniforms and re-enacted the European and Pacific Beach landings and air attacks on Iwo Jima.  The presentation included a Yankee Air Force B-17 WWII  Bomber, Korean M*A*S*H helicopter as well as Yankee Air Force C-47 Skytrain, B-17 Flying...

A Knox man was arrested Monday and charged with four counts of child molestation. Police say on July 8 a juvenile told them 43-year-old Steven L. O'Bryant molested him over a two week period while O'Bryant lived in his home. A warrant was issued for O'Bryant on August 17 and on the 20 th he was arrested by Fort Wayne police. O'Bryant was transported and booked into the Starke County Jail in Knox where he is awaiting arraignment.

MICHIGAN CITY -- Authorities are hoping science can shed light on the identity of human remains found in a wooded area west of Michigan City. La Porte County Chief Deputy Coroner Mark Huffman said Monday samples from the decomposed remains have been submitted to the Indiana State Police laboratory for DNA testing. Huffman said he will also transport the remains to a forensic pathologist in Tippecanoe County later in the week. Originally, he was going to have the remains immediately examined by a forensic anthropologist.