Goshen

Concerns over possible flooding problems this weekend have one city doing something to help homeowners. The Goshen Street Department is offering sandbags this weekend. There is some concern with the heavy snow this week, warming temperatures, and rain this weekend there could be some localized flooding. You can get the sandbags at the Street Department on Steury Avenue... But you have to fill them and transport them yourselves. Again, they don't expect wide-spread flooding, but want to be prepared for localized flooding.

New details about a woman Goshen police say was gunned downed by her former fiance. Friends and family paid their respects Friday to Millicent Morros of Goshen. The 48-year old was killed Monday morning on her way to work by her ex-lover, 51-year-old John Eric Haitsma. WSBT's talked with Millicent's sister, Shelby Engelberg. She shared some thoughts about what happened to Millicent. Engelberg said Millicent enjoyed taking care of her garden and loved her cats - cats Engelberg is now caring for. Police say Haitsma approached Morros when she got out of her car. They talked briefly, then Haitsma, a former Goshen police officer, pulled out a gun and shot her before killing himself.

ELKHART -- The boyfriend of a woman shot and killed by her apparent ex-lover said the gunman kept texting and calling Millicent Morros in recent days and even showed up at her Goshen workplace last week. “I think if she was taking it seriously she probably would've done something different this morning,” said Dennis Butler, who was in a relationship with Morros since early February. Butler said he and Morros talked recently about how Eric Haitsma, who police described as the shooter in Monday's murder-suicide, kept pursuing Morros, even after the two ended what Butler described as a difficult relationship.

A Goshen woman is dead. Police say her ex-boyfriend, a former Goshen cop, shot and killed her Monday morning and then himself. The bodies of 51-year-old John Eric Haitsma and 48-year-old Millicent Morros were found just before 8 a.m. in a parking lot in the 100 block of North 5th Street in Goshen. Police are continuing their investigation and are not commenting on a motive at this time. But Facebook postings by Morros indicate she started dating someone else in February.

GOSHEN - The first round of layoffs at Cequent Performance Products in Goshen will happen on Friday. That's when the union is set to vote on the closure package offered by the company. If they approve the deal, the union would drop a federal lawsuit. If they don't, the two sides would go to arbitration as planned in April. Cequent's parent company, TriMas, announced last year it will close the plant and move production to Mexico. 450 people worked there at that time.

GOSHEN - A major traffic change could be coming to Elkhart County. The state is looking to build a new railroad overpass on Goshen's Northeast side. Indiana's Department of Transportation says the new overpass would be by the tracks near Cottage Avenue and Lincoln Way East. As part of the project, US. 33 would be realigned south of the proposed overpass along the railroad tracks. It would go all the way to the existing stretch of U.S 33 near Goshen High School.

GOSHEN - Hundreds of jobs may be a step closer to leaving Elkhart County. A federal judge on Wednesday ruled Cequent Towing can continue to move equipment out of its Goshen plant as it prepares to move the work to Mexico. The United Steelworkers Union asked for an injunction to stop the company from moving out any equipment or tools until there can be arbitration. The judge said while the court sympathized with union members who may lose their jobs, the union did not establish irreparable harm or the hardship necessary to grant the injunction.

GOSHEN - There's new information on the battle to keep Cequent Towing in Goshen. The company wants to close the plant and move its jobs to Mexico. The United Steelworkers Union took the company to court, saying members felt they were entitled to arbitration. A federal judge recently agreed. The union says an arbitrator has been picked, but there is still no date for negotiations to begin. Workers hope it will be before February 21 when Cequent plans to begin the layoffs.

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) - A man who struck and killed two bicyclists while driving on a northern Indiana road has pleaded guilty to charges of causing death while driving under the influence of drugs. The Elkhart Truth reports ( http://bit.ly/Sjpt5P ) 43-year-old Daniel Snead of Goshen broke down repeatedly during a hearing Friday in an Elkhart County court. Nineteen-year-old Daniel Runion and 18-year-old David Anglemeyer were riding their bicycles east on a county road around 5:50 a.m. June 8, 2012, when they were struck by a westbound vehicle driven by Snead.

Crews were fighting a fire at Gleason Industrial Products in the 600 block of Reynolds Street in Goshen Thursday. The fire broke out around noon. It was first noticed by workers, according to a WSBT photographer at the scene. When they saw smoke coming from the roof, they got out of the building quickly.   Gleason makes exhaust caps for tractors. MAP: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=612+E+Reynolds+St%2C+Goshen%2C+IN&hl=en&sll=41.577388%2C-85.825298&sspn=0.