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Pete Buttigieg, the South Bend Indiana mayor and 2020 presidential hopeful, was at an Iowa Democratic Party barbecue in Carroll County on Thursday. While Buttigieg was taking questions, a man named Dave Bagley told Buttigieg that recent trouble between South Bend’s police department and its local Black community would improve if…
Rameil Pitamber was a 17-year-old honor student when his father died. After his death, Pitamber attempted to rob a Little Caesar’s restaurant at gunpoint in Avon, Ind. He was arrested, convicted for armed robbery, and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Pitamber was released early from prison on good behavior,…
Eric Logan, a 54-year-old father, was fatally shot by an officer responding to reports of a man breaking into cars in downtown South Bend, Ind. According to authorities, Logan pulled out a knife and lunged at the officer, who shot him once in the abdomen and killed him. But there’s…
The new majority Supreme Court had its first chance to take on an abortion rights case coming from the states and it compromised on it. The hotly-contested case comes from Indiana. On Tuesday, The Supreme Court upheld a part of Indiana’s 2016 law that places new restrictions on the disposal…
South Bend Mayor and Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg used a campaign rally on Saturday to address concerns that running as a white man from a privileged background could keep him from understanding female and minority issues. “I may be part of the L.G.B.T.Q. community. But being a gay man…
Over 12,000 people and counting have signed a Change.Org petition started by the father of a transgender student in Fort Wayne, Ind., attending Homestead High School. The student has been going by the name Wyatt for the last three years at his high school. He is now a senior and…
The Elkhart School District of Indiana just started saving their wasted food and repackaging and freezing it. Instead of simply throwing the uneaten food in the trash like they were doing, they are sending it home with at-risk students so they for sure have something to eat on the weekends. The school…
Web searches, donations and social media engagement explode. Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Ind., a well-educated millennial and Afghanistan veteran who’s gay, is finding favor with Democratic voters. Buttigieg would be the youngest U.S. president ever, if elected. In a crowded race of 16 Democrats running for the Oval Office, Buttigieg,…
Deborah Cantwell, age 63, was arrested for leaving a racist note, which targeted their Black son, on the door of her new neighbor’s home. An unidentified man called deputies to the new home he and his family were moving into on Thursday in Howard County because he found a disgusting…
Indiana’s Black Legislative Caucus wants to teach Huntington Senator, Andy Zay, a thing or two about what it really means to experience racism as a Black person living in America. Members of the organization have invited the politician to sit down and explain his recently surfaced Facebook messages, which included…
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