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At least 3 tornadoes hit Indiana around midnight; woman dies after tree falls on home
(WISH) — The National Weather Service has confirmed at least three tornadoes hit northern Indiana early Tuesday morning, and included one that traveled through residential areas in Elkhart. The Lake County Coroner’s Office says Laura Nagel, 44, died after a tree fell on the master bedroom of her home in the northwest Indiana town of […]
Storms rip through homes in Elkhart
ELKHART, Ind. -- NIPSCO still has about 21,000 customers off-line in the wake of the Derecho windstorm and two tornados that left some 140,000 homes and businesses in the dark in Northwest Indiana Monday. Indiana Michigan Power is down to about 850 outages, mostly in the hard-hit Elkhart area where...
8 things to do at South Bend's new Indiana Dinosaur Museum
SOUTH BEND ― In just its first weekend of operation, the Indiana Dinosaur Museum complex at 7102 Lincoln Way West drew more than 2,000 visitors, and attendance could continue growing as the attraction is fully developed in the future. The 23,000-square-foot dinosaur museum is the main attraction on the...
Serious effort begins to seek link between 2 major trails for a regional destination
If filled, a roughly 11-mile trail gap east of Mishawaka would create a full path running all the way from Shipshewana to Niles. And that doesn’t include current efforts to extend the trail to Berrien Springs, with hopes of one day also reaching Lake Michigan and Chicago. For now, MACOG recently secured an...
Update on Concord Mall redevelopment to business park
ELKHART, Ind. -- The Concord Mall redevelopment into the Concord Business Park has entered a new phase of construction. R. Yoder Construction shared with ABC57 on Tuesday that their role of clearing the interior of the building space is mostly finished. The new property owners, Industrial Commercial Properties, closed on...
Dinosaur museum opens in Indiana after nearly 7 years
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — About seven years in the making, a dinosaur museum has opened in northern Indiana. The Indiana Dinosaur Museum opened on Friday in South Bend. The museum took almost seven years to make, and $15 million was invested into it. According to their website, the museum...
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