Despite the downsides of COVID-19, physical activity has increased as people have stayed home.

Due to the impact of COVID-19, much fewer people and goods are traveling along the Region’s roads and highways. Governor Holcomb’s Executive Orders 20-08 and 20-18 (also known as the “Stay-at-home” orders), restricting all but essential travel since March 25, appear to have been heeded throughout the state.

Ripley County Prosecutor Ric Hertel testified virtually on April 14 to a Department of Justice Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice on the issues prosecutors around Indiana and the nation are seeing on domestic violence and sexual assault crimes. Hertel provided the commission with 10 recommendations he had on how to more successfully prosecute those kinds of crimes and took questions from the commission members as well.

Lakeshore Public Media is partnering with local producers to bring three regional documentaries to its streaming platform until May 1.

Lakeshore Public Media is partnering with local producers to bring three regional documentaries to its streaming platform until May 1.

Today, Governors Eric J. Holcomb (IN), Gretchen Whitmer (MI), Mike DeWine (OH), Tony Evers (WI), Tim Walz (MN), JB Pritzker (IL), and Andy Beshear (KY) announced that they will work in close coordination to reopen the economy in the Midwest region.

Governor Eric J. Holcomb today signed an executive order to allow pharmacy students who have successfully completed all required course work to join the fight against COVID-19.

Footlight Players of Michigan City began a yearly scholarship to be awarded to a graduating high-school senior or recent graduate that want to continue an education in the Performing Arts. This year's award will be $1,000.00 which was funded by donations made by the theatre's patrons. It was voted unanimously to title the annual scholarship "The Robert W. Komendera Theater Scholarship" in honor of his 35 years of dedication to the theater.

The Indiana Department of Correction had the first death of an offender at the Westville Correctional Facility, located in Westville, Indiana, late evening on Monday.

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