Dozens of northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio students received first-semester academic honors at the University of Indianapolis, the university has announced.

Students named to the Dean’s List completed at least 12 credit hours and earned a grade-point average of 3.7 or higher on a 4.0 ...

Twenty-one people were arrested early Thursday on drug charges as a result of an investigation by police in Adams and Wells counties.

The Adams, Allen and Wells county sheriff’s departments; the Berne, Bluffton, Decatur and Geneva police departments and the Indiana State Police began ...

A 58-year-old Bluffton man died in a single-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon in Huntington County.

Timothy Brown was traveling westbound in a 2000 Dodge pickup truck on Shafer Road, east of Fredreick Street, outside of Warren when the truck entered a curve and left the road, rolling over at ...

Crews are working on a water-main break on Indiana 1 in Bluffton, Bluffton police said today.

They said the break is just north of Kentucky Fried Chicken in the southbound lane.

Hanover College’s volleyball team has been picked win its third straight league title in preseason voting by Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference coaches. The HCAC Preseason Volleyball Poll was announced Friday with the Panthers taking the top spot for the second consecutive year. Hanover ...

The National Weather Service has issued urban and small stream flood advisories for parts of northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio.

An advisory was issued until noon for parts of Allen, Adams, Huntington, Wells and Van Wert counties, and until 12:15 p.m. for parts of Williams and Defiance ...

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Hanover’s baseball secured a split in a conference doubleheader with Bluffton at home on Friday. The Panthers won the opener 3-1 before falling 7-5 in game two. David Herrmann (5-2) allowed just one run on seven hits with three strikeouts and three walks in a complete-game effort for the ...

One witness to an alleged abduction in Bluffton on Tuesday night said her car was nearly hit as Sar Tharlaw Doh, 20, raced out of the parking lot of Inventure Foods with his wife, Josephine, barely inside the vehicle.

The witness put the time of the incident about 10:15 p.m. She said the ...

A Fort Wayne man was arrested in Ohio early today after his wife told police he abducted her from her workplace Tuesday night.

Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, the Allen County Sheriff’s Department asked Bluffton police to check on a woman who was last seen on her break outside of her place of ...

Bluffton High School Principal Steve Baker has long invited others : including state lawmakers : to try his job for a day.

He continues that tradition Thursday, this time with someone familiar with running schools: Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick.

McCormick’s ...

Buckhorn Inc. has informed Indiana officials of plans to close its Bluffton factory, putting 86 employees out of work, according to paperwork received Monday.

The Journal Gazette first reported the closing March 8, but it was unclear at that time how many workers the plant employed. ...

Hanover’s men’s basketball team survived a late rally from Bluffton to pick up a 65-64 win on the road in the Panthers’ regular-season finale. The Panthers, ranked 22nd in the D3Hoops.com national poll, received a pair of free throws from Colin Smith with 32 seconds remaining to go in front ...

Hanover’s women’s basketball team dropped its regular-season finale, 83-68 at Bluffton on Saturday. The Panthers hung tough with Bluffton for three quarters, trailing 17-15 after the first, 31-30 at halftime and 55-51 after three quarters. But the host Beavers went on a 28-17 run in the fourth ...

A Bluffton man has died after he was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle Sunday morning.

About 4:30 a.m., Christopher M. Penrod, 24, of Bluffton, was driving the ATV in a field near County Roads 600 North and 100 West in Wells County when he hit a metal post and was thrown, Indiana ...

A Bluffton man has died after he was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle Sunday morning.

About 4:30 a.m., Christopher M. Penrod, 24, of Bluffton, was driving the ATV in a field near County Roads 600 North and 100 West in Wells County when he hit a metal post and was thrown, Indiana ...

A Bluffton man has died after he was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle Sunday morning.

About 4:30 a.m., Christopher M. Penrod, 24, of Bluffton, was driving the ATV in a field near County Roads 600 North and 100 West in Wells County when he hit a metal post and was thrown, Indiana ...

A Bluffton man was in critical condition after he was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle Sunday morning.

Around 4:30 a.m., Christopher M. Penrod, 24, was driving the ATV in a field near County Roads 600 North and 100 West in Wells County when he hit a metal post and was thrown, the Indiana ...

BLUFFTON – A Bluffton woman was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison in the death of one of her children who was beaten and set on fire two years ago.

Breanna Arnold, 22, had been charged with several different crimes, including neglect of a dependent, obstruction of justice, abuse of a ...

BLUFFTON - A Bluffton woman was sentenced today to 20 years in prison in the death of one of her children who was beaten and set on fire two years ago.

Breanna Arnold, 22, had been charged with several different crimes, including neglect of a dependent, obstruction of justice, abuse of a ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Craigville man who died at a hospital about two hours after Wells County sheriff’s deputies used Taser stun guns to subdue him early Sunday.

Detectives with the Indiana State Police in Fort Wayne are investigating the death at the request of the ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Craigville man who died at a hospital about two hours after Wells County sheriff’s deputies used Taser stun guns to subdue him early Sunday.

Detectives with the Indiana State Police in Fort Wayne are investigating the death at the request of the ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Craigville man who died at a hospital about two hours after Wells County sheriff’s deputies used Taser stun guns to subdue him early Sunday.

Detectives with the Indiana State Police in Fort Wayne are investigating the death at the request of the ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Craigville man who died at a hospital about two hours after Wells County sheriff’s deputies used Taser stun guns to subdue him early Sunday.

Detectives with the Indiana State Police in Fort Wayne are investigating the death at the request of the ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Craigville man who died at a hospital about two hours after Wells County sheriff’s deputies used Taser stun guns to subdue him early today.

Detectives with the Indiana State Police in Fort Wayne are investigating the death at the request of the ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Craigville man who died at a hospital about two hours after Wells County sheriff’s deputies used Taser stun guns to subdue him early Sunday.

Detectives with the Indiana State Police in Fort Wayne are investigating the death at the request of the ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Craigville man who died at a hospital about two hours after Wells County sheriff’s deputies used Taser stun guns to subdue him early today.

Detectives with the Indiana State Police in Fort Wayne are investigating the death at the request of the ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Craigville man who died at a hospital about two hours after Wells County sheriff’s deputies used Taser stun guns to subdue him early Sunday.

Detectives with the Indiana State Police in Fort Wayne are investigating the death at the request of the ...

A road-rage incident in Bluffton has police asking for the public’s help in finding a witness to the event.

Around 6 p.m. Wednesday, there was a physical altercation between a man and a woman near the intersection of Market and Marion streets in Bluffton, a ...

A road-rage incident in Bluffton has police asking for the public’s help in finding a witness to the event.

Around 6 p.m. Wednesday, there was a physical altercation between a man and a woman near the intersection of Market and Marion streets in Bluffton, a ...

For the second-straight year, Hanover’s volleyball team tore through the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference beating every foe in its path. But for the second-straight year, the Panthers’ season did not include a tournament crown. Bluffton pulled off a late third-game rally and then ran ...

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Hanover’s cross country teams both placed third in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships held Saturday on Hanover’s campus. The men scored 68 points to trail champion Manchester, which scored 59 points and beat runner-up Rose-Hulman on a sixth-runner tie-breaker. The women ...

Hanover’s volleyball team wrapped up an unbeaten run through the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference with a pair of wins in northwestern Ohio over the weekend. The Panthers rallied to beat Bluffton 3-1 (21-25, 25-15, 25-23, 25-22) to clinch a share of the HCAC regular-season crown on ...

Hanover’s men’s soccer team beat Mount St. Joseph 1-0 in a defensive battle on Saturday to set up a conference championship showdown on Saturday in Hanover. The Panthers, winner of four straight, are 7-1 in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference and stand one game behind league leader ...

Efforts to restore the Ouabache State Park fire tower recently received a boost from ProFed Credit Union, which presented the Friends of Ouabache State Park group with $500 toward its restoration.

The credit union is also accepting donations for the project at its Bluffton and Decatur ...

An Indiana state trooper is being credited for saving the life of a rural Bluffton man who became unresponsive from a possible heroin overdose, state police said.

Trooper Anthony Repass and Wells County sheriff’s deputies were called to the 8700 block of south Indiana 1 around 3:30 p.m. ...

Law enforcement divers fished five guns out of the St. Joseph River late Friday morning, contraband believed stolen from a Bluffton residence this month.

According to Bluffton Police Detective Andrew Ellis, there was a home invasion robbery late Aug. 1 after a man used Craigslist to ...

Divers from the Indiana State Police assisted the Bluffton Police Department and other law enforcement agencies Friday morning in recovering items stolen from an Aug. 1 home invasion robbery on White Bridge Court in Bluffton.

Divers from the Indiana State Police assisted the Bluffton Police Department and other law enforcement agencies Friday morning in recovering items stolen from an Aug. 1 home invasion robbery on White Ridge Court in Bluffton.