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Over the weekend, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) reported two new local COVID-19 deaths. Read more
An injured Illinois police officer has been released from the intensive care unit (ICU) after fighting for his life for weeks following a shooting that left another officer dead. A suspect in the case was recently arrested at a residence in North Manchester. Read more
Grissom Air Reserve Base (ARB) will not be the next home for the Air Force’s newest tanker aircraft, despite public efforts from the Wabash City Council and other local and state leaders. Read more
Seven hundred eighty-three full-time Indiana University Kokomo students earned chancellor's list or dean’s list honors for the fall 2021 semester, according to a press release. Read more
Ivy Tech Community College has announced the fall 2021 Dean’s List for the Fort Wayne campus and Warsaw site, according to a press release. Read more
Manchester University congratulates 357 undergraduate students who were named to the Fall 2021 Dean's List. Read more
Sports
KOKOMO - Wabash County’s top wrestlers showed out on Friday, Jan. 14 when representatives of Northfield (NHS), Manchester (MHS) and Wabash (WHS) high schools all competed in the Indiana High School Girls Wrestling (IHSGW) 2022 State Finals. Read more
The Manchester University indoor track and field teams were back in action for the second consecutive weekend on the evening of Friday, Jan. 21. The Spartans competed in the Larry Cole Friday Night Invite hosted at Ohio Northern University. Read more
The Manchester University women’s basketball team defeated the Earlham College Quakers by a final score of 80-62 in Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) play on Saturday, Jan. 22. Read more
Visiting Earlham College was able to make a basket with 2.8 seconds left in regulation to secure a narrow 73-71 victory over Manchester inside of Stauffer-Wolfe Arena on Saturday, Jan. 22. Read more
The Manchester University wrestling team competed in the Wabash College Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 22. Read more
Fifth-year senior CJ Hampton, from Hammond and Griffith High School, became the 32nd player in Manchester University men’s basketball history to score 1,000 career points on Wednesday evening as the Spartans took down the Bluffton Beavers by a final score of 84-69. Read more
Opinion
President Joseph Biden’s signature Build Back Better legislation — including provisions for health care, climate change, housing and early childhood education — is ambitious and transformational. It may also be doomed.
When I was a kid in the late 1970s, we had one telephone in our house. It was a drab green color and had a very long chord to allot the user some freedom to roam into the living room or dining room if they were adventurous. We could only talk to grandparents a state away for just a few seconds because the call was so expensive for a blue-collar family. Our aunt in Montana got to say “hello” once a year. This was life under the regime of a private monopoly mandated and regulated by the government.
A criminal whose guilt is obvious gets off on a technicality, and the great debate begins. You’ve undoubtedly heard it, in real life on the news or in detective fiction in print or on the screen.
