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Tuesday Apr 30 | Journal and Courier

New Benton County child services director has Lafayette roots

FOWLER - Laura Zimmerman has been appointed director of the Benton County office of Indiana Department of Child Services.

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Mon Apr 29, 2013

Journal and Courier

Faith notes: Week of April 29

The Textual Traces of Religions and Societies panel will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Thursday in room 310 in Stewart Center.

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Related Topix: Purdue University, Fowler, IN, Lafayette, IN

Thu Apr 25, 2013

WLFI-TV West Lafayette

Center closes sooner than expected

A medical center in Benton County has closed its doors a month sooner than patients were expecting.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Earl Park, IN, Oxford, IN, Boswell, IN, Fowler, IN

Fri Apr 19, 2013

Daily Reporter

Spring storm floods Ind. roads, causes evacuation

Officials cautioned residents in southwest Indiana that their weather radios might not be working on Thursday as a massive storm swept into the state like a scythe from its northern end to its southern tip, downing trees, flooding streets and raising warnings that things would likely get worse before the night was over.

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Related Topix: Indiana, Weather, Earl Park, IN, Natural Disasters, Flood

Thu Apr 18, 2013

WLFI-TV West Lafayette

Photos: Earl Park ripped up by weather

We headed west to Benton County after the first wave of storms Thursday, April 18, where plenty of damage was reported due to violent storm activity.

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Related Topix: Earl Park, IN, Weather