Lagrange County News

Hoosiers looking for work might find some luck in Shipshewana today. A job fair is taking place at the Amish Country Inn on Van Buren Street in Shipshewana from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. Employers from Elkhart and Lagrange counties that are looking to hire will be there.

LAGRANGE COUNTY, Ind. - A LaGrange County grand jury has indicted a Topeka woman on two charges of "neglect of a dependent." In the case of a 16-month-old girl who died in March.

A 41-year-old woman lost her life in a weekend drowning at Dallas Lake, which is located in south-central LaGrange County, northwest of Wolcottville.

A LaGrange County grand jury has indicted 31-year-old Topeka resident Christy Shaffer on two charges of neglect of a dependent.

Kelly Smith, 41, of Wolcottville, was playing Frisbee with the family dog Saturday afternoon on a sandbar in Dallas Lake, in south-central LaGrange County.

LAGRANGE COUNTY, Ind. - A woman drowned while playing frisbee with her dog at a sandbar on Dallas Lake Saturday afternoon.

LAGRANGE COUNTY, Ind. - A woman drowned while playing frisbee with her dog at a sandbar on Dallas Lake Saturday afternoon.

During the months of April and May, the LaGrange County Council on Aging assembled a group of volunteers to install an I-beam in the home of a LaGrange County senior citizen.

When recreational vehicle maker Forest River opened its first plant in this tiny LaGrange County community, the company worried if the town could provide enough workers.

Dr. Alan Wilhere visits the LaGrange County jail to provide dentistry about once a month.

In LaGrange County theya re doing things theya ve never done before to cope with high unemployment.

Freeman Wingard is Amish, one of the so-called plain people, but he was living large.

Long before the sun breaks the horizon, Harlan Miller pushes back the covers, pads into his kitchen to move the cooker filled with apples onto the stove and starts to claim financial independence from the recreational vehicle industry that supported him and his family for 15 years.

Updating this ILB entry from June 9th about Oldenburg's plans, Robin Degner reports in the Goshen News : The new golf cart ordinance for Topeka is in its final stages of completion.

The first Indiana Republican to become a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010 is from LaGrange County.

A bunch of rather aggressive thunderstorms rolled through the other night, knocked out the power, and reminded me of just how much I hate Yahtzee.

Key action: Larry Neff of the Elkhart County Parks Department reported on progress on Phase III of the Pumpkinvine Trail, which goes from downtown Middlebury 2.6 miles to the LaGrange County line.

Eighteen people were arrested when arrest and search warrants were served in a drug sweep by officers from 12 agencies in LaGrange County Tuesday night.

Police in LaGrange County have arrested an 18th suspect in connection to Tuesday night's drug warrant sweep.

After a year-long investigation, police arrested 17 people on meth charges in LaGrange County Tuesday night.