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• La Porte Police Reminding Public To Use Their Medication Drop Box

  The La Porte Police are reminding residents, to not forget unused/ expired medications. The La Porte Police Department has a medication drop box located in the front lobby and it can be accessed during normal business hours. LPPD also mentioned that you should not dispose unwanted medications by throwing in the trash or flushing, where it can end up in the groundwater or drinking water supply.

• DNR: Avoid planting invasive pear trees

  Gov. Eric Holcomb has proclaimed this week, April 8-12, as Invasive Species Awareness Week in Indiana, an important reminder for Hoosiers to watch for potentially devastating pests.Ornamental pear trees, most commonly known as Bradford pears, have been a popular landscaping tree in Indiana for decades.So popular that they are crowding out native Indiana trees.For that reason, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources encourages homeowners and landscapers to avoid planting such Read more…

• March Indiana Employment Report

  Indiana’s unemployment rate stands at 3.6 percent for March and remains lower than the national rate of 3.8 percent. With the exception of one month when it was equal (October 2014), Indiana’s unemployment rate now has been below the U.S. rate for more than five years. The monthly unemployment rate is a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicator that reflects the number of unemployed people seeking employment within the Read more…

• A former Purdue Northwest professor leaves multimillion dollar estate gift

  When Dr. Nils K. Nelson, organic chemistry professor, retired from Purdue University Northwest (PNW) in 1991, he never considered leaving the place he loved. There were opportunities to relocate closer to family, but for Nelson, PNW’s Hammond Campus was home.Leaving an eternal mark at PNW may have been what Nelson, who taught 29 years at the university, had in mind when he planned a multimillion dollar gift from his estate—though Read more…

• Walorski Announces Legislation to Improve School Bus Traffic Safety

  U.S. Reps. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) and Julia Brownley (D-Calif.) this week introduced bipartisan legislation to improve student safety by examining ways to prevent dangerous, illegal passing of school buses when children are present. The bipartisan Stop for School Buses Act (H.R. 2218) would improve efforts to prevent illegal passing by directing the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to conduct a comprehensive review of existing laws and programs, recommend best practices, Read more…

• Video caught woman dumping 7 puppies behind California store

  Authorities are trying to identify a woman captured by security cameras tossing seven newborn puppies into a dumpster in Southern California

• New evidence gets mistrial in Montana senator’s nephew death

• Polygamist lawyers in Utah face bar investigation

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