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Special prosecutor sought in attack after bus fatality sentence

January 13, 2020 | Associated Press

A special prosecutor should be appointed to determine whether a northern Indiana woman will be charged in an attack on a woman who had just been sentenced in a crash that killed her three children at a school bus stop, county prosecutors said. Fulton County prosecutors asked a judge in a filing Thursday to appoint a special prosecutor, saying they cannot be unbiased in deciding whether Brittany Ingle should be charged in the Dec. 18 attack on Alyssa Shepherd.

Indiana school bus safety program nets nearly 2,700 tickets

January 2, 2020 | Associated Press

Indiana police departments issued nearly 2,700 tickets and 1,400 warnings for unsafe driving around school bus stops and routes during a two-month enforcement program, state officials announced Thursday.

Indiana woman gets 4 years for fatal school bus stop crash

December 19, 2019 | Associated Press

An Indiana woman who plowed her pickup truck into four children, killing three of them, while they crossed a highway to board a school bus was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison.

Indiana woman’s trial for 3 bus stop deaths gets underway

October 17, 2019 | Associated Press

Testimony is underway in the trial of a northern Indiana woman who allegedly killed three children by striking them with a pickup truck as they crossed a two-lane state highway to board a school bus.

Jury selection begins in woman’s trial for bus stop deaths

October 16, 2019 | Associated Press

Jury selection is underway in the trial of a northern Indiana woman accused of killing three children in Rochester by striking them with a pickup truck as they crossed a two-lane state highway to board a school bus.

Reversal: Man can’t build concrete seawall on lake property

August 1, 2019 | Katie Stancombe

A man’s permission to build a concrete wall on his northern Indiana lakefront property has been halted now that the Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court’s reversal of his denied application.

Woman pleads not guilty in students’ bus stop deaths

November 15, 2018

A Rochester woman accused of striking and killing three children with a pickup truck as they crossed a highway to board a school bus entered a preliminary not guilty plea Thursday.

Woman charged in bus stop crash that killed 3 due in court

November 15, 2018

A Rochester woman charged in a school bus stop crash that killed three children is due in court for her first hearing in the case.

Officials warn flood victims in the state to be wary of disaster opportunists

March 20, 2018

Authorities are now warning those reeling from the floods that ravaged northern and southern Indiana against these scammers.

Applications open for coming Court of Appeals vacancy

January 24, 2018

Northern Indiana judges and lawyers may now apply to succeed long-serving Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Michael Barnes, Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush announced Wednesday.

Veterans court studied for Cass, Fulton, Howard, Miami counties

November 27, 2017

Howard County officials say they hope to establish a court where military veterans from four counties can receive treatment or enter a diversion program rather than go to jail for offenses.

No advice from counsel leads to post-conviction relief

December 2, 2014

A mother’s refusal to convey her son’s threats of harm possibly saved the man from violating Indiana’s intimidation statute.

Parallel parenting provision divides COA

April 22, 2014

In reversing a trial court’s modification of the custody agreement even though neither parent requested a change in custody, the Indiana Court of Appeals split over how much discretion a Parallel Parenting Time Order grants a court.

Habeas writ reverses resentencing from divided COA

August 6, 2013

A Fulton County man who filed a writ of habeas corpus claiming he was falsely imprisoned won a reversal of a clarified sentencing order Tuesday, with one Court of Appeals judge saying he should be freed entirely.

Former senior judge faces disciplinary proceedings

February 25, 2013

A former senior judge in northern Indiana faces disciplinary action for charges that she had a sexual relationship with a client to whom she was appointed as a public defender.

Appellate judges to go to Rochester, Upland for arguments

April 15, 2011

On Tuesday, two panels of Indiana Court of Appeals judges will travel north to hear arguments.

Company hit with class action suits

April 12, 2011

Two class action lawsuits have been filed against an Indianapolis firm that had offered estate planning services to people. Now, the Indiana Supreme Court is considering what happens next against the company it found a year ago had engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.

Law firm files class-action lawsuit for estate planning UPL

January 25, 2011

A Logansport law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against an Indianapolis company that the state’s highest court last year determined engaged in the Unauthorized Practice of Law, suing on behalf of thousands of residents for what attorneys estimate could be $10 million to $20 million in damages.

Actual notice denies bona fide purchaser defense

October 12, 2010

The Indiana Court of Appeals today reversed an interlocutory order and remanded for the trial court to grant prejudgment possession of farm equipment to a company that had security interest in it even though it had been traded to another company.

Reception honors retiring Fulton Circuit judge

January 1, 2009

The public is invited to attend a reception honoring Fulton Circuit Judge Douglas B. Morton as he retires from the bench.

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