WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Rep. Jim Banks (R-3rd) will host a roundtable for federal officials to meet with state and local stakeholders to discuss the long-term future of the 122nd Fighter Wing and the Fort Wayne Air National Guard Base.

MILAN — Italian police say they found the body of missing airman, Staff Sgt. Halex Hale.

FRANKLIN — It was the ultimate Christmas surprise for a woman in Franklin Sunday.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Triton Elementary School honored several veterans at their special program the morning of Nov. 11

PERU — More than three dozen Air Force jets are being moved to northern Indiana’s Grissom Air Reserve Base ahead of Hurricane Joaquin possibly hitting the East Coast.

WARSAW — The Deer Task Force is looking for archers this year to participate in their deer reduction program. The program was designed to control deer overpopulation inside city limits and aims to aid the residents of Warsaw by doing so. This year, the task force will only be accepting veteran Deer Task Force archers …read more.

Purdue University is giving active-duty military members and veterans who are interested in agricultural careers a chance to explore farming through the university’s AgrAbility program. Participants will be invited to tour Blue Yonder Organic Farm in North Salem Aug. 16. There, they will have a chance to speak with owner Sara Creech, a former member of …read more.

Rep. Jackie Walorski met today with a senior U.S. Air Force officer regarding the possible selection of Grissom Air Reserve to base the KC-46A air tanker. The 434th Air Refueling Wing at Grissom is currently one of four finalists under consideration by the U.S. Air Force to be the first Air Force Reserve unit to …read more.

Veterans Day is on Monday, but the Marine Corps is celebrating its 238 anniversary on Sunday, Nov. 10. In honor of that, the American Legion Post 253 in North Webster will be hosting an party. “As a younger veteran I look to the older guys, and I thought we needed to celebrate them more,” says …read more.

Tim Troup, son of Bill and Anne Troup of Milford, officially retired from the Air Force July 31, after serving 24 years and 2 months. The 2 months consisted of vacation time, allowing him to visit back home. “I wasn’t ready to go to college yet,” Troup said of his decision to join the Air …read more.

By LT. CMDR. KIP WRIGHT Public Affairs Officer U.S. Forces-Afghanistan This week Air Force Capt. Michael Phillipp will trade legal pads and his computer for body armor and a Kevlar helmet — and he leaves his office for the firing range and a place behind the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon. Phillipp, who grew up water skiing on …read more.

By STACEY PAGE Editor [email protected] (The following is the second in a series regarding the mysterious disappearance of an Air Force T-33 trainer jet that, on Dec. 8, 1956, went missing. It is believed the T-33 lies at the bottom of a Kosciusko County lake where it has become an underwater grave for its pilot …read more.