INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana health officials announced today that Women, Infants and Children programs in all 92 counties are now using electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards instead of paper checks, streamlining the WIC shopping experience.

Kosciusko The following people were booked in the Kosciusko County Jail:  

SACRAMENTO — California could soon become the first state in the country to offer poor families some help with an expensive necessity: diapers.

INDIANAPOLIS — More Indiana families may be eligible for nutrition benefits through the Women, Infants and Children program under revised federal poverty guidelines for 2016. WIC is a supplemental nutrition program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and managed by the Indiana State Department of Health. It provides healthy foods, breastfeeding support and nutrition …read more.

WARSAW — The Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club recently donated $500 to the Young Entrepreneurs Academy. Through various fundraising activities during the year, the Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club raises nearly $30,000 to donate to youth oriented activities. The club also recently donated $1,000 to the Kosciusko County WIC program. Through various fundraising activities during the year, the Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club raises …read more.

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — No medicine works for premature infants like human milk, but many infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit don’t have access to this resource. The Milk Bank, a nonprofit serving NICUs across the Midwest, is now expanding into Northern Indiana so more families can be part of this lifesaving mission. They are …read more.

Alice Harriett Gregorowicz, 93, Syracuse, passed away at 6:08 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, at her home. She was born on Feb. 1, 1921, in East Chicago, Ind., to Joseph and Lola Lutkus. She graduated from Roosevelt High School in East Chicago, received her Bachelor’s degree from College of St. Teresa in Winona, Minn., and …read more.