There were fewer reports of Indiana farm-related deaths in 2011 than the previous year, including none involving children for the first time in 13 years, according to a new Purdue University report. The Indiana Farm Fatality Summary reports that 16 people died in farm-related incidents in 2011, down from 23 in 2010. The number of …read more.

On Oct. 27, at the Parkview Huntington Community Gala, Parkview Huntington Hospital and Parkview Health System announced that the hospital will develop a comprehensive center for the treatment of autism, to open in early 2013. The Parkview Huntington Hospital Autism Center will provide therapeutic and rehabilitation services for children age 2 to 18 and support …read more.

It’s Teen Read Week at the North Webster Public Library and North Webster teens have been battling the teens of the South Whitley Library in a Read-Off. Both groups are vying for the title of having read the most books. The winning library gets treated to a pizza party provided by the “losing” library. Summaries …read more.

Department of Child Services is investigating the welfare of two young children who reside in a Syracuse apartment where a methamphetamine lab was located on Thursday evening. At about 7 p.m. Syracuse Police officers went to 303 E. Palm Dr. on an anonymous drug tip where they located an active meth lab inside a garage …read more.