NORTH MANCHESTER — Ivy Tech Community College and Manchester University are partnering to create opportunities for Ivy Tech Honors College students. Manchester is now reserving two seats annually in its Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) or its dual degree program that grants a Pharm.D. and a Master of Science in Pharmacogenomics in the same four-year period …read more.

FORT WAYNE — Manchester University is expanding its pharmacogenomics education program with an online graduate certificate designed for health care professionals seeking to enhance, expand and differentiate their practice. The program begins in fall semester 2020, said a news release from Manchester University. Pharmacogenomics (PGx), a major component of personalized medicine or precision medicine, tailors …read more.

Jeffery Allen Evans SYRACUSE — A warrant was recently served on a Michigan City man for his alleged involvement in a 2016 theft at CVS Pharmacy in Syracuse. Jeffery Allen Evans, 46, Michigan City, is charged with theft, a class A misdemeanor; and sentence enhancement theft, a level 6 felony. On Aug. 14, 2016, an …read more.

WARSAW—A Mentone man was sentenced today in Kosciusko Circuit Court after robbing the Warsaw CVS store last year. Jesse Ray Combs, 27, 3705 S. SR 25, Mentone, was charged with robbery with a deadly weapon, a level 3 felony; and possession of a narcotic drug, a level 3 felony. According to the affidavit of probable …read more.

SYRACUSE — A request for a variance for CVS was approved at the regular meeting of the Syracuse Board of Zoning Appeals Thursday, Oct. 19. The engineering firm, Foresite Group, requested the petition for a variance. It wants to allow 64 parking spaces, where the property was previously approved for 67 spaces, per a previous …read more.

WARSAW — A ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony took place at Otis R. Bowen Center, Tuesday, July 18, for the new on-site pharmacy at the Harrison Street location. Genoa, a QoL Healthcare Company, announced the grand opening event of their 354th full service, on-site pharmacy, which is located in the Bowen Center. This is …read more.

WARSAW — A Chapman Lake man and a Macy man were arrested on charges of removing items from a shed at a cottage. Kurtis Michael Gunkel, 41, 55 EMS C29A Lane, Warsaw, was arrested early Monday morning and has been initially charged with theft, a level 6 felony. Eric Warren Swick, 35, 13663 N. Macy …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis resident has concocted an all-natural lip balm that is going nationwide in CVS pharmacies all over the U.S. Dan Gosling, creator of ChopSaver lip balm, never thought his invention would get to where it is today, but his all-natural recipe is now being sold alongside name-brand lip balms. “ChopSaver is an …read more.

CORYDON — In 2010, comedy duo Rhett and Link from YouTube created this hilarious commercial for a local drugstore called Butt Drugs in Corydon. Butt Drugs is a family-owned pharmacy that has been around since 1952.

Employees of a pharmacy in Crawfordsville are attempting to find the owner of a ring found inside the store. The well-worn United States Army ring was found over the weekend of June 27 and 28 at the CVS pharmacy located at 713 South Washington Street, Crawfordsville. Anyone with information as to the ring’s owner can …read more.

Tanner Leonard, 23, 322 South Washington St., Warsaw, was arrested Friday evening after a warrant was issued on Jan. 20 for his involvement in the Jan. 1 break-in at Dollar General, and theft of liquor from CVS on the same day. Leonard has been charged with aiding, inducing or causing burglary, a level 5 felony; …read more.

Chance Nicholas Beck, 17, of Macy, and formerly of Akron, passed away Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, at his residence. He was born on June 23, 1997, Whitley County, to Andrew E. Beck and Julie A. Carr. Chance was a Tippecanoe Valley High School Junior. In earlier years he played baseball, basketball and football. For many years and currently he …read more.

Barak Chandler, 34, of Macy, Ind., passed away at 12:34 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 19, at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, Ind. On June 11, 1979, Barak was born in Rochester, Ind., to Larry Fear and Sherry Taylor Fear Chandler. Barak and Jenifer Blair were married on June 4, 2005, in Jacksonville, Fla. Barak is …read more.

This week’s crime of the week comes from the files of the Warsaw police Department. On Monday, July 9, Warsaw Police were called to CVS Pharmacy, 100 N. Detroit St., Warsaw, where it was reported two armed men held employees by gunpoint and stole an undisclosed amount of drugs. Police say the two masked suspected …read more.