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WVPE's Jeff Parrot speaks with retired physician Dr. Cynthia Heckman-Davis about the abortion pill
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The Wellfield Community expects to bring 125 homes in the coming years.
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The state recently approved the increase to help pay for new renewable energy projects as well as maintaining the company’s coal plants.
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Nitrous oxide isn’t just “laughing gas” — it’s also a greenhouse gas that’s more than 200 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Corn farmers in Indiana and the rest of the U.S. use a lot of nitrogen fertilizer on their fields — which releases nitrous oxide.
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Commissioners say city's cost increase prompted them to make changes in contract for leaf pickup
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Taken by Jeff Stern-Gilbert on the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail.
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Non-profit groups Altarum and the Citizens Research Council of Michigan say Michigan is in the lower quartile of states, or lower, for many health outcomes, including life expectancy, health status, obesity, heart disease, infant mortality, as well as worse health outcomes affecting people in minority groups.
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Indiana's near-total ban on abortion hasn't officially gone into effect yet, but it's already had a chilling effect on patients there, according to Planned Parenthood of Michigan.
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New law aims to ensure police, fire departments hire, promote or fire based on ‘merit,’ not politicsPolice and firefighter advocates argue politics can creep into public safety departments’ hiring, promotion and discipline decisions when elected local officials have unilateral control over personnel. Some communities put those decisions in the hands of a merit board to make the process more “fair.” A new law will soon push more Indiana communities to adopt such boards.
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Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher is leaving that position next month, heading to the private sector after more than two decades in government service.
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Current presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence laid out his plan to end inflation at the Indiana State Fair on Wednesday. His visit comes as former President Donald Trump has been indicted on four federal criminal charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Indiana physicians are sounding the alarm on the impact they say the state’s impending abortion ban will have not just on pregnant people, but the entire community.
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Providers say it's unfair some crash victims will get care and others won't, even after court rulingThe Michigan Supreme Court ruled Monday that insurance payment caps in the state's 2019 auto no-fault law can't be imposed on people injured before June 11, 2019 — the date the law went into effect.
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Rio Allred, died by suicide in March after being bullied at North Side Middle School
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Edwin Torres Becerril, 16, is charged with killing 16-year-old Luis Hernandez-Acosta
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James DuBois will be Goshen's temporary supertintendent
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The 305's hedonistic reputation is not unearned, but there is artistry in its debauchery, and a young generation reinvesting the rewards of their predecessors' battles against censorship.
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Authorities have been unable to find the bear that killed a woman near Yellowstone National Park late last month. The attack has renewed calls to take grizzlies off the endangered species list.
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NPR's Scott Simon ponders a detail in this week's indictment of former President Trump: When his vice president refused to join a scheme to overturn the 2020 election, Trump called him "too honest."
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Yu & Me Books was a fairly new business when a fire caused substantial damage to the shop. Now, owner Lucy Yu is working to repair not just the physical bookstore but the community around it as well.
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Pakistani police arrested former Prime Minister Imran Khan at his home in the city of Lahore after a court convicted him in an asset concealment case and handed him down a three-year prison sentence.