Freddie Rhodes says he doesn’t remember much about his arrest. He remembers being put in a squad car. He remembers being in a room with two detectives. He remembers the pain in his face and body, asking to go to a hospital, and being ignored. Rhodes was charged with felony murder Sept. 11 after an alleged attempted drug robbery in which 18-year-old Dre Tarrious Rodgers was fatally shot.

After she was kidnapped from her Elkhart County home and raped in 1988 at age 10, Erika Monroe assumed she’d never learn the identity of her abductor. “I reconciled myself to the fact that I would never know who it was in my lifetime,” she said. “I would have to wait and ... when this person died that he’d have to face God.”.

On the morning of Tuesday, May 21, 1974, neighbors noticed that Paul and Julia Bonfiglio had not opened their confectionary shop, South Side Sweets, 813 S. Main St., at their usual time. The neighbors contacted the couple’s son, Frank, and he headed over to their home at 107 Hickory St. (now Martin Luther King Jr.

On a sunny summer afternoon on West Garfield Avenue, children played in front yards and on sidewalks while adults gathered on front porches to talk. Then one child glanced down the street and yelled, “Twelve!”. Another child followed suit. Then the others. The word, a slang term to signify police presence, rippled quickly from one voice to the next down the sidewalk.

(Video of news conference with Indiana State Police Sgt. Trent Smith) Armed with a semi-automatic handgun and a large knife, a local man shot and killed two women in an Elkhart grocery store before being shot and killed by Elkhart police officers Wednesday night, Jan. 15. The unidentified shooter, described as a 22-year-old white male from the Elkhart area, entered the main doors of Martin's Super Market, 3900 East Bristol Street, just after 10 p.m., according to Indiana State Police.

Editor’s note: This article is first in a series on the use and impact of synthetic marijuana in Elkhart County. Faith Mission of Elkhart has always tested residents for drug and alcohol use. Everyone who comes to the shelter undergoes a Breathalyzer test upon arrival and is asked to take a drug test when staff members suspect the person may be under the influence of another substance.

As the sun rose Tuesday morning, a crowd gathered at the Bay City Boat Lines dock in downtown Bay City to board the Princess Wenonah.The Princess Wenonah took passengers on a cruise down the Saginaw River to greet the USS Edson as she arrived at her temporary dock at Wirt Stone Dock.

SAGINAW, MI - Saginaw Mayor Greg Branch said the shootings of 4-year-old Miyona Alexander on Monday and 12-year-old Tamaris "T.J." Steward Jr. early Thursday morning are indicative of deeper problems within the community. "We're still trying to get a handle on what the problem is," Branch said.

SAGINAW, MI - Arthur Hill High School alumnus Paul Ruiz, 63, decided to take an unconventional route to his 45th class reunion next week. Ruiz, a former Marine and retired worker at Hill Air Force Base in Layton, Utah, is on the home stretch of his 1,300-mile solo bike ride from a small town near Casper, Wyo., to Saginaw for a family reunion and his 45th high school reunion.

Forest River RV has agreed to a settlement with a penalty of up to $35 million after federal regulators say the company didn’t properly report safety data and recalls on some of its recreational vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday, July 9, announced the agreement following a nine-month audit of Forest River’s reporting of safety data to the administration as required by the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966.

A one-year-old Elkhart startup with just eight employees is building a machine to be used in the world’s first permanent storage operation for nuclear waste. Bond Technologies Inc,1353 Wade Drive, builds high-tech friction-stir welding machines that can join metals without melting them, creating a seal much stronger than traditional welding methods, said founder and CEO Tim Haynie.

One of the newest social media apps wasn’t started in Silicon Valley or New York City. It’s built by Elkhart men working out of a Mishawaka apartment. Mike Miller, a 2008 Elkhart Central grad, and Mike Gaeddert, a 2006 Concord grad, helped launch Dayo, a photo sharing app for iPhone. They worked with Gaeddert’s cousin, David, in Kansas to launch the app in February.

THOMAS TOWNSHIP, MI - Almost 200 people gathered Wednesday evening at the Mid Michigan Singh Sabha for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of the six killed and three injured in an attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisc. on Aug. 5.

On Monday afternoon, a large red dumpster parked in the driveway of the Monitor Township home Diane Regulski shares with her husband Mike. It was filled to the brim with the contents of their basement: a sodden jumble of furniture and electronics ruined by the water.

SAGINAW, MI - Stores are already beginning to roll out their back-to-school advertising and students, but Shawn Lent's back-to-school shopping list this year includes a suitcase instead of a backpack.

CHESANING, MI - Averi Sue Copes, 13, and Amy Hamilton, 17, have been working for months to prepare for the Saginaw County Fair, which kicks off Tuesday. The two friends and members of the Brady 4-H Club have raised chickens to compete at the fair for years, but this year, the chickens will accomplish more than earning a ribbon or a high bid at auction.