MUNSTER — The NorthWest Indiana Bancorp, the parent company for Peoples Bank, today announced that the Board of Directors of the Bancorp declared a dividend of $0.22 per share payable on October 4, 2013, with a record date of September 27, 2013. The NorthWest Indiana Bancorp’s common stock is traded on the OTC Bulletin Board under […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Smoke-free restaurants and bar laws are good for health, and a new study published in the scientific journal Preventing Chronic Disease finds that a statewide smoke-free law would not be expected to harm the restaurant and bar industry. This conclusion is based on an aggregate analysis of all the available data from local

INDIANAPOLIS — Ice Miller LLP welcomes is pleased to announce that eight Firm attorneys were named the Best Lawyers® 2014 “Lawyer of the Year” in their respective practice area and location. (Copyright 2013 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). The 2014 Ice Miller honorees include: Michael H. Boldt: Indianapolis – Employment Law – Management Amy

The jobs report released today underscores the fact that we still need all macroeconomic guns blazing to boost the economy. The labor market added 169,000 jobs in August, and a downward revision of 74,000 to earlier months’ data brought the average monthly growth rate of the last three months to just 148,000 jobs. At this

MISHAWAKA — Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center (SJRMC) will honor the contributions of The Sisters of the Holy Cross who served our country as the first Navy nurses with a special ceremony on September 9, 2013. These nurses selflessly cared for the sick and injured soldiers of both sides during the darkest hours of the

LA PORTE – The public is invited to join Indiana University Health and special guest Dr. Wes Youngberg for a free community event. Dr. Youngberg, DrPH, MPH, CNS, FACLM, will present “Turning your good genes on and your bad genes off: Mastering your genetic risk with lifestyle and nutritional medicine” on Wednesday, Sept. 25 at the

Chicago – The chic wine lounge ENO, located at Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park, 200 N. Columbus Drive, will feature an autumn series of “ENOversity” education classes. Perfect for wine novices and aficionados, ENOversity offers a casual, educational and fun tasting experience for all. Each ENOversity class features fun, interactive, and unpretentious instruction on the dynamics

Drought has crept back into part of Indiana, reflecting weeks of dry conditions following a wet winter and spring that eliminated the remnants of the devastating drought of 2012. The U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday (Sept. 5) showed that four counties in northwest Indiana – Benton, Newton, Warren and Lake – are now in moderate