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Community Hospital Fitness Pointe indoor rowing team

Community Hospital Fitness Pointe members take first place in World Rowing challenge

May 22, 2018

MUNSTER – Members of the Community Hospital Fitness Pointe team have been named champions of the indoor World Rowing competition. The team placed first, rowing 23,102,423 meters, beating out 79 other international teams entered in the health/fitness division. Sponsored by Concept2, a manufacturer of indoor rowing and other exercise equipment, the challenge took place between […]

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Blue Chip Casino will expand event space nearly 15,000 square feet

May 22, 2018

MICHIGAN CITY – Blue Chip Casino, Hotel & Spa announced plans to add nearly 15,000 square feet of meeting space. Construction is expected to start before year’s end with a projected completion by fall 2019, Blue Chip said in a statement. Once completed, Blue Chip will have more than 45,000 square feet of rentable event

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Fifth Third Bancorp, MB Financial Inc. merging operations

May 22, 2018

Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bancorp and MB Financial Inc. will merge operations in a stock and cash transaction valued at $4.7 billion. MB Financial is the holding company for MB Financial Bank, which has about $20 billion in assets and has served the Chicago area for more than 100 years. The deal still is subject

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Franciscan Physician Network Welcomes New Physician

May 22, 2018

Sameer Z. Ahmed, MD, an oncologist/hematologist with Franciscan Physician Network Oncology & Hematology Specialists, will begin seeing patients at Franciscan Health Rensselaer‘s Cancer Center. Board-certified in oncology, hematology and internal medicine, Dr. Ahmed completed a fellowship in hematology and oncology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and an internal medicine residency at Jewish Hospital

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Gov. Eric Holcomb appoints Stefanie Krevda to Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission

May 21, 2018

Stefanie Krevda has been appointed by Gov. Eric Holcomb to fill a vacancy on the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. Krevda replaces Angela Weber whose term expired. Krevda has worked in public service and in the non-profit sector for 10 years. She presently serves as the executive director of external affairs at the IURC. Krevda previously

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Regina Biddings-Muro leaving Purdue Northwest for California post

May 21, 2018

HAMMOND – Regina Biddings-Muro, a 14-year administrator at Purdue University Northwest, is leaving her post at the college by the end of June to take over as vice president of university advancement at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Biddings-Muro has been vice chancellor of institutional advancement at Purdue Northwest since 2012, after serving

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Purdue University Northwest Offers Free Cybersecurity Camp

May 20, 2018

HAMMOND and WESTVILLE – Purdue University Northwest’s (PNW) College of Technology will offer free cybersecurity summer camps for high school teachers and students from northwest Indiana, southwest Michigan and the Chicago metropolitan area through a $194,010 grant, jointly funded by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). This is the third

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Indiana’s jobless rate still below national number

May 18, 2018

Indiana’s unemployment rate for April was 3.2 percent, lower than the national rate of 3.9 percent, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development reports. Indiana’s unemployment rate has been below the U.S. rate for more than four years except during October 2014 when the jobless rates were identical. The monthly unemployment rate is a U.S. Bureau

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