At all stages of life we learn lessons. One being hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

33 year old air force tech sergeant Ryan Balmer died Tuesday in Kirkuk. He and another airman from Ohio were killed by a roadside bomb.

A local US Navy veteran shares his stories and shows his pictures from 63 years ago, on D-Day.

It happened in May, as the Toyota Prius posted sales of 24,000 units.

They better have fun or they will have to walk the plank. Area kids joined a pirate crew Wednesday to search for pirate treasure.

Residents at the Saint Joseph Care Center got a special treat Wednesday afternoon. Internationally recognized jazz saxophonist Danny Lerman played for the residents.

St. Mary’s College is hosting seminar where local businesses, organizations and community members can learn to help eliminate poverty in our area.

The next time drivers in Indiana go to get new licenses, their cards will look a little bit different. Fort Wayne was the first to introduce the new licenses Friday.

Divers resumed their search of Lake Michigan on Wednesday for the twin engine medical transport plane that crashed on Monday afternoon.

There are now more men in blue ready to patrol the streets of South Bend. Four new recruits were sworn in to the police department this morning.

South Bend’s police chief has recommended firing an officer. Corporal Tony Macik was arrested last July following an incident at Duncan Systems in Elkhart.

It is a Michiana murder case that has made national headlines and now the Jeff Pelley case will be featured on 20-20. In July of 2006, Pelley was convicted on four counts of murder for the 1989 deaths of his father, step mother, and two step sisters in Lakeville.

Years of waiting in traffic could come to an end in a part of Saint Joseph County.

Bus drivers and custodians picketed outside of a Benton Harbor school board meeting. About 100 employees stand to lose their jobs if the school district decides to privatize its transportation and custodial contracts.

Police in Benton Harbor arrested a man for the murder of Jerome Davis.

The Michigan peach crop seems to have weathered the Easter freeze.

Holy Cross College looks for ways to notify everyone on campus of an emergency, if necessary.

For some, feeling less pain at the pump is as easy as feeling more wind in their face.

34 members of the Notre Dame Alumni Association or the "Hammerin' Irish" teamed up with Habitat for Humanity to build a home for a South Bend family.

Tuesday was National Hunger Awareness Day. It is a staggering statistic; more than 35-million Americans go hungry each day.

St. Joseph Superintendent Carole Schmidt was announced as a replacement for Benton Harbor’s Paula Dawning last week.

The U.S. Coast Guard says no one survived a plane crash in Lake Michigan this week. Rescue crews spent the night searching for any survivors in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee after a small medical transport plane crashed Monday afternoon.

School bus drivers and custodians in the Benton Harbor district will continue to fight for their jobs Tuesday night.

One man is dead another is hospitalized following an early Tuesday morning crash in Kosciusko County. It happened just before six in the morning on State Road 13 near South Shore Drive in Syracuse.

Some local fire departments are asking the private operator of the Indiana toll road for some cash, to help pay the cost of responding to crashes on the toll way.