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The mobile home of Richard Lohmann, a resident of 20 years, sits next to vacant lots of burned out homes Oct. 29 at Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park in Agoura Hills, California. Roughly half of the Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park was destroyed by the Woolsey fire last year, leaving more than one hundred families homeless.

Half their community burned in the Woolsey fire. Recovery is wreaking its own misery.

By Tribune News Service · Monday, Nov. 11,2019 6:12 p.m.

A year after the Nov. 8, 2018, fire, Seminole Springs is still nowhere close to funding its rebuild, residents said.

Yogi’s Bar and Grill reopening Monday, keeping traditions intact

By Carson TerBush · Sunday, Nov. 10,2019 4:26 p.m.

Replacing Scotty’s Brewhouse, the new Yogi’s is a revival of a Bloomington favorite

President Donald Trump listens to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a Cabinet Meeting on Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C.

State Department freed Ukraine money before Trump says he did

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Nov. 10,2019 3:36 p.m.

Bolton's handling of the funding struck officials in the White House as violating protocol.

The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette from Boyertown, Pennsylvania, as it transits across the face of the sun May 9, 2016.

Mercury will pass in front of the sun on Monday

By Tribune News Service · Sunday, Nov. 10,2019 3:28 p.m.

That last happened in 2012.

TEDxIU brings global leaders to Bloomington to tell their story

By Joy Burton · Saturday, Nov. 9,2019 5:05 p.m.

More than 600 people attended the event Nov. 8 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Purple Shirt Brigade protesters removed from Bloomington farmers market Saturday

By Lydia Gerike · Saturday, Nov. 9,2019 5:04 p.m.

The group was protesting Schooner Creek Farm’s connection to a white nationalist group.

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb to deliver 2019 IU winter commencement address

By Jessica Prucha · Friday, Nov. 8,2019 8:01 p.m.

The governor will speak at the ceremony Dec. 12 in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

IU receives $300,000 grant to improve cybersecurity for 2020 election

By Jessica Prucha · Friday, Nov. 8,2019 8:11 a.m.

The grant will fund cybersecurity incident response initiatives across the state’s 92 counties.

United States diplomat to Ukraine, William Taylor, arrived at the Capitol on Oct. 22 in Washington, D.C. Taylor's testimony comes as a growing number of Republicans in Congress struggle to defend the president's actions over Ukraine and Syria.

Top Ukraine diplomat Taylor threatened to quit over Trump demand, transcript shows

By Tribune News Service · Thursday, Nov. 7,2019 10:51 p.m.

House Democrats released a transcript of Taylor's closed-door deposition Wednesday.

President Donald Trump arrives Nov. 6 to deliver remarks on Federal Judicial Confirmation Milestones in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Trump organized the event to celebrate the confirmation of more than 150 Federal judges.

Poll: 1 in 4 Americans undecided about impeachment

By Tribune News Service · Thursday, Nov. 7,2019 10:35 p.m.

The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll also asked participants about the 2020 election.

Off-duty Bloomington firefighter saves two people from burning house

By Sara Kress · Thursday, Nov. 7,2019 8:51 p.m.

He continued to help even after on-duty firefighters arrived.

National charity erases $2.2 million in medical debt for Bloomington families

By Claire Peters · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2019 6:20 p.m.

The identities of the recipients won’t be revealed until the debt is bought.

A 7.7-acre prescribed burn is scheduled between Nov. 6 and June 1, 2020, on the north shore of Griffy Lake. To conduct the burn, Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department has contracted with Habitat Solutions Wildlife and Forest Management.

Bloomington to burn north shore of Griffy Lake over next few months to regenerate habitat

By Lyndsay Valadez · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2019 5:08 p.m.

The burn is also intended to diversify wildlife and remove invasive species.

David Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs, arrives Nov. 6 at the U.S. Capitol before giving a deposition to the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors in Washington, D.C. Hale testified to the committee as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

Third-highest ranking State Department official testifying

By Tribune News Service · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2019 4:27 p.m.

The panel expects to unseal two more deposition transcripts Wednesday, though it has not indicated whose.

Harvard University's campus is seen from above in 2013. The prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda wrote a letter to the university's president asking the university to make amends for Antiguan slave labor contributions to the creation of Harvard Law School.

Antigua reminds Harvard that slave labor paid for its law school. It wants reparations.

By Tribune News Service · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2019 2:40 p.m.

A slaveholder left Harvard the land that led to the creation of its law school.

Sue Sgambelluri, Ron Smith win Bloomington City Council elections

By Lydia Gerike · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2019 11:59 p.m.

The District 2 and District 3 winners are both Democrats.

India Garden moves to larger location on Fourth Street

By Sara Kress · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2019 6:15 p.m.

The local Indian restaurant now seats between 70-80 people.

Army Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, arrives at a closed session before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees on Oct. 29 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Who's who: The Americans at the center of the Trump-Ukraine uproar

By Tribune News Service · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2019 5:52 p.m.

The list of key players can be daunting, so here's a guide.

Veterans Day ceremony organized at Stonecroft Health Campus

By Lyndsay Valadez · Monday, Nov. 4,2019 6:52 p.m.

A World War II veteran will be speaking to event attendees.

Visitors crowd Tunnel View overlooking Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park. The Trump administration is mulling proposals to privatize national park campgrounds and further commercialize the parks with expanded Wi-Fi service, food trucks and even Amazon deliveries at tourist camp sites.

Trump team has a plan for national parks: Amazon, food trucks and no senior discounts

By Tribune News Service · Monday, Nov. 4,2019 3:39 p.m.

The Trump administration is mulling proposals to privatize national park campgrounds and further commercialize the parks.

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