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To enhance safety for motorists and pedestrians, the City of Valparaiso will be stepping up enforcementefforts for traffic violations that lead to accidents, particularly speeding. “We simply want to remind motorists of speed limits and safe...

Porter County Judge Christopher Buckley believes in the power of second chances, and he shows this every day as the presiding judge for Porter County’s Mental Health Restoration Court.  As a part of one of several problem-solving courts in Porter...

On January 1, the first day of the new year, supporters, family members, and citizens of Valparaiso gathered at city hall to watch as their newest elected officials were sworn-in.  An optimistic atmosphere filled the hall as spectators chattered...

Featured image courtesy of Purdue University. In over three decades of service, Hartman Global Intellectual Property (IP) Law has had the opportunity to work with hundreds of innovators, researchers, and other pioneers to protect their creations and...

The world of intellectual property (IP) law is a complex, multi-layered one with different countries sporting different sets of regulations. Yet it goes deeper than that – even within the U.S. there are layers, as individual states each enforce...

Marc Ruiz: Times Columnist The IRS recently announced some extremely important updates for beneficiaries of inherited IRAs, and parts of the update are very timely as we head into 2023. The SECURE Act passed in 2019 and implemented in 2020 made a...

BBB receiving reports of scammer posing as a lottery winner donating funds The BBB serving Northern Indiana has issued a warning to consumers about a reported text message scam. The scammer poses as a lottery winner named Manuel Franco. He...

Paying property taxes can be a daunting task, but with the options to pay online, by mail, or in-person, there are more ways to tackle taxes than ever before. GreatNews.Life had the opportunity to speak with Porter County Treasurer Michelle Clancy...

Millions of people go online in search of romance, and while it does work out for a lot of folks, there are also plenty of fishy people lying in wait, pretending to be interested in a relationship for the sole purpose of stealing your money (or...

While the terms trademark and copyright both carry similar weight in regards to protecting the intellectual or designed property of an individual, company or organization, the differences between what these two terms represent is quite different. In...