Crown Point News

Town officials and NIPSCO representatives held a productive meeting Wednesday, with a judgment bond process to pay a $400,000 outstanding bill to the utility and plans to shut off about 250 street lights to lower future bills, both sides said.

This certainly isn't your mom's home economics class. Crown Point High School is offering students a comprehensive class in the culinary arts with an eye toward careers in the food industry.

A former Dyer police officer has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of intimidation and harassment for allegedly threatening his children's former baby sitter to keep quiet about their relationship.

Crown Point - A prosecutor says a Gary man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing metal heating coils from an elementary school.

Shouldn't the State Board of Education audit the salaries and positions in the Gary school system? They are overstaffed and overpaid and are obviously not doing what they were hired to do.

Former Town Councilman Roland Brauer will replace longtime Winfield Township trustee/assessor John Curley.

A heroin exchange on Oct. 22 in a Porter County Jail inmate's hospital room at Porter Valparaiso Campus has led to charges against four persons, the Porter County Drug Task Force said.

Felony murder charges were filed Thursday against two Hammond teens already charged with robbery, burglary, confinement and auto theft in the deaths of Milton and Ruby McClendon of Hammond.

Work could begin in a couple of weeks to demolish three city-owned buildings on East Street near City Hall.

Share + Oct 29, 2009 11:01 am US/Central CROWN POINT, Ind. 1 of 1 Reo Jonta Thompson, 17, and Gregory Brooks Jr., 18, havd been charged with the murder of CLTV talk show host Garrard McClendon's parents in Hammond, Ind.

A Gary man has been charged with attempted murder, attempted rape and criminal confinement after he allegedly put a gun to a woman leaving a Gary nightclub and forced her to leave with him.

The two teenagers charged in connection with the murders of an Indiana couple have been moved to a jail in Crown Point, Indiana.

Run for the Roses: Campagna Academy will host its fifth annual Run for the Roses on Saturday.

Map collectors meet: The Road Map Collectors Association will meet at the Jean Shepherd Community Center, 3031 Mahoney Drive, from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

A Crown Point, Ind. man is charged with writing a false bomb threat on a package that he left at a Schererville home on Sept.

"I've got so much to share with you kids, if you would just listen." Moving to the front of his Certified Driving School classroom in Highland, Jerry Mazur opened the instructional program with some casual banter, followed by an update on Indiana driving regulations.

Rolling Bones is teaming up with Motorbooks and rodders across the country on an adventure to SEMA! Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell will drive their 1932 Ford Three Window Coupe from their shop in Ballston Spa, New York to Las Vegas.

Every person in south Lake County will be counted in the 2010 Census, if aggressive information efforts under way by local communities are successful.

Longtime Republican activist and Winfield Township Trustee John Curley died Tuesday of a reported heart attack.

A Winter Market, an offshoot of the city's Farmers Market, received the go-ahead from the Board of Public Works and Safety on Wednesday.