Crown Point News

A Crown Point woman was awarded $5.2 million Thursday for injuries suffered in a semi-truck crash on Interstate 94.

A Crown Point man has been charged in the stabbing of an acquaintance in a feud over a woman.

Lake County Commissioners weren't in the holiday spirit Wednesday, as they voted down a 2010 county calendar that included a four-day-long Christmas weekend.

A Hammond woman has been charged in Lake Superior Court in Crown Point with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.

Conrad Hales has been intrigued by trains since he was 8 years old. "I was jealous when I went to my cousin's house; they had a Lionel train set," the Crown Point resident said.

An 18-year-old Merrillville High School senior who worked to save money for college and planned on becoming a pharmacist died Friday night in a single-vehicle crash in Hobart, Ind.

T he Rev. Freda Scales of Valparaiso has chosen many paths. She was dean of the College of Nursing at Valparaiso University for 18 years.

Some U.S. soldiers on the front lines in Afghanistan need your help. They're missing the little things we all take for granted.

In Crown Point, guest speaker Dee Edgington, retired teacher and U.S. Navy veteran, decided to forgo the usual Veterans Day speech.

Robert Kwak has a pre-existing condition that led to his recent diagnosis of terminal multiple myeloma.

The Crown Point Chamber has been operating in the red the last two years, but the numbers haven't seemed to deter the Merrillville Chamber from a plan calling for the two to merge.

A discussion of how Northwest Indiana's newest planned university campus fits into Northwest Indiana's economic landscape is slated for Thursday.

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.