East Chicago News

A Hammond man has been charged in Lake Superior Court with molesting a 4-year-old girl between January and July in Hammond.

An 18-year-old Hammond man was convicted Thursday in a 2007 murder in East Chicago.

The Lake County Prosecutor on Tuesday charged an alleged gang member with murder in the shooting death of an East Chicago man outside a Hammond convenience store Sunday night.

Drivers are having to navigate around a four-mile section of a northwestern Indiana expressway that the state highway agency has closed for at least six weeks because of bridge damage.

The Regional Development Authority's working group agreed Thursday to recommend allocating an initial $500,000 to help the Regional Bus Authority take over and expand a route operated by the Hammond Transit Authority.

Commuters traveling through northwest Indiana on Friday evening may have to find another way to get around.

The Lake County Council nearly played Grinch on Tuesday, weighing the idea of stealing a few paid holidays to balance the budget.

A northern Indiana steel mill is getting a $32 million federal grant to install equipment that will generate power from a blast furnace's waste gas.

It's tough to see any downside to the case Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller makes for opening the books on gambling money that comes back to communities under a Local Development Agreement.

ArcelorMittal has been awarded $31.6 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus funding by the U.S. Department of Energy for the steelmaker's No.

DOE announced on November 3 its award of more than $155 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to 41 industrial energy efficiency projects across the country.

A Hoosier company will get more than $31 million in stimulus money for an energy-efficiency project the government said will combine heat and power systems for industrial uses.

Lake County property owners have until 7 tonight to pay the first installment of their 2008 tax bills.

A Gary man admitted he fondled the buttocks of a woman being held in the waiting room at the Gary police department lockup.

The air around two Northwest Indiana elementary schools contains a slew of hazardous air pollutants, but not enough to be of short-term concern, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Ind. Courts - "Justices to hear East Chicago casino case Thursday " Dan Carden reports today in the NWI Times about the upcoming oral argument tomorrow in the case of Foundations of East Chicago v. City of East Chicago and the Attorney General of Indiana.

With a jury already selected, an East Chicago man pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping a 14-year-old girl in East Chicago.

Eric Bradner reports in the Oct. 24th Evansville Courier & Press : Indiana's attorney general is calling for a new law that would pry open the financial record books of organizations to which casinos, in order to keep promises of economic development, funnel some of their revenue.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Ind. Courts - "Proposal to close Lake County courts stirs opposition" Bill Dolan reports in the NWI Times : CROWN POINT Lake County Commissioner Roosevelt Allen, D-Gary, said closing the satellite courthouses would be unpopular among north county voters who would lose easy access to county government offices.

Agency fields more than triple the number of telephone calls it normally receives as residents apply for federal assistance Comments October 19, 2009 BY GITTE LAASBY, 648-2183 Northwest Indiana residents are eager to get their homes weatherized.