Hammond News

When I was in first-grade, I was learning to read the 12 words associated with "Dick & Jane." Now, my first-grade granddaughter is reading the National Geographic to me.

Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter is asking that a special prosecutor be appointed in the case of a Hammond family charged with possession of marijuana.

Muskegon area resident Robert Priefer, former captain of a more than 100-year-old passenger steamer, spoke to almost 50 seniors this week about the ship's history and ongoing restoration efforts.

"I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth Warrior." -- Darryl Cherney He lives in Chesterton with his wife, Sherry Meyer, but John Beckman, 59, was raised in the Glendale Park neighborhood of Hammond, near Conkey Street and Hohman Avenue.

Hammond, Ind. Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr., was on the radio Thursday and Friday commenting on the case of two Hammond teens charged with felony murder after a representative of the Lake County Prosecutor's Office informed him of a gag order in the case.

Ind. Courts - "Hammond Mayor irritates judge, talks of murder case: Court had banned discussion about Hammond homicide" Ruth Ann Krause reports today in the Gary Post Tribune : Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr., was on the radio Thursday and Friday commenting on the case of two Hammond teens charged with felony murder after a representative of the ...

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.

HEAR AUDIO FROM THE FUNERAL click here Steve Miller reporting WBBM Newsradio 780 CHICAGO -- More details are coming out about the murders of Milton and Ruby McClendon of Hammond, whose bodies were found in a Calumet City forest preserve a week ago.

Two teens being held on $250,000 bond each for a violent robbery that left a northwest Indiana couple dead made their initial court appearances Wednesday and a judge entered automatic not guilty pleas.

Gregory Brooks Jr. and Reo Thompson are returning home to Northwest Indiana today in leg-irons. The teenagers already face burglary, robbery, containment and auto theft charges, in connection to the murders of Waymon & Ruby McClendon.

Family and friends gathered in a northwest Indiana church on Monday to remember Milton and Ruby McClendon.

A judge in Indiana has approved criminal charges for two teens in connection with the deaths of CLTV host Garrard McClendon's parents last week, Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter said this afternoon.

Lake County commissioners voted Wednesday to support $180 million in planned economic development projects in Gary, Hammond and Hobart.

Share + Oct 23, 2009 6:13 pm US/Central Reporting Suzanne Le Mignot HAMMOND, Ind.

Hammond, Ind., police have received many calls about the slayings of an elderly couple, the parents of a Chicago TV talk-show host, but arrests are not imminent, a police spokesman said Thursday.

A source tells Newsradio 780 that blood has been found in the Hammond, Ind. home of an elderly couple who was shot to death - their bodies found in a south suburban forest preserve.

Another tragic death occurred in Chicago. CLTV's television host Garrard McClendon 's parents were found dead from gunshot wounds in the forest preserve of Calumet City.

The couple found dead in a Cook County Forest Preserve have been identified has the parents of a Chicago television host.

The first event of the 2009-2010 World Series of Poker Circuit season started out with a bang.

Farmland - Specialist, Jacob William Sexton, 21, of Farmland, IN passed away suddenly Monday, October 12, 2009, while on leave from active deployment in Afghanistan.