Hammond News

A nine-year veteran of the Hammond Police Department shot and killed a man Thursday night after the suspect charged at the officer with a knife, according to reports.

Purdue University President France A. Ci 1 2rdova spotlighted the ways that the school is helping to spur economic development across the state during a visit to the Calumet campus on Thursday.

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

Dr. Alex Stemer, a prominent physician in the region, faces a lawsuit claiming he sexually harassed an employee and fired her because she wouldn't go along with an insurance fraud scheme.

A Whiting man has been charged in back-to-back robberies at a Hammond bank branch.

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 jury trial for a Whiting man charged with murder and neglect in the child abuse death of a Hammond toddler has been postponed until May.

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.

"Activism is my rent for living on this planet." -- Alice Walker After living in Washington, D.C., for 30 years, Anne Herbert took a severance package from MCI Telecommunications and moved back home to the Pullman area of Hammond in 2003 to take care of family.

A woman testified Tuesday in the trial of three men accused of running a prostitution ring that she saw several girls beaten and was forced to prostitute herself.

A Hammond woman has been charged with attempted murder and battery in an assault in Whiting in which a woman was beaten in the head with a tire iron.

While commercial development is practically at a standstill throughout most of the nation, this city is is enjoying movement at three prime areas.

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 ...