Schererville News

In the already massive pack running for Lake County sheriff, they are the underdogs.

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.

Construction crews were working in April 1982 on a new ramp connecting Cline Avenue in East Chicago to Riley Road when one section of the road -- standing 80 feet tall -- collapsed, with rubble falling on workers.

SCHERERVILLE, Ind. - A northwestern Indiana golf course is leaving sections of land alongside its greens unkempt and boosting recycling in an effort to be certified as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary.

There are career benefits to finishing among the top 24 for the seventh season of "American Idol." Just ask Amy Davis -- a Cedar Lake singer who finished ahead of more than 100,000 others who auditioned.

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 rash of burglaries in Schererville got special attention the past few weeks from the Lake County Sherriff's Department.

Local business people supports mass transit initiatives: They say voters were quick to tally cost, not benefits in recent referendum Nov.

18, at Valparaiso University's Harre Union. The meeting will cover issues relating to the technology field.

Women's Self Defense Class: The Schererville Police Department will be sponsoring a Women's Self Defense Class on Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Registration is a prerequisite.

Women and men looking for faster, more effective wrinkle correction have a new option for "nonsurgical face lift." Indiana plastic surgeon Dr.

A real estate appraiser accused of falsifying information on documents and low-balling the values of property has lost her license.

It's not every day that Purdue University Calumet students get to talk face-to-face with a former White House staffer.

I just returned from Rochester High School, where the Indiana Department of Education held the first of three public hearings on the proposed teacher licensing changes.

Police are searching for a suspect who robbed a man at the gas pumps Thursday at the Speedway, 9299 Broadway.

'SUMMurdER CAMP: M & M Productions' Center Stage Studio Theatre, 227 Center St., presents an alternative to the regular haunted houses.

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

As painting began Tuesday at the Bennigan's Sport site, which quietly closed last week at Westfield Southlake Mall, union members protested the non-union labor workers at the restaurant.

Police are looking for two unknown men who robbed the Check Into Cash on West Lincoln Highway on Friday afternoon.

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