Westville News

La Porte Regional Health System is offering clinical breast exams at no cost, but you have to sign up for an appointment.

Join the Zumba Dance-A-Thon: Melt off the pounds while helping raise funds for fitness programs at the Portage Township YMCA, 3100 Willowcreek Road.

Five persons were charged Wednesday in connection with a heroin distribution operation, the Porter County Prosecuting Attorney's Office said.

Five people were arrested Wednesday for alleging being part of a heroin distribution ring in Porter County.

A 32-year-old South Haven man likely will be charged with strangulation and battery for an alleged attack against his girlfriend's 15-year-old son.

CHESS INSTRUCTION: The Chess Master Instruction Program for Young People meets from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, beginning Oct.

A Westville motorcyclist was seriously injured Thursday after being struck by an SUV on Ind.

Prospective owners who had seen the notices on store bulletin boards began arriving at the Independent Cat Society on the Westville side of County Line Road at U.S. 6 as soon as it opened Sept.

If you want to see a bunch of drunken college kids, go to the Popcorn Festival. If you really want to see some crafts and have some quality family time, try either the Westville Pumpkin Fest or the Wanatah Scarecrow Fest.

An Osceola man was arrested just before 3:30 a.m. Thursday, for trafficking goods outside of Westville Correctional Facility in Westville, Ind.

Oh, the many uses for corn and its byproducts. Cornmeal as a canvas, cracked corn as a background, corncobs and husks for decoration, corn kernels painted and glued painstakingly in place, and popped corn -- lots of popped corn -- used everywhere.

An economic recession helped local universities set records for enrollment this year.

20. Hours are: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday; noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

A Westville woman who police say was intoxicated when she crashed her car in June 2008 in Pine Township, in an accident which killed her passenger, was sentenced to five years on Friday.

An apparently phony report of a shooting in rural Westville on Tuesday led to the arrest of a man who, the LaPorte County Sheriff's Police said, was running a large indoor marijuana growing operation in his home with a street value of nearly $200,000. James K. Pappas, 56, who resides in the 1800 south block of Otis Road, has been charged with ...

An apparently phony report of a shooting in rural Westville on Tuesday led to the arrest of a man who, the LaPorte County Sheriff's Police said, was running a large indoor marijuana growing operation in his home with a street value of nearly $200,000. James K. Pappas, 56, who resides in the 1800 south block of Otis Road, has been charged with ...

An apparently phony report of a shooting in rural Westville on Tuesday led to the arrest of a man who, the LaPorte County Sheriff's Police said, was running a large indoor marijuana growing operation in his home with a street value of nearly $200,000. James K. Pappas, 56, who resides in the 1800 south block of Otis Road, has been charged with ...

Weather for the first two days of the first Perch Fest ran the gamut from gusty showers to sweltering sun, with an even more intense sweatbox predicted for Sunday, the final day.

An apparently phony report of a shooting in rural Westville on Tuesday led to the arrest of a man who, the LaPorte County Sheriff's Police said, was running a large indoor marijuana growing operation in his home with a street value of nearly $200,000. James K. Pappas, 56, who resides in the 1800 south block of Otis Road, has been charged with ...

A report of a man being shot and dragged inside a Westville-area home led LaPorte County deputies to a major marijuana growing operation.