Lake County News

For Northwest Indiana, the state budget bill that passed Tuesday is a big boost to those favoring more regional government, and an equally big slap for Porter County officials who have rejected the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority and the prospect of more taxes.

The U.S. Census Bureau released population estimates for all cities, towns and townships in the United States, as of July 1, 2008, today .

CROWN POINT, Ind. - Police used a stun gun to subdue a man before he appeared in court on charges that he and his girlfriend killed a toddler whose body was encased in concrete and dumped in a swampy area of northwestern Indiana.

Karen Grau has documented many heartbreaking cases in her decade-plus career reporting on the juvenile-justice system, but maybe none sadder and more surprising than the story of Kenneth.

Fires destroyed two Lake County homes Sunday afternoon, claiming no human lives but possibly killing as many as four animals.

Jun 24, 2009 5:09 pm US/Central Reporting Jim Williams WHITING, Ind. 1 of 1 Ron Hric's Whiting, Ind., porch looks out onto the BP refinery in the town.

Eighteen-year-old Engelica Castillo and 24-year-old Tim Tkachik, both of Hobart, were being held without bond Friday in the Lake County Jail.

Authorities say a semitrailer slammed into a pickup truck that had slowed down on Interstate 65 in northwestern Indiana, killing a couple and their three children riding in the truck.

Jun 26, 2009 9:02 am US/Central OTIS, Ind. Charges could be filed Friday after the death of an Indiana toddler who is believed to be the missing 2-year-old Jada Justice.

Jun 25, 2009 12:00 pm US/Central CROWN POINT, Ind. An East Chicago man has been charged with burglary, rape and criminal deviate conduct in Lake County, Ind.

A northwest Indiana man whose burning of an abandoned office building was discovered by an accelerant-sniffing police dog was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday.

When I was a young girl in grade school, I had a teacher who was a master at telling stories.

Jacob Robert Leslow of Winfield was sentenced to five years in prison for a burglary in which footprints in fresh snow led police to the suspect.

St. John - A proposed $95 million project to expand and renovate Indiana's sixth-largest high school is among three school construction referendums rejected by voters across the state.

A mobile office of the Mexican Consulate in Chicago is at East Chicago High School this week and is expected to draw more than 1,000 people seeking passport renewals, identification cards and other services.

Police in northern Indiana say they shot and killed a man who unexpectedly left his home after a two-hour standoff and pointed a handgun at an officer.

An eight-year tax battle between the state and a local church drew to a close last month with the church being granted a religious exemption that freed it from having to pay nearly $500,000 in taxes from 2001 through 2003 on a large cultural center.

Ten felony charges have been filed against a Union Township man who the Porter County Sheriff's Police said was intoxicated and under the influence of cocaine and marijuana when he crashed his motorcycle in May on C.R. 350S in Porter Township, in an accident which killed his passenger.

Residents of the Lake Central school district are already casting their votes in the referendum on the proposed $95 million renovation of the high school.

GARY, Ind. - A coroner says a Valparaiso man fell 90 feet from an overhead crane and died at U.S. Steel's Gary Works.