Gary Metro News

That accordion animal had accessibility on his mind last month. Willing to yak, "Weird Al" Yankovic was granting face time to the media.

GARY, Ind. -- A 22-year-old man who said he lived and worked at a day care has been accused of dealing marijuana from the center while children were in the building.

A woman accused of lying to collect nearly $192,000 in benefits for herself and her four children faces welfare fraud charges.

GARY, Ind. - Gary police are searching for two teenagers in a shooting that left a 12-year-old girl with a bullet lodged behind her right eye.

GARY, Ind. - Five people were rescued from a breakwall along Lake Michigan in Gary after their fishing boat smashed into the rocks and began to sink.

Registered sex offenders convicted of crimes involving children no longer will be allowed to use social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook under a new Indiana state law that takes effect next week, ...

HAMMOND, Ind. -- Federal authorities have linked at least some of the people indicted as part of a methamphetamine ring to a white-supremacist motorcycle club.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The 2008 Purdue University Forage Day will take place June 26 near Jonesboro in Grant County on Gary and Ann Hodupp's farm.

The Post-Tribune in Merrillville has been cleared in a race discrimination lawsuit.

Three people were charged late Saturday in the shooting death of a man attempting to defend his recently stabbed wife early Friday in the South Side's Englewood neighborhood.

Information provided by four northwest Indiana cities says railroad companies have piled up nearly 2,000 unpaid traffic tickets for blocking crossings for half an hour or longer.

A little more than a year ago, LaToya Rodgers, who was in the hospital for tests, was spending a typical evening gabbing on the phone with her friends from Merrillville High School in Indiana.

GARY, Ind. -- A man shot in the chest protecting a dozen or more children from gunfire is being hailed as a hero.

GARY, Ind. -- City officials are considering whether to stop allowing city employees, including police officers, to take cars home in a cost-cutting move.

Following devastating floods this week in Indiana, National Guard troops provided fresh, potable water from 400-gallon, camouflaged water tanks to the people of Hope, which is about 10 miles northeast of ...

On lawmakers accepting perks: It certainly was noble of state legislators to decline offers of free passes on the Indiana Toll Road days after the new private operator doubled the tolls.

A Gary police officer is pleading not guilty to charges he took part in a drive-by shooting in Portage.

State efforts to lower local property tax bills are having the unexpected consequence of boosting the Lake County Jail's population and public spending on inmate medical expenses, region legal officials said ...

GARY, Ind. -- The city recorded 71 homicides in 2007, up from 48 the year before, a sharp contrast to the nationwide and Midwest trends of fewer murders last year, according to an FBI report.

Passengers who say they spent more than six hours stranded on a United Airlines plane on the ground overnight are talking about their ordeal.