Indiana: Hammond Mayor Wins Reelection; Portage Mayor Ousted
The dust is settling from the elections Tuesday in Northwest Indiana, and while incumbents prevailed overall, there will also be some new faces.
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The dust is settling from the elections Tuesday in Northwest Indiana, and while incumbents prevailed overall, there will also be some new faces.
A 15-year-old northwest Indiana boy is being charged as an adult with rape, robbery, aggravated battery and battery in a series of attacks in Hammond dating back nearly a year.
Police in Hammond, Ind., might know who is responsible for human bones that were found last week in the remains of a demolished building.
A Northwest Indiana mother thinks bones found on a Hammond, Ind. lot could be her daughter's. CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports.
Police are investigating a mystery stemming from a grisly discovery at a Hammond, Ind., demolition site.
A Vietnam veteran says he's in a battle he never thought he'd have to fight: a battle to make a living in the city where he lives. In the past, he's done that selling hot dogs, but a new ordinance in Hammond, Ind., is making that impossible.
One teenager from Hammond, Ind., is dead, after he was shot and robbed when he and a friend were lured to a West Pullman neighborhood location where they thought they would be buying auto parts.
The Northwest Indiana casino market, like that in all the Chicago area, continued to decline last month, with only Ameristar in East Chicago showing some increase in revenues.
If the massive gambling expansion bill now on Gov. Pat Quinn's desk goes ahead, it would mean extremely tough competition for casinos in places such as Hammond, Ind., and Joliet.
A 31-year-old Hammond, Ind. man died Sunday morning after the vehicle he was driving slammed into two buildings.
A 20-year-old northwest Indiana man was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly tried to enter the Six Flags Great America amusement park with a loaded .40 caliber handgun.
A federal judge said he wouldn't be surprised if two women were responsible for the loss of more than $1 million in their tax return fraud scheme but decided to sentence them to 41 months each because of their cooperation.
Voters in Indiana go to the polls Tuesday to pick city and town governments and decide tax questions.
Customers of the electric utility NIPSCO gave regulators an earful Thursday night over a proposed 7.9 percent rate increase.
Four current or former employees of Quick Sam Tax Service in Gary, Ind. were indicted for preparing fraudulent tax returns over the past year.
Closing arguments are due later this week in a medical malpractice case against a notorious northwest Indiana "nose doctor."
A former Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune reporter died Monday afternoon from injuries suffered in a fire at her Hammond, Ind. apartment.
Hugo E. Gil was working as a nursing assistant when he stole a 91-year-old hospital patient's credit card from his wallet.
While the snow will soon begin to die down in the immediate Chicago area, Northwest Indiana will continue to get socked with lake-effect snow.
Indiana residents are used to getting more than their share of snow. This week's blizzard may be no exception.
A 27-year-old man pleaded guilty to reckless homicide on Friday, admitting he struck an elderly pedestrian in Hammond, Ind., two years ago.
The Methodist Hospitals claims in a federal lawsuit that the company it hired in 2006 to help steer it out of a financial mess instead directed it to a new computer system that wasted $16.6 million.
A northwest Indiana man has been charged with murder for allegedly hitting another man with his car because the victim was seeing the driver's girlfriend.
A driver was in custody Tuesday, after a hit-and-run collision in Hammond, Ind., killed a 28-year-old man who was crossing the street in northwest Indiana over the weekend.
