Mother, Boyfriend In Custody After Baby Is Injured
A 5-month-old baby is in critical condition and not expected to survive severe head trauma that police say was caused by abuse.
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A 5-month-old baby is in critical condition and not expected to survive severe head trauma that police say was caused by abuse.
The westbound Indiana Toll Road is closed "indefinitely" near the Porter/Lake County Line after two trucks collided on the highway, causing an explosion and fire.
Police have arrested the son of a couple who were found dead in their Northwest Indiana home over the weekend.
Two men were killed in separate homicides Saturday night in Lake County.
Plans to build a toll road connecting two interstate highways though the south suburbs and Northwest Indiana was approved by a planning committee on Thursday
The city of Gary has announced it will host its first-ever marathon, and some shorter races, in less than two weeks along the lakefront.
A central Indiana man with a history of arguments with his son was being held in jail Monday on suspicion of fatally shooting the younger man, the sheriff said.
Authorities in Lake County, Ind., on Tuesday showed off about three quarters of a million dollars worth of drugs seized in undercover operations in the past week, and six handguns and two rifles that allegedly were purchased by a Gary mother for her gang-member sons.
Alehandro Sanchez, 21, is accused in the April 7, 2012 slayings of Jeffery Trinka and Jennifer Guinn at a home just west of the Valparaiso city limits.
An argument outside the Blue Room early Monday led to gunfire, leaving a Gary man dead and his alleged killer in custody.
A three-vehicle crash sent a motorcyclist to the hospital Sunday afternoon on Interstate 94 near Porter, Ind.
Robert Lewis III, 40, was convicted of murder, murder in perpetration of criminal deviate conduct, criminal deviate conduct and resisting law enforcement in the beating and strangulation death of Jennifer Kocsis, 37.
Thanks to recent headlines, you'd think the FBI rolled out the red carpet and handed Chicago a beautiful, hand-engraved (in cursive!) plaque that reads Murderiest Murder City in Murderland. In reality, the FBI did no such thing. Here's a closer look at the FBI's statistics and how they do and do not relate to homicides in Chicago
Residents in Griffith, Ind., have been losing a lot of sleep, and it's going to continue for at least a couple weeks, after the town made a deal to allow tanker trucks to use a stretch of Cline Avenue 24 hours a day.
Witnesses said 15-year-old Diquan Thomas and a 17-year-old friend both tried to cross in front of the oncoming train. The older teen made it across successfully, but Thomas was hit by the train.
One person was killed when a home exploded Monday evening in a remote subdivision surrounded by Northwest Indiana farm country.
The smallest of crimes could get you in big trouble with cops in Northwest Indiana. They've launched a special team of officers from several cities - stopping dozens of people each night.
A warning for holiday weekend revelers planning to hit Lake Michigan: Even when the water seems calm, it can be deadly. CBS 2's Pamela Jones reports.
A man is being held in southern Illinois on $2 million bond in the shooting death of an Indiana woman whose body was found in a cornfield.
Perry Johnson, 39, of the 200 block of Cleveland Street, was pronounced dead at the Methodist Hospitals Northlake campus at 10:03 p.m.
A toddler from the south suburbs was among three people who died this weekend when a crowded off-road vehicle slammed into a concrete wall and burst into flames along a rural western Indiana road.
Police said the vendor was working at the corner of 15th Avenue and Clark Road, when a gunman approached him and shot him around 5:30 a.m.
A 6-year-old Illinois boy who survived being buried under a sand dune in Indiana has been released from rehabilitative care at a children's hospital in Chicago.
A Gary teen was shot and killed during a struggle over a gun he apparently pointed at a robbery victim.
The body of a Blue Island alderman was pulled from Lake Michigan overnight, after he went missing while boating with friends in northwest Indiana.
