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.
Municipal elections are being held Tuesday in several Indiana towns and cities, including Gary, which could see its first woman mayor.
The FBI is looking into the death of a newborn baby after an Indiana woman apparently gave birth on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.
A Portage, Ind., man has been placed into an inducted coma after an industrial accident at the steel mill where he worked left him with third-degree burns over 55 percent of his body.
Indiana State Police are using new technology to catch drivers without valid licenses.
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.
Police are investigating a mystery stemming from a grisly discovery at a Hammond, Ind., demolition site.
Thousands of families are sending their children to private religious institutions with public funds. Indiana's new school voucher system, approved last April and taking effect this fall, set it all in motion.
Gary police say a 28-year-old man led officers on a chase Monday through a large area of the city, and fought with them before finally getting arrested.
An 18-year-old Northwest Indiana man is free on bond, after being arrested and handcuffed, escaping, then turning himself in with his wrists still cuffed.
Two former Lake County, Ind., Sheriff's officers appeared in federal court in Hammond Tuesday, pleading guilty to gun trafficking and tax evasion charges.
More vehicles may be converted to run on natural gas, as part of a pilot program at the U.S. Steel plant in Gary, Ind.
The U.S. attorney's office has indicted the Lake County coroner and three police officers as part of two separate public corruption investigations.
Porter County Sheriff's police and a state dive team came up empty Wednesday as they searched a small pond for evidence in the murder of Amanda Bach, the Portage teen found shot to death Saturday.
An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Amanda Bach, of Portage Ind., over the weekend. Bach's friends have described the suspect as the woman's ex-boyfriend.
The body of 19-year-old Portage, Ind. woman who had been missing since early Friday has been found in Porter County, authorities said Saturday night.
A judge has refused a request by the sons of missing Northwest Indiana doctor Promila Mehta-Paul to name a legal guardian for her estate.
Prosecutors in Northwest Indiana say it will be some time before they get to the bottom of a bizarre crime yesterday involving a father and daughter.
An Indiana couple is facing charges of extortion after allegedly being involved in a fake kidnapping scam.
A Northwest Indiana man charged with running over a woman, dragging her for a mile and killing her says the passenger in his car was really responsible.
A man riding a motorcycle was killed and his female passenger was critically injured when they crashed on the Indiana Toll Road in Lake County, Ind., on Tuesday.
A man was killed early Friday in a motorcycle accident that shut down Interstate 65 in Northwest Indiana for two hours.
"Bath salts" are being blamed for an Indiana woman's misadventure on the roads this week that ended with a crash into a Boulder and several police squad cars.
A Hobart, Ind., woman has now found herself in police custody 14 different times for driving without ever getting a license.
