Indiana 911 call center turns to AI to take non-emergency calls amid staffing shortage
At Lake County 911 in Indiana, an AI call taker named "AVA" has handled more than 35,000 calls within just months.
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At Lake County 911 in Indiana, an AI call taker named "AVA" has handled more than 35,000 calls within just months.
Lake County 911 takes calls for 44 different police, fire and EMS agencies across the county. AVA has taken more than 444,000 calls so far this year, but not every call is a true emergency.
Monday, Oct. 5, is the last day you can register to vote in Indiana for the 2026 midterm election.
Police said the shooting appeared to be an isolated incident between the people involved and there is no ongoing threat to the public.
Indiana lawmakers on Tuesday grilled officials from power company NIPSCO about their handling of last month's severe storms, which left hundreds of thousands in Northwest Indiana without power, some of them for more than two weeks.
Indiana legislators are getting a chance to grill a NIPSCO representative about the response to the August 11t derecho.
Indiana legislators plan to fulfill their promise to investigate NIPSCO's response to the August 11th derecho.
An investigation is underway into NIPSCO's response to the August storms that left thousands without power for weeks in Northwest Indiana
Crown Point native Chris Payne was arrested for the 2018 sexual assault of a woman, which he has adamantly claimed from the beginning that he had nothing to do with.
Mark Leeman told an Indiana appeals panel that investigators were so determined to convict Allen that they used statements he made while mentally deteriorating behind bars, and kept out of trial a witness sketch that looked nothing like him.
A Porter County Sheriff's officer has been fired after he was arrested for driving while intoxicated over the weekend.
A man was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after firing shots at an Indiana State Police trooper and fleeing the scene on Friday afternoon in rural LaPorte County.
The school's superintendent said they're still recovering from the August storm that hit Northwest Indiana and left residents without power for days.
The request through FEMA would provide grants for temporary housing and damage repair.
The deal would drop weapon enhancements from Grafton's charges, which could reduce a potential sentence by 20 years.
Labor talks resumed Monday between union workers and the BP Whiting refinery in Lake County, Indiana.
An off-duty Gary firefighter has been arrested on multiple charges, accused of hitting an Indiana State Police trooper's SUV before driving away while under the influence.
An 85-year-old man from Crown Point, Indiana, was arrested this past weekend on accusations of shooting his wife.
Amazon packages spilled onto I-80/94 after a crash involving a semi-truck in Gary, Indiana.
Kenneth Williams Sr., 67, was shot and killed by nine officers in downtown Gary on Aug. 30.
Kenneth Williams Sr., 67, was shot and killed by nine officers in downtown Gary on Aug. 30.
Indiana State Police said a Sunday traffic stop led to them finding $3.8 million worth of cocaine.
The Michigan City Police Department and the Joliet Police Department have launched an investigations into officers for possible misuse of their Flock camera systems.
NIPSCO is responding power outages in Northwest Indiana Thursday evening, the majority in Gary.
Judge Nancy Rosenstengel found the Forest Service approved a southern Illinois logging project in October 2024 without waiting for a Fish and Wildlife Service opinion that later confirmed endangered Indiana bats lived in the project area.
