CROSS COUNTRY: Valparaiso chases past glory
It has been 14 years since Valparaiso’s last title, but a young Vikings team hopes to change that after semistate championships in 2016 and 2017.
Month: September 2018
Week 6 high school football previews
Check out the breakdown of key Week 6 area prep football games.
Gary expatriates welcomed back to offer ideas to improve the city
Having dropped in population from 180,000 residents to under 80,000, the city of Gary has a wealth of expatriates.
Sentencing options for Cosby include prison, jail, probation
PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby could be sent to prison next week for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
Gary man sentenced to almost 9 years federal prison for Munster cellphone store robbery
A Gary man was sentenced Thursday to almost nine years in federal prison for a violent robbery at a Munster cellphone store in August 2017.
Ground-level ozone continues to damage health, even at low levels
Ground-level ozone is one of six major pollutants regulated nationally under the Clean Air Act. It is not directly emitted, but instead forms in the atmosphere through reactions between other pollutants from cars, power plants and industrial sources.
Health officials, nonprofits need to do more to curb smoking rates among certain groups
Melvin Stubbs knows smoking cigarettes could give him heart disease, lung cancer or kill him. He said his habit hurts his wife and parents, who often urge him to quit.
There are ways to eat well even when you’re cooking for one
Some seniors need meals for just one, but are they cooking them? Should they?
Trial scheduled for man charged in 2016 fatal shooting of Hammond woman
CROWN POINT — A jury trial is scheduled in February for a man charged with accidentally shooting and killing a 23-year-old friend while unloading a gun in Hammond.
State board approves deal hiking Toll Road truck rates in exchange for Indiana getting $1 billion
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Toll Road rates for trucks and other heavy vehicles with more than two axles will jump 35 percent on Oct. 5 in exchange for the state receiving $1 billion from the operator of the leased highway.