Off the Charts: Holiday heartbreak for retailers
NEW YORK — The holiday season was a brutal one for U.S. retailers, especially department stores and companies that sell luxury products, and companies and investors alike didn’t see it coming.
Month: January 2019
Boyfriend of Griffith homicide victim facing slew of charges in unrelated cases asks for bond reduction
CROWN POINT — A Hobart man who’s facing a slew of charges and was targeted in a botched robbery that led to the shooting death of his girlfriend wants his bond reduced, but prosecutors want to keep him behind bars.
SPORTS BRIEFS: Munster Babe Ruth to hold registration
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Bid process ‘was being done illegally,’ former Portage official told FBI
HAMMOND — The bid process for new garbage trucks was rigged, former Portage Street Superintendent Steve Charnetzky told jurors in Mayor James Snyder’s public corruption case.
Audra McDonald heading back to Broadway to star in romance
NEW YORK — Six-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald is heading back to Broadway to be a waitress — but not in “Waitress.”
Gary woman shot in her living room when gunfire erupts outside
GARY — A 36-year-old woman was shot in the back in her living room late Thursday when gunfire erupted outside her home, police said.
Man charged in fatal Winfield wreck wants bond reduction
CROWN POINT — A man charged in a four-car crash that killed a Winfield man last month wants his bond reduced.
Pedestrian airlifted after being hit by minivan while walking along U.S. 30 in Schererville
SCHERERVILLE — A 25-year-old man was flown by helicopter to an Illinois hospital late Thursday after he was hit by a minivan while walking along U.S. 30, police said.
Elderly Valpo woman dies after icy crash
LAPORTE — An 85-year-old Valparaiso woman has died as a result of injuries suffered in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon along an icy stretch of U.S. 20, east of Range Road in rural Kankakee Township, according to LaPorte County police.