I’m waiting for a heart transplant
My grandma died from heart surgery complications when I was a teenager, and my dad died from a massive heart attack at age 46. I had my heart attack at the same age. I had cardiomyopathy, like my dad.
Month: February 2019
The Times is looking for Northwest Indiana’s best nurses
Nursing is a demanding profession with more skills and challenges than ever before. Nursing professionals do far more than most people imagine — and their impact is enormous.
Local DIYer hopes to make it on TV’s ‘Making It’
VALPARAISO — Ask Sara Tamez to describe what she does, and she says, simply, “I’m a maker.”
Futures File: Gasoline gears higher
Gas prices are starting to climb again, hitting drivers at the pump. After dropping to a three-year low recently, prices rebounded by over 30 cents per gallon.
Where in the world is my polling place? Lake County officials still fighting over locations
CROWN POINT — Polling place anxiety is rising among Lake voters who feel like refugees because of a controversial scrambling of the county’s political map.
News briefs: Grave site tours, reflections of Italy and more
Valpo Chain of Lakes meeting, lecture rescheduled
Grammar Guy: How do you plead?
I’m sure pleats will eventually come back into style. I still remember the pleated khakis I wore to church in the mid-1990s. My Dockers brand double-pleated pants complemented my penny loafers to perfection to create that “nice-Baptist-guy-all-the-girl…
Visit nearby Underground Railroad sites, trails to honor Black History Month — in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio
It was a journey of 1,000 miles, all on foot, that took William Bush — escaping slavery in Mississippi — to Fountain City, Indiana, and refuge in the home of Levi and Catherine Coffin.
Raped, strangled and set ablaze: Lansing woman tells story of survival
LANSING — Faced with life behind bars, Carleous Clay asked a judge for a final day of freedom just moments before his Jan. 11 sentencing for kidnapping, stabbing, raping and setting on fire Diane Pranske.