Traffic safety initiative targets distracted drivers
Distracted driving and speeding caused over 17,000 thousand crashes in Indiana in 2024. Of the crashes, 230 caused deaths.
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Distracted driving and speeding caused over 17,000 thousand crashes in Indiana in 2024. Of the crashes, 230 caused deaths.
Emmit Yarbrough Jr., 57, pleaded guilty to starting a fire in September 2022 in an abandoned building in Gary while the body of Deborah Leslie, 30, was inside.
“It’s a shame for you, Mr. Rogers, to have been involved in something so violent so young,” a judge told Jeremiah Rogers, 23, in court Thursday.
The 18-year-old teenager was ejected from the pickup truck, police said. It is unknown if he was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
There were no reported injuries from the 95 commuters on board the train at the time of the crash, Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Police Chief Jessie Watts Jr. said.
The 31-year-old man has not been charged but is in custody at the Lake County Jail, sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. said in a Facebook post Wednesday evening.
No one has been charged in connection to Jaylen or La’Montrell McFarland’s homicides. In La’Montrell’s case, it’s unclear who is investigating — or if anyone is at all.
The Merrillville Town Council elected not to take up an ordinance that would remove some of the Clerk-Treasurer’s responsibilities.
Erin Thurmond, 32, allegedly took $68,000 from the funeral home’s checking account and made $33,000 worth of Amazon purchases from her boss’ personal account.
The vote marked the end of a yearslong period of debate and litigation over the fate of the institution and came after a Lake County Judge ordered the council to reconsider an ordinance that was proposed last May.