Crown Point News

CROWN POINT, Ind. - A northwestern Indiana judge says a lawyer whose client has run out of money must continue to defend him against a murder charge without receiving a legal fee.

History buffs got an up-close look at the role local residents played in the Civil War during a weekend-long reenactment by the Colonel John Wheeler's Company B 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry.

Tom Anderson of AE Electric and Paul Hoopengarner of P H Current Electric Co. work on installing an electrical vehicle charging station in the garage of homeowner Lowell Estes in Crown Point, Ind.

CROWN POINT, Ind. - A Merrillville teen has pleaded guilty to an amended charge of voluntary manslaughter in the July slaying of an 80-year-old Gary high school teacher.

Charles Bartlett of Hammond gets ready to board a bus after attending a Lake County Council meeting at the Government Center in Crown Point, Ind.

CROWN POINT, Ind. - Lake Superior Court Judge Thomas Stefaniak Jr. said he was reluctant to accept a plea agreement calling for probation for a retired firefighter who shot his ex-wife in the head.

There are nearly 750,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S. But how many of them are using names that are not on state lists of sex offenders when they should be? Laws in Illinois, Indiana and other states require sex offenders to register every year.

Six Indiana craft brewers gained eight medals, including 3 Gold, at the 2012 World Beer Cup Bi-annual Competition in San Diego, May 2-5, competing against 799 breweries from 54 countries and 45 U.S. states entering 3,921 beers in 95 beer style categories.

No. 13 Purdue rallied for 10 runs in the ninth inning to overcome a five-run deficit and stun No.

Indiana authorities are investigating the death of a bridge construction worker who was apparently crushed by a piece of equipment last Monday.

An unusually dry spring up helped stave off severe flooding problems typically expected when more than a couple inches of rain fall in a short period of time.

Fajman has roughly two years' head start on the pack, having been voted into the office by caucus to replace former Recorder Mike Brown when he left to become county clerk.

CROWN POINT, Ind. - A northwest Indiana man faces a maximum 40-year sentence after he admitted that he killed his 2-month-old daughter because she wouldn't stop crying when he wanted to smoke synthetic marijuana.

The United States seems to have two plans to deal with what is fast becoming a civil war in Syria.

CROWN POINT, Ind. - Authorities in northwestern Indiana began a search of a Gary -area man's property for human remains after his girlfriend told her father about a killing.

CROWN POINT, Ind. - A long-vacant former nurses' dormitory has gotten a shot in the arm on its way to becoming a regional cultural arts center.