Demotte News

When TJ Potts of Cedar Lake walked across the parking lot, he left life as he knew it.

Teresa Eenshuistra and her friends took part for the first time Sunday in Lorie's Ride, named for slain nurse Lorraine Kirkley and a fund-raiser for the Visiting Nurse Association of Porter County.

Clements drove east on Delavan Street toward Sangamon Street, thinking he was on Tremont Street.

Ryan Leestma, president and founder of Information Systems Intelligence in Grand Rapids, has not yet turned 30, but he's been in business for himself for nearly half his life.

Botanist David Hamilla talked about putting the flowers and leaves of yellow and purple violets in salads, and using their leaves for tea.

Interstate 65 was closed for 20 miles in both directions for more than 8 hours Thursday after three trucks -- including one carrying hazardous materials -- crashed about 3 miles south of the DeMotte exit.

If you've got a car filled with stolen merchandise, it's probably best not to hail a cop.

According to the charges filed, the Hendersons both got into a car knowing that Ricchio had been put into the trunk and then helped bury her body.

Two more people have been arrested in the case of a missing Jasper County, Indiana woman whose body was found buried in neighboring Newton County.

These days, everyone is looking for a bargain. So it shouldn't be a surprise that a new feature at the Porter County Expo Center is a monthly bargain bazaar, which will run all year.

Icy, slick roads have slowed traffic to a crawl throughout the region and have caused dozens of accidents and slide-offs, although traffic is improving as midday approaches, according to the state police.

Lake County prosecutors have filed murder charges against a 21-year-old man in the beating death of his girlfriend's 18-month-old son.

A crash involving a UPS semi-trailer and a car south of Rensselaer closed northbound Interstate 65 traffic for more than two hours early today.

Are there no plows left in Porter County? Indiana 49 and U.S. 6 look like mere country roads! Valparaiso schools had a two-hour delay Monday due to snow.

Contestants on the television reality series "Survivor" experienced life in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu a few years ago, but a local team received a more realistic, firsthand look at life on the ...

Voters Tuesday gave the Kankakee Valley School Corp. the go-ahead via a special election to pursue construction of a new middle school along with repairs and renovations to existing school buildings.

The voters have said yes to a $60 million Kankakee Valley Middle School and other projects.

A homeless man, who was living in the DeMotte area faces a sentence hearing, Feb.

Heroin use is on the rise in Jasper County and local police are beginning to calculate the numbers of arrests, overdoses and deaths to prove it.

Voters in the Kankakee Valley shool district will be asked during a special election Tuesday to approve a $60 million bond referendum for construction of a middle school and renovations in three existing ...