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Terry Burkhart of School City of Hobart carries vehicle parts to a tow truck after a crash between a School City of Hobart bus and a Prompt van outside the Steel Yard at 5th Avenue and Virginia in Gary, Ind.

It could be about two more years before some lawsuits filed over last summer's State Fair stage collapse go to trial.

District superintendent Myrtle Campbell says that callbacks to work are unlikely because of the district's declining enrollment and budget troubles.

Nearly 170 teachers in the Gary Community Schools have been told they are facing layoffs.

The Kent State baseball team, coaching staff, family and friends gathered at Water Street Tavern to hear where Kent State would be playing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament this week.

GARY, Ind. - The U.S. Coast Guard in Northwest Indiana was searching for a plane that apparently went down in Lake Michigan late last night.

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.

Rebbie Jackson is the eldest child of the famous Jackson musical family and has had a long career as a R&B solo artist.

Except that BA has the Wildcats headed to my hometown of Gary, Indiana, which won't exactly be the college baseball experience of a lifetime.

It's nearly 2 AM and I'm sitting at a table outside at C.J. Arthur's in "downtown" Wilmette.A .A It's 84 degrees and the soft south wind is giving a Caribbean feel to the night.A A There's a young couple at a table to my left and at the table in front of me, a group of four woman and one man are engaged in lively conversation.A Maybe it's the ... (more)

The NCAA announced the names of the 16 sites for regional play this weekend, and neither Louisville nor Kentucky was selected as a host.

The sands of Big Mac have set the stage for heightened conflict between people and birds that could end with closing large sections of the beach to public use.

Rev. Jeffrey Thames, Sr. is photographed in Gary, Ind. Friday May 18, 2012 inside the abandoned downtown building where he discovered over 1,000 mortgage application files during a September visit to the building that is on a tax sale list.

The Wingnuts scored three runs in the eighth and beat Gary SouthShore 3-1 on Friday night in Gary, Ind.

SOUTH BEND Former University of Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh plans to go fishing on his 95th birthday.

SCHERERVILLE - Three men have been charged with killing 24-year-old Jacqueline Gardner and taking the tip money she earned from her restaurant job on May 19.

The Jackson Family Foundation will be welcoming all cast members to join the "Jackson Week of Celebrations" starting May 19th till May 25th, 2012.

It was summer time in the Chicago metro area and parts of the Midwest over the weekend as highs both days reached the lower 90s.

Classic Auto Insurance co-owenr Doug Rogge offers a steadying hand to Ricky Gatlin, engineering/maintance worker for Embassies of Christ, to negotiate the rubble after retrieving a lock box from the remains of Rogge's store at the south end of Diplomat Plaza off Cleveland in Gary, Ind.

GARY , Ind. - Part of a retail and office building collapsed in northwestern Indiana as a strong thunderstorm moved across the area.