Griffith News

Senior Services special day: Senior Services will host health screenings for seniors and a continental breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday at Merrillville Town Hall, 7820 Broadway.

Temperatures are set to soar across New South Wales today and farmers are being encouraged to hold off on harvesting their crops because of the fire danger.

Cline Avenue runs right through the town's eastern-most side, but its indefinite closure shouldn't affect traffic in town at all.

A Hammond woman has been charged in Lake Superior Court in Crown Point with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.

The South Shore Centre for the Arts celebrated its first birthday Sunday with a dance performance, the opening of the "From ... Now ... On ..." photography exhibit, and a wine and cheese reception.

In the years before the Little Calumet River flooded Gary, Griffith, Hammond, Highland and Munster in 2006-2008, residents and businesses saw a future without flood insurance.

The first local road project financed with federal stimulus dollars is under way in Hobart.

Applications for the Christmas Assistance program are available from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, through Nov.

It's the great -- big -- pumpkin, Charlie Brown, a whole bunch of them in fact, and they are being used here to pay homage to the Peanuts' Halloween tradition.

Fire gutted Kelly-Carroll Cremation Services on Friday night as flames spread from a cremation chamber and ignited the building.

Five people have been charged with battery in an attack on a man Wednesday morning.

Hospice fundraiser: Tickets are available until Monday noon for the dinner prepared by Chef Arthur Stark, owner of Scarborough Faire Cafe & Bakery.

Property tax caps and dwindling local revenues present a number of problems for local governments -- deficits, layoffs and fewer services.

Police are searching for a suspect who robbed a man at the gas pumps Thursday at the Speedway, 9299 Broadway.

Financial education workshop: The Crown Point Community Library, 214 S. Court St., will conduct a free financial education workshop presented by First Midwest Bank of Crown Point at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Psst! Rudy! Rudy Clay! Listen up. Set aside all your grand plans for Michael Jackson memorials and downtown renovation and focus on this.

'SUMMurdER CAMP: M & M Productions' Center Stage Studio Theatre, 227 Center St., presents an alternative to the regular haunted houses.

Planned Parenthood would like to come to Griffith, but the family planning clinic is exploring all its options after a well-attended Oct.

H i, my name is Cody. I'm a medium-sized, young, male shepherd mix with beautiful black fur.

GPS devices taken in Griffith break-ins overnight: Three Griffith residents reported the theft of GPS devices from their vehicles late Monday or Tuesday morning.