Hammond News

We have known since the 1990s that James "Whitey" Bulger was a secret FBI informant going back to the 70s.

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.

The family of a woman left with brain damage after an accident during the filming of "Transformers 3" in Indiana has reached an $18.5 million settlement with Paramount Pictures.

The high-class atmosphere and luxurious surroundings the Horseshoe has to offer make their boxing shows a Las Vegas-style night of boxing that Chicago-area fans don't have to get on a plane to enjoy.

Rapper and actor Snoop Dogg will throw out the first pitch before Thursday's game between the White Sox and Minnesota Twins at U.S. Cellular Field.

It was announced today that Paramount has reached an $18.5 million settlement with Gabriella Cedillo, the extra who suffered a severe head trauma on the set of the Transformers 3 film A on September 1, 2010.

The family of a woman left with brain damage after an accident during the filming of "Transformers 3" has reached an $18.5 million settlement with Paramount Pictures.Gabriela Cedillo was working as an extra in 2010 when she was hit in the head by a piece of flying metal during the filming of a stunt sequence in Hammond, Ind.

WHITING, Ind. - BP North America Inc. has agreed to install $400 million in new air pollution controls at its northwestern Indiana oil refinery and pay an $8 million fine under a deal announced Wednesday with the government and environmental groups.

Gabriella Cedillo, then 24, was airlifted to hospital after being hit in the head as she drove a car during a stunt in September 2010.

Hammond is up there in the northwest corner of the most northwest county in the state.

The Grammy Award-winning country trio Lady Antebellum performed a "mini-prom" for students from Henryville High School, which was destroyed in a tornado in March.

A political science professor at a Purdue University regional campus in northwest Indiana has sued school officials and other professors for the treatment he received after he wrote Facebook postings that criticized Muslims.

HAMMOND, Ind. - Three teachers at a northwestern Indiana high school have been suspended with pay for mishandling an essay question that was used on a state assessment test.

White Lodging announced Denise Milroy has been promoted to lead the Fairfield Inn & Suites in Hammond, IN as its new general manager.

This is interesting: the map of polling places in Hammond, Indiana is made by the Hammond Sanitary District GIS Department and built on free software , something worthy of note in the local paper.

I took this photograph last October. Seen here is the East 95th Street drawbridge over the Calumet River, on the far southeast side of Chicago near the state line border at Hammond Indiana.

The Gibson yard serves northwest Indiana and Chicago suburbs, in Hammond, Ind. Federal, state, local and industry officials are trying to get the delays out of Chicago's rail system.

About 46 bus drivers and other employees of First Transit, a compnay that provides staffing for the Hammon transit system, face layoffs if a new source of money isn't found quickly.

An Indiana University Kelley School of Business Indianapolis student, who was a victim of a horrific crime, reflects on the obstacles he overcame as his graduation date approaches.

HAMMOND, Ind. - A series of threatening, expletive-filled voice mail messages have resulted in a northwestern Indiana man being charged with retaliating against a federal official by threat and threatening President Barack Obama.