Hammond News

HAMMOND, Ind. -- President Barack Obama is nominating a veteran federal prosecutor to become the U.S. attorney for Northern Indiana.

A court in Turin has approved a U.S. extradition request for a fugitive American doctor accused of fraud and malpractice who was found in a tent near Mont Blanc, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Prosecutors have charged a woman with leaving her 5-month-old daughter under the porch of a northwestern Indiana house and then telling police the girl had been kidnapped during a carjacking.

The Regional Bus Authority board took several actions Monday afternoon to pave the way for taking over Hammond's bus service on Jan.

Doctors in Italy gave permission Monday for police to question a fugitive American doctor who was found in a tent at the snowy foot of Mont Blanc last week, a hospital spokesman said.

A 37-year-old Indiana woman was injured in a one-vehicle rollover crash Monday afternoon on Interstate 43 in which snowy weather was a factor, the Wisconsin State Patrol reported.

Laughter and excitement from 100 selected members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Indiana recently filled the South Shore Convention & Visitors Authority building in Hammond during a Christmas party sponsored by Majestic Star Casino.

An American doctor accused of fraud and malpractice in the United States has been arrested while hiding on a mountain in Italy, and he stabbed himself in the neck as he was being taken into custody, police said Thursday.

Councilwoman JoAnn Matonovich, 53, died Sunday of natural causes. Matonovich died at her mother's home, said her brother, Ron Matonovich, late Sunday.

HAMMOND, Ind. - A former Purdue University graduate student convicted of threatening to kill President George W. Bush and others in Internet postings has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.

Santa spent a little extra time in the stable Saturday, but he wasn't checking on the reindeer in advance of his Christmas Eve flight.

A Gary mother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Lake County Juvenile Center and Lake County Council over the death of her 14-year-old son last year.

IIT alumnus Vikram Buddhi, who has been in a US federal prison since 2006 for posting hate messages against former President George Bush, will be produced before a court near Chicago on Friday for his sentencing.

State highway officials are considering whether to tear down a 1¼-mile bridge on a northwestern Indiana expressway rather than make extensive repairs after shutting it down nearly a month ago.

A second Hammond teen has been charged with attempted murder in a Dec. 2 shooting that critically injured a woman.

A man shot by a Gary police officer is suing him, saying the officer intentionally shot him when the officer responded to a call about a burglary.

It's become an annual winter tale: A young boy gets his tongue stuck to a metal pole, perhaps as the result of a dare.

A 19-year-old Hammond man is in custody on attempted murder and other charges in a shooting that critically wounded a woman who was standing in her enclosed porch.

A Hammond man has been charged in Lake Superior Court with attempted murder, battery and three counts of criminal recklessness after he shot into an apartment where a man, his girlfriend and young child were.

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