Munster News

Lake County Surveyor George Van Til entered the pleas to six felony counts of wire fraud and two counts of obstruction of justice in U.S. District Court in Hammond.

Indiana counties could be forced to pay some of the costs of a change in the state's criminal code that is designed to keep low-level offenders out of prison while ensuring the worst serve more of their sentences.

The Times of Munster and the Merrillville Post-Tribune reported Councilman Al Salinas changed his plea to guilty Monday during a hearing in U.S. District Court.

Indiana school districts that won voters' approval last week for the majority of the tax increases they had sought to boost school funding may be becoming more skilled at selling the public on the need for those tax hikes, say experts who've tracked Indiana's school referendums for several years.

When Frances Wulf , 92, made the decision to stop driving and sell her car, she began to look for her next step.

School districts shouldn't be forced to woo taxpayers with political campaigns to improve schools, the state's top education official said Wednesday.

A general fund referendum to raise an additional $3 million in local taxes for seven years passed easily, receiving 65 percent of the vote.

The Lake County Council voted 4-3 Monday in favor of starting the 1.5 percent tax.

Voting is underway until 6 p.m. in Munster and in Union Township and Hebron in Porter County as school districts seek voters' approval to raise school taxes.

Police in northwestern Indiana say an 18-year-old man died in a crash while he was fleeing from an officer.

School Town of Munster Superintendent Richard Sopko fixes his gaze at the bottom line of his district's future and begins to grumble.

For two years now, police in Munster, Ind. have been searching for an eye doctor who vanished.

This year Dark Lord Day , the annual beer and metal festival that's also the only place that Three Floyds Brewing of Munster, Indiana, sells its famous Dark Lord Russian imperial stout, fell on Saturday, April 27.

Police acting on a tip arrested a suspect in the abduction and slaying of a 76-year-old Northwest Indiana woman who was found shot to death last month in a casino's parking garage.

Maria DiLuciano , 89, passed away Sunday, April 21, 2013 in Munster, Indiana. She was born in Messina, Sicily on July 20, 1923 and emigrated from Italy to Lorain with her husband, Vito, in 1956 to start a new Click here to read this story on The Chronicle-Telegram.Content copyright The Chronicle-Telegram. Your #1 source for Lorain County News.

Police acting on a tip arrested a suspect in the abduction and slaying of a 76-year-old Northwest Indiana woman who was found shot to death last month in a casino's parking garage.