Portage News

PORTAGE, Ind. - Two decades after a college student was found slain in her apartment with a rug thrown over her body, the woman's mother says she fears the killing will never be solved.

Dozens of people who live within the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore celebrated their final Thanksgiving in their homes Thursday, months before the government is set to take possession of their properties.

The Porter County Health Department has conducted H1N1 flu immunization clinics at every school in Porter County, with one exception.

Since early 2008, the number of people using the Child Support Service office at the Porter County Courthouse has dropped from 3,000 to 965.

Leigh Morris wanted to set the record straight about the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority, disputing what he calls 10 misconceptions and misinterpretations about the agency, mostly lodged by Porter County officials.

A Porter resident and a Portage resident were arrested Thursday on a charge of theft after Chesterton Police said that they stole scrap from Doler Heating and Cooling at 1575 S. Calumet Road.

For most of the audience at Portage High School's fall play, "Rebel without a Cause," it won't be just another opening of another show.

Nearly everyone who hoped to get answers about ArcelorMittal's proposed landfill -- including "Easterly's Pile" -- and what's going in it walked away disappointed Wednesday.

Two Fort Wayne men were charged Sunday in connection with a robbery at a near north-side coin-operated laundry earlier in the day, police said.

Most people visit Chicago's Shedd Aquarium to see and learn about sea creatures.

PORTAGE, Ind. - A late-night explosion that shook Beta Steel Corp.'s northern Indiana hot-strip rolling mill injured eight workers, six of whom required medical care.

The well-forested neighborhood along Lakewood Avenue off Hamstrom Road seems to have been planned for the Portage Youth Commission's annual leaf-raking program.

People might wonder if Ron Hancock has been sipping from the Fountain of Youth. His sparkling eyes, quick smile and the spring in his step belie the fact that he retired three years ago after 43 years of teaching high school social studies, 40 of them at Portage High School.

Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Ross Boswell sentenced a Portage man to three years in prison for stealing a Lake Station couple's debit-credit card.

Robert Kwak has a pre-existing condition that led to his recent diagnosis of terminal multiple myeloma.

Porter County property owners will see that tax rates dropped when they open the 2009 tax bills which are expected to go out this month.

On September 25, 2005, Vincent Glover, 38, saw a woman walking on Vermont Street near a Metra train station and came up behind her and put a knife to her throat.

Keep off the grass and stay on the trails! That's the urgent request of the National Park Service for regular visitors at the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk until next summer.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 1:25 pm US/Central PORTAGE, Ind. A northwest Indiana man pulled over for drunken driving early Thursday allegedly told the state trooper: "Dude, I do this every night." Police said he was more than four times over the state's legal blood alcohol limit.

Two Lake Station men have been charged with felony theft for allegedly stealing $25,000 in gold chains.