Portage News

Funerals will be held Friday morning for two young murder victims -a 9-year-old Chicago girl and a northwest Indiana toddler.

The sole adult in a series of burglaries of downtown Chesterton businesses pleaded to one burglary charge Monday.

The northwest Indiana man accused of burning 2-year-old Jada Justice's dead body and encasing it in concrete was shot with a Taser before court on Monday morning.

A baby sitter and her boyfriend were charged Friday with killing a toddler whose body was encased in concrete and dumped in a swampy area in northwest Indiana.

We now know the cause of death of a Portage toddler found in LaPorte County Thursday afternoon.

CROWN POINT, Ind. - Officials have identified a body found in northwest Indiana as that of a missing Portage toddler, and the child's baby sitter and her boyfriend have been charged with her murder.

Police have scheduled a 5 p.m. news conference, possibly to announce charges in the case of a missing 2-year-old from Portage, Ind., the NWI Times reported.

State Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Ogden Dunes, is making a last-minute push for increased state funding for adult education.

Nine people have been charged with felony theft charges for a scam that netted $4,450 from a Portage loan maker.

Three people have been charged in conjunction with a June 17 drug sting operation in South Haven, including the confidential informant who made the buy.

Authorities are offering a $6,000 reward for information to help find a missing toddler in Hobart, Ind.

Family members say they are suspicious about the way the cousin of a 2-year-old girl told authorities the child went missing from outside a northwestern Indiana convenience store.

The bleachers on the north end of the Portage High School West auditorium were packed with proud family and friends.

Dear Fixer: Since mid-November, my neighbors and I have had a horrible problem with our Verizon phone service.

The Survivors Lap that began the 11th annual American Cancer Society Relay for Life at Willowcreek Middle School included several victims who had never been diagnosed with the disease.

Matthew Clark, 26, of Hobart, was arrested at 2:40 p.m. Monday for residential entry, intimidation and interfering with the reporting of a crime.

Ten felony charges have been filed against a Union Township man who the Porter County Sheriff's Police said was intoxicated and under the influence of cocaine and marijuana when he crashed his motorcycle in May on C.R. 350S in Porter Township, in an accident which killed his passenger.

Two Portage High School students presented differing pictures Wednesday of a boy accused of intimidating and harassing his peers on a Portage school bus.

Talk about planning with a gun to your head. In Burns Harbor, it's an AK-47. The town faces a June 30 deadline to complete adoption of a replacement zoning ordinance and zoning map; if Monday's three-hour meeting is any evidence, there's still much work to do.

PORTAGE The last of a shipment of giant wind turbine parts was unloaded Tuesday at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan.