Whiting News

Share + Dec 18, 2009 9:37 pm US/Central Reporting Pamela Jones WHITING, Ind. The owner of an apartment building is leaving his tenants out in the cold -- literally.

Gabe Garcia marvelled at the new, $4 million home of Ironworkers Local 395 and a statue honoring its fallen brothers and sisters.

That he didn't, didn't already have." Jason Delgado prepares apple crisp in the kitchen of Giovanni's Restaurant in Munster.

A Whiting man has been charged in back-to-back robberies at a Hammond bank branch.

The jury trial for a Whiting man charged with murder and neglect in the child abuse death of a Hammond toddler has been postponed until May.

"I know an Irishman who married a Ukrainian girl, and he was crazy about her mother's cooking.

The Regional Development Authority's working group agreed Thursday to recommend allocating an initial $500,000 to help the Regional Bus Authority take over and expand a route operated by the Hammond Transit Authority.

The Icons of Chromatography series continues with Kevin Schug from the University of Texas at Arlington talking to Harold McNair from Virginia Tech about his illustrious career in chromatography.

Women's Self Defense Class: The Schererville Police Department will be sponsoring a Women's Self Defense Class on Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Registration is a prerequisite.

The Brewster sisters take the stage with a cellar full of bodies and a nephew who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt in this comedy classic at 7:30 p.m. Oct.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is forcing the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to rewrite part of the air permit for BP's Whiting refinery.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it backed some demands by environmental groups asking it to object to an air permit to BP's refinery expansion in Whiting, Indiana.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Indiana regulators to rewrite an air permit for BP PLC's Whiting, Ind., refinery.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it has granted part of a petition by environmental groups objecting to BP Plca s expansion of its Whiting refinery in Indiana.

October 12, 1998, Greencastle, Ind. - Ferid Murad, a 1958 graduate of DePauw University and a native of Whiting, Ind., is one of three researchers today being awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in recognition of their work for discovering that nitric oxide functions as a signal molecule in the cardiovascular system.

WHITING, Ind. - Company officials say progress is being made on the $3.8 billion expansion of BP's oil refinery along Lake Michigan even as environmentalists continue legal fights against the project.

Seventeen years of directing the Lake County Surveyor's Office has taught George Van Til never to promise a drainage problem has been "resolved." Van Til, the keynote speaker during the Lake County Advancement Committee's monthly meeting Friday at Teibel's, is the first to say that there are many problems still with the 600 miles of legal drains ...

It's a 90-year prison sentence for the man who savagely attacked a 56-year-old woman in Rowen Park on Chicago's Southeast side last year.

Share + Oct 7, 2009 12:51 pm US/Central CHICAGO A northwest Indiana man has been sentenced to 90 years in prison for the brutal attack and rape of a woman while she was walking in a Far Southeast Side park last year.

Business roundtable meeting Thursday: The Northwest Indiana Business Roundtable and the American Society of Safety Engineers Greater Calumet Chapter will host a fall safety seminar from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Purdue Calumet's Conference Center, 2300 173rd St.