Laporte County News

On Friday, the two-year-old girl who was found murdered last week in LaPorte County will be laid to rest.

A teenager has pleaded guilty to vandalizing 15 buses belonging to a northern Indiana school district, which caused officials to cancel classes for more than 2,700 students.

The Lake County prosecutor says his office is undertaking a death penalty review against two defendants charged with the murder of two-year-old Jada Justice.

CROWN POINT, Ind. a * 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.

Although Thursday's deaths of international pop culture icons Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett will surely overshadow the homicide of a Northwest Indiana toddler, Jada Justice's death is, sadly , the outcome most of us expected, isn't it? The extensive and exhaustive nine-day search for 2-year-old Jada Justice of Portage has come to an end, ...

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The gruesome, callous and sordid details of Jada Justice's demise were revealed Friday when prosecutors charged the 2-year-old girl's cousin and her boyfriend with her murder.

The death of a 2-year-old northwest Indiana girl who had been missing for a week has been ruled a homicide.

A body believed to be that of a missing northwest Indiana toddler has been found in a field about 30 miles away from where the girl was last reported seen.

LaPorte County Police are looking for the driver of a pickup truck that hit and killed a pedestrian early Saturday morning near Michigan City.

A pedestrian hit by a sport utility vehicle on U.S. 20 was alive before a second vehicle drove around a makeshift barricade and hit the pedestrian a second time, police say.

Police say they have arrested a driver who fled the scene of a fatal accident in LaPorte County early Saturday.

A 25-year-old Chicago man was found dead on U.S. 20 just east of the city early Saturday, the apparent victim of a hit-and-run. LaPorte County Police Sgt.

After a small dip in April, the state's jobless rate hiked up to 10.6 percent in May according to the most recent data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.

If you plan to beat the heat by taking a dip this weekend, we have a warning for you.

Young women in LaPorte County can now get the HPV vaccine for free. Health officials say they have doses of Gardasil available for females ages 9 through 26.

A reminder from St. Joseph County Treasurer Sean Coleman: Friday is the deadline for property taxpayers in New Carlisle and Olive Township to submit their 2007 payments.

Regional planners are tweaking their list of road and bridge projects approved for federal funding as the final amounts of stimulus dollars under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the region become known.

Southern LaPorte County is under a flash flood warning until 8 a.m. Thursday. Communities in the warning area include Kingsford Heights, Kingsbury, Tracy, South Center, Salem Heights, Thomaston, Stillwell and Fish Lake.

When the Porter County Council meets Thursday to get a status on this year's property tax bills, they should hear some good news for a change.