Tortoise returned after 2 weeks on the lam

3 July 2008, 10:57 am

A 60-pound tortoise that escaped from a family's garage last month is back home after a 21 2-week adventure lumbering around three northwestern Indiana towns.... read more

Jury hears accused killer on tape

2 July 2008, 6:15 am

Jurors on Wednesday heard a profanity-laced recording of accused killer Victor A. Hernandez asking a Hammond officer how long his sentence might be as they rode to the police station for booking.... read more

Convicted heroin dealer gets second chance

30 June 2008, 5:55 am

A convicted heroin dealer in Indiana has been given a break -- just a three-day jail term that gives her a chance to fix her troubled life, her attorney says.... read more

DEA links Indiana meth ring to biker gang

28 June 2008, 5:37 am

HAMMOND, Ind. -- Federal authorities have linked at least some of the people indicted as part of a methamphetamine ring to a white-supremacist motorcycle club.... read more

Hammond, Ind. 'Post-Tribune' Not Guilty of Discrimination

26 June 2008, 8:02 am

HAMMOND, Ind. A white former employee of the Post-Tribune failed to prove that managers at the newspaper denied her a promotion to head its Gary bureau because they wanted a black person in the job, a U.S. ...... read more

Ex-Lake Co. recorder wins new hearing

24 June 2008, 11:11 pm

HAMMOND, Ind. -- A federal appeals court has ordered a judge to hold a new sentencing hearing for former Lake County Recorder Morris Carter, who was sentenced to 51 months in prison for his conviction on ...... read more

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