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GARY — Three men were wounded in two separate shootings during the long holiday weekend, police said.

SCHERERVILLE — “Did your student struggle this school year?”

CROWN POINT — A routine traffic stop last week on Interstate 65 by Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez resulted in the seizure of more than four pounds of marijuana and hundreds of Xanax pills.

HAMMOND — Four people were displaced after a fire caused damage to a home Tuesday afternoon.

GARY — Police seized handguns and arrested two men who ran from an SUV involved in a pursuit early Saturday in the city's Glen Park section, an official said.

A Gary man was found dead Monday in the Cook County Jail in an apparent suicide, police said.

CALUMET TOWNSHIP — Lake County Sheriff's Department crime scene investigators are leading an investigation into the death of a Crown Point man found in the woods north of an apartment complex, a spokesman said.

INDIANAPOLIS — A Northwest Indiana state senator has been selected to participate in a leadership training and policy evaluation program annually offered by the nonpartisan Council of State Governments.

HOBART — The city is joining the redistricting reform bandwagon.

Two well-known organizations are opening charter schools in Gary next fall, both designed to help adults earn their high school diplomas.