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CROWN POINT — A 37-year-old man was found guilty at trial Wednesday of child molestation on allegations he groped a girl two years ago in Dyer.

CROWN POINT — A criminal court judge ruled Thursday witnesses were permitted to discuss domestic abuse and child pornography allegations at the murder trial next month for Jovanni Torres.

EAST CHICAGO — A juvenile told police someone in a passing vehicle shot him in the leg Wednesday night as he was walking home in the 4800 block of Northcote Avenue.

GARY — Often the greatest obstacles the "other-abled" face are not physical limitations, but others focusing on their limitations and not their strengths.

People will soon be able to listen to beach concerts with their toes in the sand in East Chicago, and likely rent a jet ski or kayak on the Lake Michigan lakefront there.

Nearly 50 years ago, Ron Squok wrote a letter to his parents.

HIGHLAND — Mary Ragno filled boxes with canned goods, bread and lunch meat Wednesday and packed them into her vehicle at the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana's mobile food distribution program in Highland — but she had no plans of…

GRIFFITH — Town Democrats are not afraid to endorse new and unconventional candidates.

HAMMOND — Lake officials have fired a county courthouse janitor who filed an election complaint that he was asked to notarize candidates' applications on county time.

CROWN POINT — A warrant was issued Wednesday for a 53-year-old man accused of molesting a young girl at a home in Hammond.