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LAKE STATION — Firefighters spent hours battling a blaze as it tore through several businesses in a shopping center early Tuesday.

GARY — A 40-year-old man was wounded in a shooting Sunday in the city's Aetna neighborhood, police said.

A jack-knifed semi in a median on Interstate 65 just north of the Ind. 2 exit was expected to cause traffic delays during Tuesday morning's commute, police said.

SCHERERVILLE — The developer proposing a redo of the denied Amberleigh subdivision will have to come back with a plan in mind, the Plan Commission’s attorney said during last week's study session.

Residents of Lake County Nursing & Rehabilitation Center were evacuated late Monday evening after motor in one of the elevators on the property caught fire, said East Chicago Fire Chief Anthony Serna.

HAMMOND — Darryl Hall, 40, of Gary, was sentenced before Hammond District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen on his guilty plea to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II announced.

INDIANAPOLIS — Students attending the Gary Community School Corp. in the fall will ride to class on all-new school buses thanks to a transportation contract approved Monday that also saves the cash-strapped district more than $1 million a year.

HIGHLAND — The Redevelopment Commission last week took steps to assist the financing of the Cardinal Campus.

CROWN POINT — A 19-year-old man is accused of videotaping a sexual encounter he had last fall with a 17-year-old girl in Highland.

CROWN POINT — A 34-year-old man charged in three separate shootings in Gary pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of criminal recklessness.