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HAMMOND — Police are urging people to be on high alert after a woman was raped in an alleyway Tuesday night while walking her dog.

HOBART — Two more teenagers have come forward with accusations of rape and molestation against a former game store owner arrested last week on child molestation charges.

HOBART — Murder charges were filed Friday afternoon against Christopher G. Traicoff in a Wheatfield woman's strangling death.

HAMMOND — A Lake County contractor is prepared to plead guilty to cheating the Gary Housing Authority to win a federal construction contract.

CROWN POINT — David Johnson III, the final defendant still charged in the 2015 murder of two teenage brothers in Hobart, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts kidnapping for his role in their deaths.

CROWN POINT — Two men charged in a state witness' murder at a Gary diner in 2010 will appear at trial in August.

CROWN POINT — A street gang allegedly ordered the murder two years ago of Thaddeus Rodriguez Jr. near his home in East Chicago.

CROWN POINT — An 18-year-old man allegedly attempted to shoot his ex-girlfriend while she was with a new boyfriend Tuesday in Hammond.

HAMMOND — The federal government will keep what little cash agents seized from former Sheriff John Buncich.

CROWN POINT — A 49-year-old man was charged Thursday with child molestation on allegations he groped a 12-year-old girl last summer at a Merrillville home.