Lake County Indiana

A northwestern Indiana City Council member and police officer has apologized after photos recently surfaced of him in blackface nearly 20 years ago at a Halloween party.

Police released video Thursday of a vehicle wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man last month in Gary, Indiana.

The state of Indiana is hoping to vaccinate more people for COVID-19, as Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Wednesday he’s expanding the age pool of those eligible to get vaccinated to those residents age 70 years and up. So far more than 40,000 Hoosiers who fall into that new age group have scheduled their appointments online to get the shot, according…

A 13-year-old girl who was leaning out the window of a car her older sister was driving died when the car left the roadway and she struck a utility pole, northwestern Indiana police said. Kelly Hume of Crown Point was pronounced dead after Saturday night’s single-car accident in the Lake County city, The (Northwest Indiana) Times reported. Investigators with the Lake...