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Valparaiso School Board President Robert Behrend listens as Vice President Erika Watkins says two residents took the air out of the room when they asked for Behrend’s resignation during the school board meeting on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. Resident Kathy Watts provided the board with a Christmas card and property tax bills indicating Behrend now lives in Wisconsin. (Doug Ross/for Post-Tribune)

Valparaiso School Board president’s Wisconsin address prompts pressure for his ouster

January 24, 2025 at 1:01 p.m.

Two residents asked for Dr. Robert Behrend’s resignation from the Valparaiso School Board, citing evidence he now lives in Wisconsin, just minutes after he was elected president of the Valparaiso...

Former Valparaiso University President Mark Heckler passes a medal to newly inaugurated President Jose Padilla on Saturday, October 30, 2021. (Kyle Telechan for the Post-Tribune)

Valparaiso University President José Padilla announces end of year retirement

January 22, 2025 at 4:01 p.m.

Valparaiso University President José Padilla announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of the calendar year, capping a five-year tenure which saw disruptions on campus caused by the...

A sign on a truck in the parking lot of Geisen Funeral Home at the funeral of 10-year old Dakota Levi Stevens, calls for answers to his death, Monday, May 6, 2024, in Crown Point. (Vincent D. Johnson/for the Post-Tribune)

Former foster mom sentenced to five years in prison, one on probation, in boy’s death

January 17, 2025 at 4:31 p.m.

Jennifer Lee Wilson, the Valparaiso area woman who pleaded guilty to a felony count of reckless homicide in the death of her foster son, Dakota Levi Stevens, will serve five...

A DG Market is slated to open in Hebron in the late summer on Costin Drive, on the town's south side. When Patz's Market closed in Nov. 2017, the town was left without a grocery store. (Amy Lavalley/Post-Tribune)

Hebron getting grocery store after seven years without one: ‘We don’t want to be a food desert anymore’

January 13, 2025 at 12:59 p.m.

When Patz's Market in Hebron closed in November 2017, the small town in southern Porter County was left without a grocery store. Community leaders spent the last five years trying...

Tina Nabhan, right, and her husband Nedal stayed at the Royal Sonesta for New Years. The terrorist attack on Jan. 1, 2025, occurred in front of their hotel, pictured in the background, hours after this picture was taken. (Tina Nabhan/provided)

Witness recounts horror of New Orleans terrorist attack: ‘It still doesn’t even seem real’

January 6, 2025 at 3:25 p.m.

Tina Nabhan said she and her husband, Nedal, frequently travel to New Orleans from their Portage home. What the Nabhans didn't expect was to be awakened early on New Year's...

Porter man’s hearing on probation revocation postponed because his attorneys quit

January 3, 2025 at 3:13 p.m.

A Porter man whose securities fraud case has stretched on for more than a decade will remain in Porter County Jail at least until an April hearing on whether his...

Hobart man guilty in Chesterton bartender’s death dies in state prison

December 24, 2024 at 11:03 a.m.

The man convicted in the April 2017 murder of a Chesterton bartender died Friday at the Miami Correctional Level 3 Facility near Peru, the Miami County coroner has confirmed.

Robert Barr, on right, mimics the motion of an officer pulling out their vest as he and his wife Laura speak about a lawsuit they filed against St. John Police on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

St. John man files federal suit against town police after criminal charges against him were dismissed

December 22, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Robert Barr’s criminal charges were ultimately dismissed after his attorney successfully argued that his Fourth Amendment rights had been violated when police forced themselves into his home without his permission...

Porter fraudster facing new legal challenge from Airbnb guest bitten by dog

December 15, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

While Donald M. Johnson fends off a fresh round of criminal charges and works to pay back the hundreds of thousands of dollars he owes victims of his real estate...

The Porter County Courthouse in Valparaiso, Indiana.

Porter County judge: Donald Johnson to remain in jail without bond

December 13, 2024 at 2:13 p.m.

Donald M. Johnson will remain in Porter County Jail at least until his next hearing in early January after a judge found him to be both a danger to the...

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