Craig Lyons

Defense attorneys for Portage Mayor James Snyder attempted to block a jury from hearing undercover recordings that prosecutors say further elaborate on the scheme to solicit bribes. Federal prosecutors said...

As federal prosecutors played a series of undercover recordings documenting an alleged $12,000 bribe paid to Portage Mayor James Snyder, defense attorneys cried foul over the evidence. During the 10th...

A Hobart tow operator wanted to do the right thing to get work for his company. Scott Jurgensen, owner of Samson’s Towing, allegedly went to Portage Mayor James Snyder to...

A Merrillville woman who was convicted of using Gary funds to buy more than 1,000 iPads wants a new trial. Monique Bowling-Boyd’s attorney has asked federal Judge Philip Simon to...

A Northwest Indiana senator is again pushing for the state to create a paid leave program to help working Hoosiers. Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Portage, presented a bill Wednesday to create...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving people more time to comment on the proposed cleanup of a lead- and arsenic-contaminated former housing complex in East Chicago. The EPA said...

A tow operator cooperating with the FBI said he always wanted to get on the towing lists of Region communities honestly. In Portage, the tow operator testified Tuesday that he...

A company that aimed to win a Portage contract for garbage trucks knew something was not right when no one from the city would look at the equipment he planned...

Federal prosecutors have said they had enough evidence to charge Portage Mayor James Snyder with additional crimes but did not pursue the case. Comments and testimony during Snyder’s public corruption...

Federal prosecutors on Friday showed that Portage Mayor James Snyder could not have acted as a consultant to justify a $13,000 check they say is an alleged bribe. During the...