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Bill aims to levy tax for infrastructure improvements

May 13, 2019 at 3:44 a.m.

Hoosiers are pushing back on a roads plan that includes a new tax and a vehicle registration fee to pay for infrastructure improvements. Representatives from groups including the Indiana Family...

Indiana bill thought to curb protests overhauled

May 13, 2019 at 3:43 a.m.

Sen. Lonnie Randolph reads the words "any means necessary" and thinks of civil rights protests, but then he saw the same words earlier this year in a proposal before the...

Indiana Supreme Court Justice Robert Rucker, originally of Gary, appeared Thursday with the state's other justices at Gary Roosevelt.

Career adjourned: Justice visits alma mater as career winds down

May 13, 2019 at 3:43 a.m.

Nearly 50 years after crossing the stage as a high school graduate, Robert Rucker returned to Roosevelt High School, but this time as a member of the Indiana Supreme Court....

Ex-offenders are congratulated before receiving their OSHA training certificates at the Lake County Corrections center.

Program helps ex-offenders bounce back

May 13, 2019 at 3:42 a.m.

All Tony Call wanted was a second chance. After spending four years in prison, he wanted an opportunity to work, earn a living and make his family proud. Only four...

Pastor Carlos Martinez presides over a Spanish language service at Our Lady of Guadalupe in East Chicago on Friday.

Churches adapt and buttress communities

May 13, 2019 at 3:41 a.m.

Many nights, Michael Matiscik sits in his church office, shuts out the world and prepares to learn. Tucked behind his desk, with hundreds of religious books shelved along the walls,...

Lake Superior Court Judge Sheila Moss participates in a discussion during a public forum hosted by the Indiana Supreme Court's Commission on Race and Gender Fairness on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, at Indiana University Northwest.

Community discusses judicial system inequality

May 13, 2019 at 3:40 a.m.

The Indiana Supreme Court's Commission on Race & Gender Fairness hosted the first of five forums statewide Monday in Gary to find potential solutions to the barriers that women and...

Gary pastors pray for growth of congregations

May 13, 2019 at 3:39 a.m.

As a spirited 38-year-old pastor, Willie Joyner remembers Gary churches were flourishing in the early 1990s. Every Sunday, the pews in his church were teeming with parishioners. You could sometimes...

Supreme Court forum Monday in Gary

May 13, 2019 at 3:39 a.m.

The Indiana Supreme Court's Commission on Race & Gender Fairness will hosting a public forum Monday in Gary, the first of five community forums held throughout the state. The forum...

System to increase safety for emergency responders

May 13, 2019 at 3:38 a.m.

It was a typical work day when firefighter Kevin Wright received a call to respond to a car accident on Interstate 65. Wright, a Merrillville firefighter, hopped behind the wheel...

Rail safety officials complain motorists often ignore crossing danger

May 13, 2019 at 3:37 a.m.

At 2:50 a.m., in the still of the autumn morning, Julie Rothenberg, then a 17-year-old senior at Andrean High School, drove with two girlfriends over an unguarded railroad crossing on...

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