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79-year-old Crown Point man attempts to walk to Indianapolis to protest distracted driving

October 13, 2018 at 7:55 p.m.

John Zaboyan was drenched by rain Wednesday morning as he walked alone along Route 231 in south Lake County. “I love the experience so far, except it is coming down...

Merrillville surgeon travels the world, helping children with physical abnormalities: ‘We just can’t turn them away’

December 12, 2018 at 7:18 a.m.

The woman’s 7-year-old son was born without eyes in their remote village of Guatemala. Her last desperate hope for her sightless boy would come from strangers visiting from America. Dr....

Where should the line be drawn regarding video recording police officers? A recent confrontation involving Gary police has columnist Jerry Davich asking that question.

‘Do NOT touch my camera’: Gary arrest prompts columnist to ask, where is the line regarding video of on-duty cops?

December 12, 2018 at 5:07 a.m.

On the evening of Sept. 1, 36-year-old Edward Strauss recorded a video on his smartphone of Gary police officers conducting an investigation of a complaint in that city. “We got...

Lenore Gregory, of Westville, on the left, and Daneen Hilliker, of South Bend, playfully talk to each other with old-fashioned cans, as they do on a regular basis with their real phones.

Even in the age of texts and social media messaging, ‘nothing can replace a phone call’

December 12, 2018 at 4:26 a.m.

When I was a kid, my grandmother would talk for hours, literally, on her rotary phone to her sister while smoking endless Virginia Slims and drinking bottomless cups of Folgers....

Dr. Paul Sommer, a podiatrist with an office in DeMotte, was a potential victim of a phone scam while practicing here at his Valparaiso office.

Phone scam making house calls to doctors: ‘I was fooled at first,’ one admits

December 12, 2018 at 4:09 a.m.

A few hours after receiving a phone call from the person he thought was the Jasper County Sheriff regarding a contempt of court citation, Dr. Paul Sommer was still visibly...

An addict prepares heroin, placing a fentanyl test strip into the mixing container to check for contamination, in New York in August 2018.

‘I don’t know why he got into drugs’: As Hobart family stages intervention, mom discusses son’s struggle with addiction

December 12, 2018 at 3:58 a.m.

Today’s column is the first in a series on a Hobart man in his 20s who is addicted to heroin and opiates, and who recently entered a treatment facility after...

Jim Berman greets guests in the dining room of his Valparaiso Inn Bed & Breakfast.

After 6 years and almost $400K, dilapidated mansion is reborn as Valparaiso Inn Bed & Breakfast

December 12, 2018 at 7:47 a.m.

Soon after Liz Bryant and Jim Berman fell in love 30 years ago, they fell in love with the romantic notion of quaint bed and breakfasts during weekend getaways. When...

Protestors rally against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in Madison Square Park, October 1, 2018 in New York City.

Kavanaugh investigation dredges up distant feelings of shame, pain, regret from sexual assault victims

December 12, 2018 at 2:47 a.m.

Immediately after U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh underwent intense questioning for his alleged sexual assault decades ago, I heard from a handful of Northwest Indiana women who claimed that...

Brian Vukadinovich is shown in his Wheatfield home in 2016, the year he represented himself in a civil lawsuit in federal court.

Northwest Indiana man’s new book details his history with ‘corrupt police, corrupt judges, unsavory lawyers’ and more

December 12, 2018 at 5:54 p.m.

Brian Vukadinovich is convinced that all of us should be “highly suspicious” of the U.S. justice system, its attorneys, and a vast number of police officers. He has written a...

‘She passed away as I held her hand:’ Daughter begins new normal after mother’s death

December 12, 2018 at 5:52 p.m.

This past spring, Rosemarie Murphy-Gordon felt compelled to share with me a photo very close to her heart. Since then, that photo has been close to my heart, too. It...

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