Jerry Davich – Page 27

Lital Donner, youth director for Congregation Kol Tikvah, comforts Aria Siccone, 14, a 9th grade student survivor from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Outraged Lake Central parent: ‘My daughter does not feel safe in school’

December 14, 2018 at 9:54 p.m.

Kelly Arndt couldn't believe that other outraged parents didn't attend Tuesday night's Lake Central School Corp.'s school board meeting. "To say I was in complete shock is an understatement. I'm...

Mother loses both sons: ‘I’ve been completely heartbroken and devastated’

December 14, 2018 at 9:41 p.m.

Elizabeth Bathurst still can't bring herself to look inside her youngest son's backpack. She said it's filled with 12 different prescription medications. Adam Bathurst-Del Rio died in a head-on car...

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Are you also caught between two worlds, a dinosaur in the digital age?

June 7, 2019 at 4:09 a.m.

So there I was reading through the stack of my daily newspapers, as I do each morning, when I stupidly stumbled across the blurry line between print and digital communications....

Rosemary Gard's husband, Bob, inside their Crown Point home, which is adorned with several handmade lamps he made through the decades.

‘Destiny’ series author reinvents herself: ‘I’ve lived a notorious life’

December 14, 2018 at 8:43 p.m.

Rosemary Gard has a story for every item in her home, which feels like a museum. "If you ignore the dust I'll give you a tour," she said after I...

In this frame grab from video provided by WPLG-TV, students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., evacuate the school following a shooting on Feb. 14, 2018.

Northwest Indiana teachers take matters into their own hands, create plans in case of active shooter

December 14, 2018 at 8:37 p.m.

On Wednesday night, after watching news accounts of the mass shooting at a Florida high school earlier that day, Carrie Martin-Williams wrote on Facebook what many of us were feeling....

Remembering a friend who had a Teflon-coated outlook on life

May 24, 2018 at 9:57 a.m.

Marie Douglass rushed out to her driveway to greet me. "You don't mind dogs, do you?" she asked. "Well," I replied with hesitation, "I'm not a real dog person." "It's...

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

‘Beyond excited’: Northwest Indiana residents attend Olympic Games in South Korea

December 14, 2018 at 7:54 p.m.

While walking back from a bar late Friday night to watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, Landon Davison noticed a sign along the road between PyeongChang and his...

In this Jan. 31, 1968, file photo, two U.S. military policemen aid a wounded fellow MP during fighting in the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon, Vietnam, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive.

Davich: Vietnam documentary reveals we’re all prisoners of this war

December 14, 2018 at 7:40 p.m.

When I was a young boy growing up in Gary, one of the older kids in Glen Ryan subdivision left our neighborhood to serve in the Vietnam War. It was...

A bill in the Indiana Senate would prohibit a school from providing a student with instruction on human sexuality unless the parent of the student consents to the instruction.

Indiana’s regressive sex-ed bill requires parental consent for lessons on orientation, gender identity

December 14, 2018 at 7:32 p.m.

Years ago, when my fiancee's daughter was in the fifth grade, she came home with a permission slip regarding an upcoming sex education presentation at her school. The permission slip...

Overdue book survives 2 marriages, 5 new houses and 9 presidents. It was returned nearly 50 years later.

December 14, 2018 at 7:08 p.m.

In the spring of 1969, Rick Childress had a lot on his mind after graduating from Calumet High School. One thing on his to-do list was to check out the...

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