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Bo Kemp, director of the Economic Development Corp. of Gary.

University Park East project continues blueprint

May 13, 2019 at 3:27 a.m.

Gary and its partners will continue plans for University Park East, following the completion of the Choice Neighborhood $500,000 two-year planning grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...

Three Gary ideas finalists in Knight Cities Challenge

May 13, 2019 at 3:27 a.m.

Three finalists from Gary are among the 144 applicants to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight Cities Challenge to offer "your best idea to make cities more...

In this Sept. 9, 2015, file photo, Planned Parenthood supporters rally for women's access to reproductive health care on "National Pink Out Day'' at Los Angeles City Hall.

New leadership renews target on Planned Parenthood funding

May 13, 2019 at 3:26 a.m.

With a new administration and Republican control in the House of Representatives and the Senate, promises to defund Planned Parenthood because of concerns over abortion are closer to a reality,...

Vickie Rainwater, program coordinator, speaks to a group of women about safety of sleeping babies at Mental Health of America headquarters at 5311 Hohman Ave in Hammond.

Improving infant mortality rate is group’s goal

May 13, 2019 at 3:26 a.m.

Having a weekly visitor was a little awkward at first for Ninti Smith El. Smith El, mother of a 4-month-old and a 4-year-old, has been receiving visits from Shirley Larios,...

Valeria Roach of Portage was a little girl in Burt, N.D., when Santa brought her a tea set.

War changed Christmas in 1941

May 13, 2019 at 3:20 a.m.

Clouds of war were gathering as the country celebrated Thanksgiving in 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said at a Founder's Day dinner in Warm Springs, Ga., that it was possible...

Grant earmarked to help preserve Cedar Lake history

May 13, 2019 at 3:23 a.m.

A state grant is expected to help the Cedar Lake Historical Association complete a structural evaluation on the Lake of the Red Cedars Museum. The $4,500 grant from the Indiana...

Kimberly Sausman, nurse and lactation consultant for Methodist Hospital Northlake in Gary, shows the refrigerator where donated breast milk is stored prior to shipment to The Milk Bank in Indianapolis.

Donations of breast milk save infants

May 13, 2019 at 3:19 a.m.

Six insulated shipping boxes filled with 7,993 ounces of breast milk donated by local mothers to feed premature babies are stacked on a dolly at Fagen Pharmacy, 3401 Calumet Ave.,...

Lake family’s roots stretch back to beginning of county

May 13, 2019 at 3:16 a.m.

Editor's note: On Dec. 11, 1816, Indiana became the 19th state in the Union. On Jan. 28, 1836, Porter County was created. A year later, on Jan. 18, Lake County...

A bus shelter like this one will soon be decorated with murals painted by select Gary artists.

Art becomes functional along Gary bus route

May 13, 2019 at 3:16 a.m.

Jesse Johnson is incorporating a scene from his neighborhood and the bus he takes to Indiana University Northwest into the panels he's creating for new bus shelters along the route...

Indiana University Northwest Professor James Lane talks about the importance of the visual history of Pearl Harbor at the Calumet Regional Archives.

Horror of Pearl Harbor attack captured visually for future generations

May 13, 2019 at 3:15 a.m.

As the eyewitnesses to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor become fewer and fewer every year, they leave their stories, their histories, to technology for future generations. Technology...

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