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President-elect Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos shake hands at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016.

Schools taking wait-and-see attitude toward DeVos, McCormick

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

Local education leaders are adopting a wait-and-see attitude in the wake of the election of Donald Trump as president and Republican Jennifer McCormick as the Indiana state superintendent of public...

Munster High School students who receive the Outstanding Citizenship medal will be permitted to wear it on graduation day.

DOC 200 helps students learn good citizenship

May 13, 2019 at 3:14 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...

Indiana Representative Linda Lawson explains what the Emma Threat house will look like once completed.

Emma’s House aims to help homeless women recently in jail

May 13, 2019 at 3:12 a.m.

Elected officials and a dozen others toured Emma's House, a planned homeless shelter for single women, located at 616 Maryland in Gary on Monday. They pledged their support to help...

Ken Schoon has won the 2016 Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award for distinguished scholarship.

Award winner not your traditional historian

May 13, 2019 at 3:10 a.m.

Ken Schoon opens the door to his small office on the third floor of the Library Conference Center at Indiana University Northwest and says he's "absolutely flabbergasted" to have won...

Your leftovers pie can go in many directions, depending on what you have from the Thanksgiving table.

Experts suggest conversation ground rules at Thanksgiving

May 13, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

Iconic Thanksgiving scenes like those featured on the Saturday Evening Post, have for decades helped craft a nearly mythical image of warm and loving family members enjoying the trimmings of...

Kindergarten teacher Becky Rycerz works with a group of students in her class.

Kindergarten class growth presents challenges

May 13, 2019 at 3:09 a.m.

A table of kindergartners listen almost patiently as one of the students reads aloud from his book, "I...like...to...ride..my...bike..." "Ellie, it's your turn. Do you want to read the whole thing...

Members of the Lake Central Hockey Club sort food which has been donated to Campagna Academy.

Athletes helping others off the field of play

May 13, 2019 at 3:09 a.m.

A tangle of lanky teen-age boys in sweatshirts and baseball hats are crowding under the back hatch of a minivan. They are laughing and joking around, but they are here...

Scot MacDonald, business director of the 123-year-old Memorial Opera House in Valparaiso. The theater was built as a war memorial to honor local soldiers who fought for the Grand Army of the Republic during the Civil War.

Opera House closes in on 125th anniversary

May 13, 2019 at 3:08 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...

Cpl. Thomas Cisar, shown in undated family photo, lived in Highland and graduated from Bishop Noll Institute in before he was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War. He was one of six Highland men who lost their lives there.

Highland soldiers killed in Vietnam remembered

May 13, 2019 at 3:06 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...

In January 1918, as the U.S. was embroiled in World War I and doing whatever it could to conserve coal and food, Northwest Indiana was pounded by a blizzard. This photo shows snow covering the railroad tracks in East Chicago.

Ben Franklin among first to pitch daylight saving time

May 13, 2019 at 3:04 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...

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