Gary police memorial service is Friday

GARY— The Gary Police Department and Ben K. Perry Lodge 61 of the Fraternal Order of Police will hold its annual memorial service to honor its fallen officers at 10 a.m. Friday. The event is open to the public. Relatives of officers killed in the …

Gary prepares to sell 13 rehabbed homes

GARY — The city of Gary on Wednesday received the Board of Public Works and Safety’s approval to get into the real estate business, in a way. The board also approved a program that could give dozens of Gary teens a summer job for a …

Gary Jet Center a finalist for Department of Defense Freedom Award

GARY — The Gary Jet Center is still a contender for the 17th annual Department of Defense Freedom Award, it was announced Tuesday. The center was one of three entities in Indiana, and the only small business, selected as one of 30 finalists for the …

Portage police seek appplicants

PORTAGE — Applications for those interested in becoming a Portage police officer will available at the Police Department beginning Tuesday, May 29. Department spokesman Sgt. Keith Hughes said applicants must be U.S. citizens between the ages of 21 and 36 with a valid driver’s license, …

$18.5 million settlement in ‘Transformers 3’ accident

An $18.5 million settlement has been reached in the case of a movie extra who was left permanently brain-impaired by an accident during the filming in northwest Indiana of “Transformers 3.”

Joplin remembers deadly tornado, 1 year later

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A year after a massive tornado tore through Joplin, reminders of the storm’s fury are plentiful — from the glaring absence of century-old trees in the city’s central neighborhoods to the ghostly shell of St. John’s Regional Medical Center. Residents, hospital …

Defense says Muslim soldier never built bomb

WACO, Texas (AP) — A Muslim soldier was stopped just hours before completing assembly of a bomb that he planned to detonate at a restaurant full of Fort Hood troops, prosecutors said during opening statements Tuesday at his federal trial. After Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo …

Bail set for five in attack at Tinley restaurant; two victims also charged

Authorities charged five Indiana men Monday stemming from a weekend attack in which a group of masked assailants wielding bats and batons stormed a Tinley Park restaurant in broad daylight, beating diners they believed were connected to a white supremacist group.

Two of the people …

Top Senate Dem to GOP: Rich must be taxed more

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat says Republicans will have to accept higher taxes on the rich and drop efforts to reshape Medicare if they want a deal on cutting the debt. In a letter to GOP senators, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is …

2010 census missed more than 1.5M minorities

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2010 census missed more than 1.5 million minorities after struggling to count black Americans, Hispanics, renters and young men, but was mostly accurate. The Census Bureau on Tuesday released an extensive assessment of its high-stakes, once-a-decade headcount of the U.S. population. …

Ryan Crocker, ambassador to Afghanistan, to leave

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ryan Crocker, the unflappable diplomat who became the civilian face of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over two administrations, is stepping down as ambassador to Afghanistan and retiring from the U.S. foreign service after a storied tenure in some of the …

Gregg, Pence draft running mates

INDIANAPOLIS — With the addition of two women to gubernatorial tickets, it’s almost guaranteed that the next duo to run Indiana will be a man and a woman — for the third consecutive time. Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg reached out to his party’s base …

Campers reminded to be careful with firewood

WEST LAFAYETTE (AP) — Officials at Purdue University are urging Indiana campers to be careful with their firewood this summer to help prevent the spread of the emerald ash borer. Entomologist Annemarie Nagle says a state Department of Natural Resources rule requires Indiana firewood to …

4 Dems facing forgery charges told to provide samples

SOUTH BEND (AP) — A former St. Joseph County Democratic chairman and three others have been ordered to provide handwriting samples to a special prosecutor investigating allegations of forged signatures being used on petitions to place Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the state’s 2008 …

Hundreds face tuberculosis tests at Terre Haute school

TERRE HAUTE (AP) — A suspected case of tuberculosis at an Terre Haute middle school has health officials preparing to test up to 1,000 students and school employees for the disease. The parents of Woodrow Wilson Middle School students were notified by phone calls Monday …