Bob Kasarda

PORTAGE — A 58-year old intoxicated Hobart man is accused of telling a local police officer, "you should get backup officers," before he resisted arrest, resulting in the officer's hand

GARY — A driver who had stepped out of his Amazon semi-trailer truck while parked along eastbound Interstate 94 at Burr Street early Tuesday triggered a crash that ejected another

PORTAGE — A 55-year-old man faces a public indecency charge after allegedly pulling his pants down and fondling himself in front of a woman in a residential area with children nearby, according to Portage police.

A 6-year-old is dead following a collision Tuesday afternoon with a school bus in nearby Frankfort, Illinois, police say.

Jasper County police say they have tracked down the source of a soybean oil leak Saturday that created hazardous conditions in the area of U.S. 231 and County Road 300

A local judge Wednesday rejected a request to dismiss a criminal case against a Hammond man accused of attempting to kill a Porter County police officer nearly 32 years ago.

CHICAGO — Police have recovered the body of a 26-year-old woman who went missing early Tuesday when the vehicle she was travelling in plunged into the Little Calumet River on the city's south side.

LAKE STATION — Police say a license plate surveillance system was among the tools used to identify two men believed responsible for a January armed

MICHIGAN CITY — Local firefighters say divers found no occupants inside a vehicle that had sunk in Trail Creek.

Merrillville police are seeking the public's help in locating a 30-year-old woman last seen Friday at the United Motel in Lansing, Illinois.