Though details are scarce and officials say they haven’t received word of any formal plans, Merrillville leaders have recently come out in opposition to reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement could use an area warehouse as a processing facility.
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The commission is taking steps to bolster the region’s tourism market by focusing on strategies and solutions to market four Indiana counties as the perfect place for professional sports teams.
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The dispute over judicial elections versus merit selection in Indiana’s most populous — and diverse — counties isn’t new, but it is ongoing. Right now, the debate seems to be centered on Lake County.
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Lake Circuit Court Judge Marissa McDermott recently discovered a pair of guns tied to a famous murder in The Region more than 50 years ago.
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The town council will meet Tuesday evening to rescind a resolution it passed earlier this year opposing ICE’s reported plan to buy property within city limits for use as a detention or processing facility.
The circuit court’s opinion comes nearly two years after arguments were heard in the case.
Attorney General Todd Rokita said federal authorities had alerted his office of multiple instances over the last four months in which Merrillville officials contacted potential sellers to discourage them from doing business with ICE.
Prosecutors say James Gerodemos and Dean Gialamas, owners of Paragon Restaurant and Gino’s Steakhouse in Lake County, spearheaded an illegal sportsbetting business from about January 2021 through this month.
Clyde & Co announced the expansion to Indiana on March 17, marking the firm’s 21st office in North America. The firm also has a presence in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe.
Several Hobart city residents have sued the city’s plan commission and city council over the rezoning of residential areas to accommodate a new proposed Amazon data center.
A hearing in the Lake County case will be Nov. 5 at 9 a..m. in the Supreme Court Courtroom.
Gov. Mike Braun has appointed Daniel Burke to serve as Lake Superior Court Judge, with the new judge officially starting Monday on the bench.
Each of the lawsuits accuses Crown Cremation Service LLC and Heights Crematory Inc. of allowing the bodies of loved ones to be stored improperly in trailers on Heights Crematory’s property.
The lawsuit alleges that the husband’s body wasn’t cremated until 19 days after his death and was one of at least 100 corpses that ended up being improperly stored in trailers in Chicago.
Lake County officials are pointing to new data showing that homeowners have taken on an unfair share of property taxes in at least nine counties.
While a majority of the Indiana Supreme Court justices agreed with the punishment, two said they believed Lake Superior Court Judge Calvin Hawkins should be removed from office.
The court, created in 2014, will serve as a national mentor to leaders working to create veteran treatment courts in their jurisdictions.
The filing challenges a Lake Superior Court judge’s decision last year not to dismiss the lawsuit despite a new state law that retroactively stripped Gary and all Indiana municipalities of their authority to sue the gun industry.
The Lake County Judicial Nominating Commission has announced five finalists to fill the vacancy created by the appointment of Judge Stephen Scheele to the Indiana Court of Appeals.
The Lake County Judicial Nominating Commission will be interviewing five applicants next week to fill a vacancy in the county’s trial court civil division.
The Lake County Judicial Nominating Commission is accepting applications for a new superior court judge in Lake County.
Stephen “Sam” Scheele said he is honored to be appointed two separate times to judgeships by Gov. Eric Holcomb, first to Lake Superior Court and now to the Indiana Court of Appeals.
The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications charged Lake Superior Court Judge Calvin Hawkins Monday with three counts of misconduct.
A Valparaiso couple was awarded $25.8 million in damages by a Lake County jury after a medical center failed to transfer test results that contained information about the husband’s cancer diagnosis.