Gary

Public schools in Gary, Indiana, will be closed Friday as freezing weather continues to grip the Chicago area.

The charges stem from a shooting that occurred about midnight Jan. 25 near the corner of 21st Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive in Gary.

On Nov 1., 2019, Wanya Burnside was riding in an SUV with family in the 1300 block of Noble Street when someone opened fire, striking him in the head, according to Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr.

It’s unknown how or when the grenade got into the river, police said.

State officials have put the Gary Community School Corp. on notice for violating Indiana law by offering enrollment incentives last fall.

The northwest Indiana city of Gary reported 58 homicides in 2019, which is the highest since 2007 when there were 71, officials said.

Officers were assisting Merrillville authorities with an armed suspect who had barricaded himself in the Gary neighborhood of 2500 block of Waverly Drive, Gary police said.

Police fatally shot a suspect Monday after he opened fire and injured two members of a SWAT team who stormed a Gary, Indiana, apartment complex seeking to apprehend him, authorities said.

Jackie and Tito Jackson dropped by Gary's West Side Leadership Academy on Wednesday for a tour of its performing arts classrooms and to see students demonstrate their talents in orchestra, dance, voice, recording techniques and theatrics.

About 10:20 p.m. Sunday, a state trooper saw a Jeep speeding at 90 mph down an expressway with red and blue emergency lights flashing, Indiana State Police said.

Police say they found marijuana and a gun after chasing a man in Northwest Indiana.

A volley of gunfire entered a housing complex about 1:10 a.m. and struck 4-year-old Tory’on Dukes and grazed the face of his 27-year-old mother in the 4300 block of West 23rd Place in Gary, according to police.

Former Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, who became one of the first black mayors of a big U.S. city when he was elected in 1967, has died. He was 86.

Takaylah Tribitt, 14, was found dead Sept. 16 in an alley near 20th Avenue and Pennsylvania Street, the Lake County sheriff’s office said Sunday.

An armed man was shot by a police officer Sunday evening in northwest Indiana, according to police.

The president of the Gary Common Council has been charged with kidnapping a teenager he suspected of stealing his car in September in northwest Indiana.

Officials discovered a body while looking for a missing person Thursday in Gary, Indiana, according to police.

A man is charged with shooting three people to death last week in northwest Indiana, then burning the crime scene.

Northern Indiana Public Service Co.'s website shows that about 49,000 of the utility's customers were out of power just before noon Monday.

A Gary police officer shot an armed suspect Monday morning while responding to a call in northwest Indiana.