Lake County

A teenage boy was shot and killed when an apparent prank went wrong Sunday night in Crown Point, Indiana.

A judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit the city of Chicago filed against a northwestern Indiana store that alleged it sold hundreds of guns in straw purchases that ended up in the hands of felons or at crime scenes in the city.

Charges have been filed against a Chicago man who is still at large after a battery incident in Northwest Indiana earlier this month. 

A highway in Northwest Indiana is completely blocked after a semi hauling plywood overturned in the westbound lanes Friday morning.  

Three men are facing charges after being pulled over Wednesday morning in northwest Indiana with cocaine, fentanyl and heroin in their vehicle.

More than 40 dogs have been rescued from a suspected puppy mill in northwest Indiana after sheriff's deputies received a tip Wednesday.

The FBI has announced an increased reward in the case of a murdered 13-year-old Hammond girl whose torso was found floating in the Little Calumet River.

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A suspect was arrested in South Holland after leading Indiana police on a high-speed chase Wednesday morning. 

Multiple people were arrested, a baby is now in protective custody and drugs were recovered after the Lake County Sheriff's Office executed search warrants at three Gary homes Tuesday.

A family had been going through a grandfather's belongings when they found a hand grenade.

A man known widely in the Chicago area as the Dreadhead Cowboy was arrested in Hammond on Thursday. 

A BP subsidiary will pay a $40 million penalty and install technology to control releases of benzene and other contaminants at its Whiting oil refinery on the Indiana shoreline of Lake Michigan, Biden administration officials said Wednesday.