Hammond students lend artistic talents to charity

The choir from Kenwood Elementary School performs during the fourth annual Art Lenders exhibition and auction Wednesday in Hammond. The event features the art of students in grades one through five in the School City of Hammond. All proceeds from the event at Morton High School went to art e…

Hammond students lend artistic talents to charity

Harding Elementary School fourth-grader Noel Gonzales is photographed next to his artwork Wednesday during the Art Lenders exhibition and auction at Morton High School.

Hammond students lend artistic talents to charity

Jefferson Elementary School second-grader Aubrey Jenkins looks at art Wednesday during the Art Lenders exhibition and auction in Hammond.

Gas prices are Memorial Day weekend wild card

Traffic is reduced to two lanes on eastbound Interstate 94 for construction on the bridge over Beam Street in Porter. There currently is only one mega-construction project underway this Memorial Day weekend in the region. That is the $600 million Illinois Tollway project to directly connect …

NWI home sales continue winning streak

A home is shown for sale in Munster earlier this month. Northwest Indiana single-family home sales increased 26 percent in April as compared to one year ago, marking the 22nd straight month home sales have increased in the region.

Thornton Job Fair

IDOT representative Ivan Barajas, left, speaks with job seekers Tuesday at the Thornton Township and South Suburban College job fair at the college in South Holland.

Thornton Job Fair

Job seekers wait in lines Tuesday to speak with employers at the Thornton Township and South Suburban College job fair at the college in South Holland.

Thornton Job Fair

Job seekers wait in lines Tuesday to speak with employers at the Thornton Township and South Suburban College job fair at the college in South Holland.

Red Cedars Museum new home for Woody's Barbershop in Cedar Lake

A one-room school house is also part of the display at the Lake of the Red Cedars Museum.

Red Cedars Museum new home for Woody's Barbershop in Cedar Lake

Woody's Barbershop has been moved to Lake of the Red Cedar Museum in Cedar Lake as its latest attraction.

Red Cedars Museum new home for Woody's Barbershop in Cedar Lake

The barbershop is like a little time capsule of early Cedar Lake. It has its original chair and barber tools as well as barber signs and posters advertising town events from long ago.

Lizzie Seymour, Paige Kwasigroch

Lake Central's Lizzie Seymour makes the tag at second against Munster's Paige Kwasigroch in the Mustangs' 4-0 win in the first game of the Highland Sectional.

Munster's Briana Zunica

Munster's Briana Zunica throws to first base for the final out against Lake Central in the Mustangs' 4-0 win in the sectional opener.

Carly Murphy

Munster pitcher Carly Murphy delivers against Lake Central in the Mustangs' 4-0 win in the first game of the Highland Sectional.

Detour through Hobart expected to end by Wednesday

Construction is underway to replace an existing sanitary sewer line under the Norfolk Southern Railroad crossing between Fifth and Fourth streets in Hobart.

Lawyers, businesswomen come to aid of former inmates

Professional clothing items donated for the Lake County Community Transition Court lie on shelves Friday at the Lake County Work Release Center in Crown Point.

Lawyers, businesswomen come to aid of former inmates

Lake County Community Transition Court coordinator Judy Love unloads clothing donations Friday for the court's clients. The court works with convicted felons who have served their sentence and are in the process of being released back into their communities.

Lawyers, businesswomen come to aid of former inmates

Lake County Work Release participant Leon Horn unloads donated professional clothes Friday at the Lake County Work Release Center in Crown Point. The clothing was donated to the Lake County Community Transition Court by Lake County Bar Association and Indiana Federation of Business and Profe…

Lake County honors its fallen officers

Guests and members of the Lake County Sheriff's Department pray during the annual police memorial service Friday at the Lake County Government Complex in Crown Point. Earlier in the week, about 40 county officers traveled to Washington, D.C., to remember Lake County Corrections Officer Britn…