Senate backs 'Blue Alert' for endangered cops

INDIANAPOLIS | Hoosiers may soon get alerts on their televisions, radios, mobile phones and other devices if a police officer is killed, injured or missing in the line of duty and the perpetrator is on the lam.

LaPorte County Jail floor reopened

LAPORTE | A partial shutdown of the LaPorte County Jail is over now that a heated squabble about money has been settled.

Wife of former sheriff to return pension payments

The wife of the former LaPorte County sheriff will no longer collect a pension and return the full amount collected of more than $36,000.

LaPorte sheriff blames funding dispute for jail disruption

LAPORTE| LaPorte County Sheriff Mike Mollenhauer is pointing blame at the county council for a disruption among inmates at the jail that resulted in some offenders being shocked with an electric stun gun.

SUV driver ticketed in two-fatality motorcycle crash

LAPORTE | A Rolling Prairie woman received two traffic citations following the two-fatality collision with a motorcycle that killed a LaPorte couple Wednesday afternoon on Ind. 2

Ind. Senate approves changes to state's public intox law

INDIANAPOLIS | Drunken Hoosiers could not be arrested for public intoxication unless they were endangering their life, another person's life or breaching the peace under legislation approved 30-20 on Monday by the Indiana Senate.

LaPorte officer convicted of reckless driving

LAPORTE | A LaPorte County Sheriff's officer arrested on allegations of drunk driving has been convicted of reckless driving.

Michigan City police conduct sweep for drug offenders

MICHIGAN CITY | Police and federal officials arrested 21 people before sunrise Tuesday morning, officials said.

Resident honored for role in catching alleged robber

LAPORTE | The day began like any other for James Warren, until he saw one of his favorite stops, the Family Express, getting robbed at gunpoint.

Controversial court ruling produces more questions than answers

INDIANAPOLIS | In his 36 years of working in law enforcement, former LaPorte County Sheriff Jim Arnold doesn't believe he ever knowingly entered a home illegally.

Inmate found dead in LaPorte County Jail; ID not released

LAPORTE | LaPorte County Sheriff Michael Mollenhauer said Saturday his office and the county coroner are investigating the death of an inmate at LaPorte County Jail.