HEALTH BRIEFS: Hospital to offer babysitting classes

MICHIGAN CITY | Franciscan St. Anthony Health hospital in Michigan City will offer its next Safe Sitter babysitting course from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 27.

Colts learn some key lessons from tough Luck start

INDIANAPOLIS | Colts coach Chuck Pagano spent Sunday night and Monday morning sifting through the wreckage of a season-opening blowout.

JOHN DOHERTY: Urlacher's status on 'kneed' to know basis

Perhaps you don't recall the play. It was late in the January season finale against the Vikings when Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher and safety Major Wright arrived at the same spot in the end zone at the same time.

Dyer police find 2 dead inside home

A mail carrier walks past a Dyer home where two people were found dead Monday.

Dyer police find 2 dead inside home

Dyer police investigate two deaths Monday at a home in the 2500 block of Sycamore Drive. One of the two people, Rhonda Neher, 45, died as a result of a apparent homicide, Lake County cororner's officials said.

Dyer police find 2 dead inside home

Neighbors watch as Dyer police investigate two deaths Monday at a home in the 2500 block of Sycamore Drive.

Dyer police find 2 dead inside home

Lake County Sheriff's Department SUVs are parked outside a Dyer home where two people were found dead Monday.

Dyer police find 2 dead inside home

Dyer police officers stand outside a home in the 2500 block of Sycamore Drive where a man and woman were found dead Monday.

On the move: Franciscan St. Margaret Health installs new MRI

Thomas Bliujus unloads a new Siemens MRI machine at Franciscan St. Margaret Health in Hammond.

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A 5-ton Siemens MRI machine is lowered Monday through the roof into the imaging department of Franciscan St. Margaret Health in Hammond.

On the move: Franciscan St. Margaret Health installs new MRI

Hospital employees watch Monday as a new Siemens MRI machine is lowered by crane into the imaging department of Franciscan St. Margaret Health in Hammond. A portion of the roof was removed to lower the machine into the hospital.

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A new Siemens MRI machine is lowered Monday through the roof into the imaging department of Franciscan St. Margaret Health in Hammond.

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A Siemens MRI machine is lowered with a crane through the roof Monday at Franciscan St. Margaret Health in Hammond. Bobby Masiers, right, of Hegele Logistic, guides the machine through the opening.

JOHN DOHERTY: Why pay the cost of the MRI?

Do you know what MRI stands for? Magnetic Resonance Imaging, you say?

La Porte Hospital accredited in MRI administration

LA PORTE | Indiana University Health La Porte Hospital recently was awarded the Gold Seal of Accreditation in magnetic resonance imaging after a review conducted by the American College of Radiology, an organization dedicated to the premium practice of medical imaging.