EDITORIAL: Gambling on host communities' future

Indiana lawmakers are up to their elbows in surgery on casino taxes. They must remember as they do so that the reason for allowing casinos in Indiana in the first place was to benefit the host communities.

20 UNDER 40: Tiffany Simpson

Growing up, Tiffany Simpson was always the person people came to for advice. Think Lucy and her psychologist booth from "Charlie Brown.” The licensed psychologist and clinical addictions counselor says she “has been doing this since I was 7.”

Hobart chamber announces 2011 award winners

HOBART | The Hobart Chamber of Commerce has announced its 2011 business award winners who will be honored at a Jan. 19 banquet.

17 graduate from police academy in Hobart

HOBART | Shayna Dujmovich knew her graduation Friday from the police academy would be an emotional day. "I asked my husband to bring me Kleenex," Dujmovich said, tears brimming in her eyes following the graduation ceremony.

Northwest Indiana Law Enforcement Academy set to graduate 17 cadets

HOBART | Dale Marshall, 34, is not a wet-behind-the-ears police rookie. Marshall had worked nearly a year for the Kouts Police Department prior to starting his 15 weeks of training at the Northwest Indiana Law Enforcement Academy.

STOPS training for Hobart cadets a matter of life and death

HOBART| The simple act of pulling over a driver to issue a traffic citation can turn deadly, cadet Christopher Prevatte has learned.

Getting a clue

CROWN POINT| Working a crime scene involves hard work.

NWI Law Enforcement Academy cadets prepare for state firearms exam today

HAMMOND | Cadet Christopher Prevatte listened to the advice his firearms instructor gave as if his life depended on it.

Committee approves fee for police academies

INDIANAPOLIS | A plan to increase vehicle fees to support law enforcement academies narrowly was approved by a House committee Wednesday.

Police academies could get new funding source

INDIANAPOLIS | Northwest Indiana law enforcement and legislators came out in force Wednesday at the Statehouse to call for a new funding source for the state's police academies, including the Hobart facility.

Making the cut at NWI Law Enforcement Academy

HOBART| It was a trying first day of school for police hopefuls Samantha Jordan and Shayna Dujmovich.

Law enforcement group changes name to reflect growth

In 1965, police chiefs from St. John, Lowell, Griffith, Munster, Highland, Crown Point and the Lake County Sheriff's Department decided to meet monthly to discuss emerging trends and crime in their respective communities. Out of that group came major advances in cooperation, including a loca…