Former S'ville financial adviser must repay $1.12M for fraud

HAMMOND | A former Schererville financial adviser must repay $1.12 million and serve four years on probation for defrauding an elderly client out of more than $800,000.

Chesterton man gets two years in prison for identity theft

HAMMOND | A 38-year-old Chesterton man was given two years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to felony aggravated identity theft.

Mother, boyfriend plead not guilty in child porn case

HAMMOND | Two Gary residents charged with selling and buying a child to create pornography pleaded not guilty during their arraignments in federal court Monday.

Federal court agrees to delay trial of EC's Montalvo

HAMMOND | The former director of the East Chicago Public Library won’t go on trial until June 10.

Former lawyer may face prison for perjury

CHICAGO | Former Merrillville attorney Frederick Cuppy faces sentencing next month on a federal charge of perjury in a scheme to help hide the wealth of a corrupt former hospital executive in an offshore trust.

Jack Schaap sentencing memorandum

18-page memorandum ex-Pastor Jack Schaap filed in federal court in Hammond in anticipation of his Jan. 15 sentencing.

Cal City man charged in Chicago bank robbery

A 29-year-old Calumet City man is in the Metropolitan Correction Center charged with robbing a Fifth Third bank at 3957 W. 26th St. in Chicago, according to the FBI.

Federal courts and Hammond Reads host Time Out for Reading event

HAMMOND | The U.S. District Court and the literacy organization Hammond Reads will host a reading, education and patriotism event Friday morning.

Hammond Baptist hopes former minister's plea is amen to sex scandal

HAMMOND | The First Baptist Church of Hammond and its former minister Jack Schaap both seek closure to the sex scandal that has caused so much grief for believers.

'Nose Doc' makes second run at pleading guilty

HAMMOND | Mark Weinberger, Merrillville's notorious "Nose Doc," took another shot at pleading guilty to federal health care fraud charges Friday — more than a year after a judge rejected a previous plea attempt.

University Park man sentenced in region drug case

HAMMOND | An Illinois man was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison Thursday after pleading guilty to dealing heroin.

Valpo man who had worked with disabled children sentenced in child porn case

HAMMOND | A Valparaiso man who formerly worked with developmentally disabled children was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison for downloading and sharing child pornography.

Federal judge orders fugitive in 1999 murder held without bail

PITTSBURGH | A federal magistrate has found probable cause to keep a man wanted in a 1999 Whiting slaying in custody on charges that he fired on a SWAT team that came to arrest him in western Pennsylvania earlier this week.