Crown Point Community School Corporation gets top honors again

Crown Point Community School Corporation gets top honors again

CROWN POINT | The Crown Point High School Band, Choir and Orchestra earn the prestigious Top Ten in the state, 2012-13 All-Music Award, from the Indiana State School Music Association.

Moms Together Block Party around the corner

CROWN POINT | The Lake County Purdue Cooperative Extension Service is hosting the Moms Together Block Party.

Items being collected for Oklahoma tornado victims

VALPARAISO | Food, clothing and personal items are being collected in Porter County to be sent to victims of Monday's tornado in Moore, Okla.

Marketing session set at INnovation Center

HAMMOND | The Hammond INnovation Center and Northwest Indiana SBDC present their next Lunch and Learn Workshop, "Marketing the Message of 'What’s In It for Me'"

Run ends for early ride at S. Ind.'s Holiday World

SANTA CLAUS, Ind. | The ride is over for a miniature train, the last of the original attractions at the Holiday World amusement park that opened in southern Indiana in 1946.

Nigeria military says it rescued hostages in north

Nigeria's military says it has rescued women and children taken hostage by Islamic extremists after an attack on a police barracks.

Broadwell expresses remorse for Petraeus affair

The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship.

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

Singer Kylie Minogue arrives at amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, during the 66th international film festival, in Cap d'Antibes, southern France, Thursday, May 23, 2013. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

File - In this May 20, 2013 file photo, actress Milla Jovovich arrives for the screening of Blood Ties at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. Swarovski are providing jewelry to stars such as Jovovich and are not concerned despite the high profile theft during th…

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

Actor Alec Baldwin, right, and his wife Hilaria Thomas pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Seduced and Abandoned at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

This film image released by HBO shows Michael Douglas, right, as Liberace, and Matt Damon, as Scott Thorson in a scene from "Behind the Candelabra," premiering Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO. (AP Photo/HBO, Claudette Barius)

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Canada: Qatar gives up bid to relocate UN agency

Canada's foreign minister said Friday that Qatar has abandoned its bid relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Montreal to the tiny emirate, ending a bitter fight between the two nations.

'Unusual condition' seen before Conn. derailment

Federal officials investigating last week's commuter train derailment in Connecticut say the engineer described an "unusual condition" on the track before the train derailed.

NASCAR panel upholds RCR penalties

A NASCAR appeals panel has upheld the penalties for two Richard Childress Racing Nationwide crew members who were also criminally charged for fighting with Nelson Piquet Jr. at Richmond last month.

Britain braces for possible copycat attacks

A woman blows a kiss as she lays a floral tribute in memory of the victim outside the Royal Artillery Barracks near the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, southeast London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. A member of armed forces was attacked and killed by two men on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Britain braces for possible copycat attacks

In this undated image released Thursday May 23, 2013, by the British Ministry of Defence, showing Lee Rigby known as ‘Riggers’ to his friends, who is identified by the MOD as the serving member of the armed forces who was attacked and killed by two men in the Woolwich area of London on Wedne…

Britain braces for possible copycat attacks

Britain is bracing for clashes with right-wing extremists and possible copycat terror attacks by Islamic extremists after the brutal slaying of a young soldier, whose grieving family spoke Friday of their loss.

Aid group official says 4 wounded in Afghan attack

Afghan police aim their weapons after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in little…

Aid group official says 4 wounded in Afghan attack

Afghan police take cover following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in little ov…

Aid group official says 4 wounded in Afghan attack

Afghan police take cover following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in little ov…

Aid group official says 4 wounded in Afghan attack

Afghan police take cover following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in little ov…

Aid group official says 4 wounded in Afghan attack

An Afghan policeman takes cover following a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in li…

Aid group official says 4 wounded in Afghan attack

A spokesman for an international aid organization says that four of its staff were injured in an attack on a guest house it uses in the Afghan capital.