LaPorte County residents are invited to a sheriff’s office town hall meeting tonight. It will take place at the American Legion in Union Mills at 7 p.m. and is expected to last about an hour. Continue reading
A LaPorte County Commissioner has been arrested after allegedly leaving the scene of a property damage crash. Continue reading
A bicyclist was killed late Saturday night after being struck by a vehicle in LaPorte County. It happened around 11:40 p.m. on U.S. 20 just east of the Porter/LaPorte County Line, according to the LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office. Continue reading
The cause of a fatal Monday afternoon crash that shut down a LaPorte County highway for nearly two hours remains under investigation. Emergency responders were dispatched at 1:42 p.m. to U.S. 20 west of Johnson Road for a serious injury crash. They soon discovered the driver of a blue Buick passenger vehicle was deceased. Investigators believe the Buick was traveling eastbound on U.S. 20 near Pinetree Drive, suddenly crossed over the center line into the path of an oncoming Able Disposal truck and hit it head-on. Continue reading
Authorities in LaPorte County have released the name of the bicyclist killed in a crash on U.S. 421 in Westville around 9:15 last night. Continue reading
One person is dead following a vehicle versus bicycle crash on U.S. 421 in LaPorte County. It happened around 9:15 last night near the Purdue North Central campus in Westville, according to officials from the LaPorte County Sheriff’s Department. Continue reading
Authorities in LaPorte County safely detonated a homemade pipe bomb, and now they’re looking into who made it. Continue reading
LaPorte County police say they’ve arrested five people who they believe traveled from Fort Wayne to sell illicit drugs. The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office says an investigation over the last few days culminated in the planned arrests in the parking lot of the LaPorte Walmart at around 4:45 Thursday afternoon. Continue reading
Detectives and patrol deputies from the LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office are taking to the streets three weeks after a fatal hit-and-run accident in hopes of solving the crime. Continue reading
Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating the drowning of a Gary man in a LaPorte lake yesterday. Emergency responders were called to Pine Lake at 6:42 p.m. Continue reading
Officials with the LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office say a recent report of a weapon on school property at South Central turned out to be a BB gun. An investigation into the May 14th incident found that a freshman student on the baseball team brought the gun to practice with the intent to take it to a friend’s house afterward. Authorities note it was never displayed and remained in its case in the press box. Continue reading
Family members of the woman killed by a hit-and-run driver in Wanatah on Wednesday have contacted the LaPorte County Sheriff’s Department. Continue reading
Police have identified the woman killed in a suspected hit and run incident near Wanatah. The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office believes Shawn Ellyn Rybicki, 46, was struck and killed Wednesday afternoon on U.S. 421. Continue reading
The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help to locate a driver who struck and killed a woman on U.S. 421 near Wanatah. Officers responded to a report of a woman lying in a ditch on the east side of the highway just north of U.S. 30 around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. She was dead, after apparently being hit by a vehicle. Continue reading
The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office is reporting its first successful use of the opioid antidote Narcan Saturday. Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a gas station at State Road 39 and U.S. 20 shortly after noon, after getting a report of a person not breathing. Continue reading
Police are investigating after a resident of a LaPorte County home reported waking up to find an intruder in the house, Friday. According to the LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched shorty after noon to investigate an attempted burglary at a home in the 7000 block of West U.S. 30, near Wanatah. Continue reading
Investigators from the state fire marshal’s office and LaPorte County Sheriff’s Department are still looking into the cause of yesterday’s fatal mobile home fire. The Kingsford-Union and Kingsbury Fire Departments were initially dispatched to a medical alarm call at 9:19 a.m. at a home just outside of Kingsford Heights. Continue reading
High winds made travel difficult for truckers yesterday, with multiple rollover accidents reported in the local area. U.S. 421 was closed for hours between State Roads 8 and 10 after an overturned semi was leaking diesel fuel, according to the Indiana Department of Transportation. Continue reading
The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office reminds residents to be extra careful and perhaps avoid being on the ice on many of the county’s inland lakes. They say the mild winter combined with a late freeze have made for unusual conditions. Deputy John Burger with the LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office Dive/Rescue Team says they’ve found numerous places where ice is several inches thick with very thin ice only a few yards away. Continue reading
Speed and wet pavement contributed to a fatal crash in LaPorte County. It happened late Thursday morning on State Road 2 just west of State Road 39 in front of the LaPorte County Fairgrounds. Continue reading
