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  • Investigators say they hope video footage will reveal more information about the circumstances surrounding the death of a northeastern Indiana man in a wheelchair struck by a train at a railroad crossing
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  • The trial of an Illinois man accused of taking a 14-year-old Hammond girl across state lines for sex started Monday with testimony from a Chicago police officer about how the defendant admitted to knowing the girl's age when he slept with her.
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  • In less than two weeks, Gary, Indiana, hosts its first marathon in the city's history.
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  • The Lake County, Indiana, sheriff says his office made three major busts last week.
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  • An argument outside the Blue Room early Monday led to gunfire, leaving a Gary man dead and his alleged killer in custody.
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  • Interest in Indiana's three-year-old school voucher program is so high that the state could soon lead the nation in voucher use.
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  • More than 1,000 operators of unlicensed Indiana day cares could face closer scrutiny or lose federal money under proposals lawmakers are considering.
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  • Authorities say two southern Indiana men whose ultralight plane crashed into a treetop and became lodged in limbs 60 feet above the ground spent four hours trapped in the crippled aircraft before rescuers lowered them to safety.
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  • Northern Indiana police say a 30-year-old woman died at the Porter County Jail shortly after she was taken into custody.
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  • An Indiana State Police officer has been placed on unpaid leave following his arrest in Illinois on charges alleging that he had sex with a 14-year-old girl.
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  • Some northwestern Indiana residents are questioning a state agency's actions in moving disabled people from nearly two dozen recently shuttered group homes.
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  •   Robert Lewis III was taken into custody on Tuesday.
  • Lake Superior Court jurors convicted a Gary, Ind., man of felony murder and other charges in the beating death of a Griffith woman who befriended a stranger by giving him a ride home.
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  • Authorities say the remains of skinned, decomposed bear have been found in a southern Indiana ditch.
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  • An Indiana dog who became an Internet sensation after crashing a half marathon has won a medal - and an appointment with a veterinarian to nip his wandering ways in the bud.
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  • The Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission has scheduled four public hearings on the proposed 47-mile Illiana Expressway that would link Interstate 65 in northwestern Indiana with I-55 in south suburban Chicago.
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  • A Purdue University spokeswoman says school President Mitch Daniels was paid for a speech at a conservative Minnesota think tank's fundraiser that some believe broke his pledge to avoid partisan politics.
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  • An auto parts maker is planning to move production from two Michigan factories to a new facility just across the state line in northeastern Indiana.
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  • A professor from Purdue University-Calumet in Hammond, Ind. served on the team that discovered the sub-atomic particle.
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  • The Indiana Gaming Commission says casino revenues dropped nearly 7 percent in September.
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  • Indiana will spend millions of dollars over the next two years to pay for Advanced Placement tests for high school students even though less than half of those who take the exams pass.
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  • A former Indiana boy who overcame the odds to survive a rare congenital defect in which he was born with his heart outside his chest has died at age 13.
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  • State Police have arrested an Indianapolis man in connection with an August motorcycle crash that killed two people along Interstate 74.
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  • The family of Jake West will take to the field during halftime of the Colts game Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks at Lucas Oil Stadium.
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  • state of Indiana has sued to freeze the assets of the estate of a Kokomo investment adviser so it can provide possible restitution to victims who may include former National Football League players.
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  • The partial federal government shutdown has postponed the public opening of a 1,000-acre southwestern Indiana nature preserve that's home to river otters, bobcats and rare bird species.
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  • Authorities say a man has been shot in the head outside a motel on the northwest side of Indianapolis.
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  • The Land O'Frost lunch meat company is starting construction on a new headquarters building in northwestern Indiana.
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  • A former beauty queen is urging students at her old high school to take a stand against bullying so teens don't have to endure what she did.
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  • A puppy that was near death when it was rescued from a Muncie trash container in February is thriving in its new home with the man who saved it.
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  • It happened last Friday at the Mobile Spot in the 1700-block of Indianapolis Boulevard.
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  • Jake West, a 17-year-old LaPorte High School student, collapsed during football practice and later died of an enlarged heart.
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  • A school bus crash in Indianapolis has sent nine elementary school students to a hospital with minor injuries.
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  • Nestle USA says it will spend $72 million to add a new production line to the central Indiana plant.
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  • Commuters on the South Shore train line should expect delays after an incident near Michigan City, Ind.
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  • The Indiana State Police are investigating sex assault accusations against a Lake County sheriff's officer.
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  • A 10-month-old girl who was injured after a lightning strike sparked a fire in Gary, Ind., remains hospitalized at Comer Children's Hospital in Chicago.
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  • The Amtrak Hoosier State Line to Chicago could be forced to shut down without state funding.
  • The Amtrak Hoosier State Line to Chicago could be forced to shut down without state funding.
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  • Jackie Allen, 42 and Angelo Santucci, 28, were killed by separate lightning strikes in Gary, Ind.
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  • Two men were killed and a baby was injured by separate lightning strikes in Gary, Ind.
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  • Gary homes demolished as way to fight crime
  • Gary homes are being demolished in a new effort to stop the violence in northwest Indiana.
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  • Toddler shot to death inside Ind. mobile home
  • Zachariah L. Grisham, 24, is charged with neglect and reckless homicide in the shooting death of 3-year-old Lance Wilson at Terrace Acres Mobile Home Park in Michigan City, Ind.
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  • Some political figures in Indiana say they have become victims of an international hacking scam.
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  • A 15-year old is struck by a freight train and killed when he and another teenager were attempting to cross the tracks in northwest Indiana at the time.
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  • Investigators are looking at a large propane storage tank as the possible source of a deadly house explosion in rural northwestern Indiana.
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  • Ind. corn's deteriorating from unseasonably high temps and a lack of rain.
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  • Lowell house explosion kills neighbor, levels home
  • A 43-year-old man was killed after a propane tank leak caused a house to explode in northwest Indiana.
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  • House explodes lowell indiana
  • State police told ABC7 at least one home was leveled in the explosion and another is on fire.
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  • Six people were shot Saturday in a single incident in Gary, Ind. Two male victims died.
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  • Frank Bush, Jr. missing from Porter County, Indiana
  • Frank Bush, Jr. was last seen around 10:30 a.m. Friday leaving his residence in Chesterton, Ind. in a gray 1998 Mercury Marquis 4-door sedan.
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  • Police investigate Gary mans body found in wifes trunk
  • Gary police say there are no obvious signs, like gunshot wounds, that would prove Patrick Bush was killed.
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