Bob Kasarda

An 84-year-old Valparaiso man has died just more than than two weeks after his golf cart collided with a pickup truck at McCord Road and Calumet Avenue in Valparaiso, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

LAPORTE — County police said they located three wanted people Wednesday — including one man sought on several child molesting charges — during a compliance check of 44 sex offenders across LaPorte County.

The recent incident is the third time in the past year the children were found in such conditions, dating back to September 2023 when an officer reportedly found one child

LAPORTE — A 21-year-old woman is behind bars and charged with neglect after her 9-week-old son died as a result of starvation, records show.

"I clearly got the message," Donald Johnson said. "I screwed up."

PORTAGE — Police say a 29-year-old driver pulled over Wednesday morning for speeding in a school zone had various forms of used and unused marijuana products.

VALPARAISO — At least one resolution was reached late Friday morning in the decade-old fraud case involving Porter resident Donald Johnson.

The woman is then accused of pulling out a silver gun from her coat pocket and walking toward the other vehicle pointing the gun and saying, "Get on and go."

Police said they were notified around 10:55 a.m. Sunday by a license plate recognition system that the 2017 BMW 750 southbound on Ind. 49 near the toll road was reported

Holcomb expects to appoint DeBoer's successor sometime before the Jan. 13 end of his second and final term.