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Nextdoor neighbor jazzes up Germantown with a monthly jazz festival “He pulls out like four or five instruments every time we come out here… He’s just so talented," said Kai Pamintuan, a Germantown resident. Author: Brittani Moncrease Updated: 7:12 PM CDT July 27, 2021 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Music has a way to make you press pause on all the problem of the world.  Having endured a pandemic, a Germantown community finds comfort in a monthly jazz festival on a N...

When late Lake County Sheriff Lillian Holley’s 1933 Ford V8 police car rolled back into Crown Point this April amid massive crowds of spectators 87 years after John Dillinger stole it during his infamous jailbreak, television host Josh Gates and a crew were there to film it all. The hourlong episode Gates shot about Dillinger in Crown Point will air on Discovery at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Entitled "Dillingers Lost Loot," its the season premiere of the eighth season of his show "Expedition Unk...

ABERDEEN – The Aberdeen Fire Department responded to a house fire Tuesday at 1005 S Meridian St. prompted by a downed limb from a severe weather system. “When the wind and rain was coming through, a limb fell out a tree behind the house and hit the power line that was going to a weatherhead. It knocked the weatherhead loose and shorted out the wiring and started right there and went into the attic,” said Aberdeen Fire Chief Fred Hodges. The occupant, Rhonda Johnson, made it out o...

The car driven by John Dillinger to escape Crown Point comes to the city. CROWN POINT — Lake County put on a homecoming worthy of a big screen gangster movie for the return of the Lillian Holley car. The jet black 1934 V-8 Ford that depression-era desperado John Dillinger stole in his famous jail escape 87 years ago cruised back to the Sheriff’s House on Saturday afternoon. It arrived with a motorcade, directed by Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr., of county police cars, motorcyc...

Mark Love, of Avondale, Arizona, whose late father co-owned a collection of Dillinger artifacts, believes, however, that the car is a great honor to her and a huge part of history that belongs in Northwest Indiana.

CROWN POINT — Lake County put on a homecoming worthy of a big screen gangster movie for the return of the Lillian Holley car. The jet black 1934 V-8 Ford that depression-era desperado John Dillinger stole in his famous jail escape 87 years ago cruised back to the Sheriff’s House on Saturday afternoon. The car driven by John Dillinger to eascape Crown Point comes to the city. It arrived with a motorcade, directed by Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr., of county police cars, motorcy...

Joseph S. Pete , 219-933-3316 After John Dillinger was arrested for the murder of a police officer during a bank robbery, he escaped from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, and stole the Lake County sheriffs car. Now, 87 years after the jailbreak, Sheriff Lillian Holley’s car is returning.  It was tracked down and restored by Arizona resident Mark Love and the Old Sheriffs House Foundation in Crown Point.  Joseph S. Pete , 219-933-3316 CROWN POINT, Indiana â€�...

Relatives of John Dillinger and Lake County Sheriff Lillian Holley will be on hand Saturday after the 1933 Ford V8 police car the infamous bank robber stole returns home to Crown Point for the first time in 87 years. Thousands are expected to attend when Holleys historic car returns to Old Sheriffs House and Jail at 226 S. Main St. in Crown Point after departing in a motorcade of Lake County Sheriffs Department police vehicles, including a helicopter, from the Lake County Government Cente...

Mountain Vista The Governing Board of Mountain Vista Governors School has announced Kelly A. Huff has been named regional director. Huff succeeds Roseanne Williamson, who will retire as director on Jan. 1. Mountain Vista is a governors school for math, science and technology that serves over 200 gifted and talented high school students from the school divisions of Clark, Culpeper, Frederick, Fauquier, Winchester City, Rappahannock and Warren. As regional director, Huff will serve as the princip...