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KHS will host the IHSA Music Organization Contest Friday, April 8. Performances begin at 4 p.m. and are open to the public.

Maneuver Support Center of Excellence names top civilians, instructors of the year Brian Hill Fort Leonard Wood FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (June 3, 2021) — Maneuver Support Center of Excellence leaders recognized the center’s calendar year 2020 instructors of the year and 2021 civilians of the year during a ceremony June 2 at Lincoln Hall Auditorium. Maj. Gen. James Bonner, MSCoE and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general, and MSCoE and Fort Leonard Wood Command Sgt. Maj. Randolph Delapena presented awards to 11 instructors and 12 civilians. “We have an incredibly diverse and comple...

CROWN POINT — A jury found a man not guilty on all counts Friday after a weeklong trial on charges he murdered a 20-year-old Valparaiso man in 2017 during a drug deal that went bad when the victim's then-16-year-old sister attempted to run off with $25 of prescription pills. Joseph James Allen Gilbert, also known as Joseph Lyell, was acquitted of murder and two counts of criminal recklessness in the shooting death of Michael Brown on Oct. 7, 2017, outside Gilbert's home in the 2400 block of Connecticut Street in Gary. The Lake Criminal Court jury also found Gilbert not guilty of dealing ...

CROWN POINT — A Gary man was convicted Thursday of several counts and acquitted of others in connection with a shooting in Gary in 2019 described by prosecutors as a family's "nightmare of violence." William D. Galloway Jr., 28, of Gary, stood trial this week on allegations he shot a woman four times, attempted to rob and shoot her son Sean Baker, and fired a gun through a window at a pregnant woman and her then-6-year-old child Sept. 18, 2019, at a home in the 2500 block of Pierce Street. Jurors deliberated about three hours before convicting Galloway of one count of attempted murder fo...

GARY — The city's police union is urging the Gary Common Council to override the mayor's veto of the 2021 budget at its Tuesday night meeting — a move that would uphold the council-backed 3%, one-time raise for police and fire personnel.  In a statement released Monday, The Gary Fraternal Order of Police Ben K. Perry Lodge #61 said its members strongly oppose Mayor Jerome Prince's veto of the council's preferred 2021 budget. Prince's Nov. 24 veto eliminated a proposed 3% raise for firefighters and police officers. In speaking with The Times this month, Prince and his acting finan...