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Lake Station Man Sentenced to 36 Years in Prison Posted on For Drug Conspiracy and Causing Death During the Drug Conspiracy HAMMOND-Lajuan Fitzpatrick, 29, of Lake Station, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon to 36 years in prison following his conviction at trial in November 2019 of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and discharging a firearm causing death during this drug trafficking crime, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Gary T. Bell.     The evidence at trial showed that on December 2, 2013, in Gary, Indiana, Fitzpatrick and his co...

Kash Lee Kelly was on pretrial release from his drug conspiracy case when he made headlines for being charged with joining hundreds of Trump supporters who breached police lines at

HAMMOND — U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon imposed a 261-month sentence Thursday on 34-year-old Jeremiah Ellis for a string of armed robberies.

Carrots, while in the ground, are home to a community of microorganisms, some members of which wage a kind of battle for supremacy against others that cause plant disease and costly losses to farmers who grow the vegetable. Now, a team of university and Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists has begun to identify some of these "good guy" microbes. Reported in the June 2020 issue of PLOS One, the findings provide a critical step toward learning how carrot growers could enlist these beneficial microbes as an effective defense against diseases like Alternaria leaf blight. One clue to em...