East Chicago

NEW DETAILS: Parents in the school community have now issued a letter asking the school to live up to its mission statement.

The student told their counselor that their 5th grade teacher had made comments Wednesday about killing herself, students and staff at St. Stanislaus School, East Chicago police said.

Bullets pierced the driver’s side door and the back of the van, one of them hitting 7-year-old Jeremiah Moore in the back of the head as he slept, killing him.

Researchers found firearm death rates among children in the U.S has surged by 30 percent between 2010 and 2019. In Illinois and Indiana, those numbers are even higher.

"They shot my nephew in the back of the head. He was sleeping in his car seat and they shot my nephew for no reason," said Dameion Bey, 7-year-old Jeremiah Moore’s uncle.

A man was shot and critically wounded while riding in a car Monday morning in the East Garfield Park neighborhood.

Slag is a highly volatile byproduct of steelmaking prone to exploding when mixed with water.

The Toyota Corolla lost control during the pursuit near Columbus Drive and Butternut Street. The vehicle then struck a cement planter and came to a stop. The driver and passenger had to be extricated.

A veteran officer of the Lake County, Indiana Sheriff's Department was found dead in his patrol car in the East Chicago Courthouse parking lot Friday afternoon.

For Chicagoans of a certain age, Wednesday was the anniversary of the Mother of All Snow-Storms, which hit 55 years ago: The Blizzard of 1967.

Police have released surveillance footage to help identify a man wanted for a murder outside an East Chicago, Indiana bar on Christmas Day.

A homicide investigation is underway after a man was shot dead in East Chicago Thursday afternoon, according to the Lake County Coroner.