Lake County

Illini Panthers owner Hailey Gist-Holden was moving players around from hotel to hotel, trying to dodge charges, and pawning his own stuff right before he robbed a bank in Gary and killed a security guard, prosecutors said.

The tornado that passed through Crete on Saturday was an EF0 with winds of 70 miles per hour. A second twister with peak winds of 75 miles per hour roared through Dyer and Schererville.

Tornado sirens blared in Chicago and many suburbs on Saturday as the entire area was slammed with heavy rains and flash floods.

Tornado warnings were issued for a dozen cities and towns in the Chicago suburbs on Saturday, including Bradley, Manteno, Peotone, Lansing and Bourbonnais. Tornado sirens briefly blared in parts of Chicago Saturday afternoon, but a tornado warning was allowed to expire after rotation clouds passed over the North and Lower West sides of the city.

Sick and dying songbirds have been reported across Indiana, and no one knows the cause. Until the mystery is solved, people are being asked to remove their birdfeeders.

A 10-year-old girl and two adults were killed after a car was hit by a train in East Chicago. Three males are in critical condition.

Indiana State Police said that Hammond Police spotted Shivam Vikrant Patel 10 minutes later speeding along Calumet Avenue. Patel crashed into a pole and got out with what was clearly a handgun in his waistband, police said.

Two men have been charged with a bank robbery last Tuesday in northwest Indiana, and one of them remains at-large, according to police.

The dangerous swimming conditions will last all day Monday for beaches in Gary, Whiting, East Chicago, Hammond and Michigan City.

A second suspect has been arrested in connection to the shooting death of a security guard at a bank in Gary last week, the FBI said.

The bank robber was wearing a white "hazmat" type suit, blue hard hat, and goggles. He got away with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.

Richard Castellana, known as "Ricky" by loved ones, was a diehard Chicago White Sox fan. He had plans to be at the game Monday night with his family, but last week he left for work and never came home.

A Merrillville man was charged Wednesday with molesting a child under the age of 14.

A 24-year-old Florida man has been charged with murdering a security guard outside a Gary bank last week, Lake County Sheriff's office said.

A security guard who was fatally shot outside of a bank in Gary, Indiana has been identified as a former Cook County Sheriff's Deputy.