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DNR official expects pavilion work to begin soon

All fronts on a controversial plan for Pavilion Partners to renovate the pavilion at Indiana Dunes State Park to include a fine dining restaurant and rooftop bar are moving forward now that the National Park Service has declared that the Indiana Department of Natural Resources will not have to...

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  • Bella Kuechenberg, Bishop Noll volleyball roll to sectional title

    Bishop Noll coach Dave Rodriguez promised to give the girls a scare if they won the Class 2A Boone Grove Sectional championship Saturday night against Lake Station. He was happy, of course, his Warriors squad didn't try to give him a scare. After all, turnabout is fair play. Instead, it was business...

  • Andrean heads to state finals; Munster falls step short in semistate

    Andrean has had high expectations throughout the season. Its performance at Saturday's Class A LaVille Semistate might have exceeded them. The 59ers secured their first semistate title since 1999 by winning two games by a combined score of 7-0. They topped Bellmont 2-0 in the championship game after...

  • Purdue loses halftime lead, game to Nebraska in Gerad Parker's coaching debut

    Purdue loses halftime lead, game to Nebraska in Gerad Parker's coaching debut

    Nebraska's victory over Purdue won't convince skeptics who've been saying the No. 8 Cornhuskers aren't worthy of a top-10 ranking. The wait to find out how good they really are is almost over. In their final tuneup before their Big Ten showdown at No. 10 Wisconsin, they came back from a four-point...

  • Owen Hallas sparks Chesterton to semistate wins, into state championship game

    Owen Hallas sparks Chesterton to semistate wins, into state championship game

    Owen Hallas kneeled at midfield. After Chesterton completed a 2-1 win against West Lafayette Harrison in Saturday night's Class 2A South Bend St. Joseph Semistate final, the senior forward's teammates swarmed him in celebration. For his performance and grit, Hallas earned the team's game MVP, with...

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  • 'Hamilton' is an entertaining stage history lesson

    'Hamilton' is an entertaining stage history lesson

    Kelly Henry is among an army of readers who have been contacting for the past six months with questions about the Broadway in Chicago run of "Hamilton," which is now officially open at PrivateBank Theatre in Chicago, and enjoying much attention and ticket sales with brisk box office returns already...

  • Hayes Leonard principal celebrates nature, mindfulness with students

    Hayes Leonard principal celebrates nature, mindfulness with students

    "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." — Sydney J. Harris I met Bonnie Stephens at the confluence of the Yellow River and the Kankakee River. She is the principal of Hayes Leonard Elementary School in Valparaiso. Mrs. Stephens' fourth and fifth grade students were taking...

  • Indiana GOP loves chasing voter fraud plots

    Here's what happens when you hang around the wrong sort of people. My father warned me about this. They'll lead you to regrettable mistakes, he said. This also, to some degree, explains how bilious, boombox Donald Trump can create tidal waves of pollution. Trump has a lifelong obsession about plots...

  • Casino roundup

    This is what is happening at Chicagoland casinos this weekend. Blue Chip Hotel and Casino, 777 Blue Chip Drive, Michigan City, Ind., 219-879-7711; bluechipcasino.com. Oct. 28, The Bigger Picture Band (6 p.m.); DJ Night (10 p.m., $5 cover); FM Stars (10:30 p.m.). Oct. 29, Planet Groove (1:30 p.m.);...

Opinion

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  • Quickly

    Quickly

    What's Quickly? It's where readers sound off on the issues of the day. Have a quote, question or quip? Call Quickly at 312-222-2426 or email quickly@post-trib.com. Everyone knows Donald Trump is not god. Kanye is. I'd like to know when they're going to start putting lines back on the streets in...

  • Presidential politics stressing your life? Join the club

    Presidential politics stressing your life? Join the club

    Is the volatile presidential election causing you too much stress? Have you lost friends over it? Do you feel estranged by your family over your choice of candidate? You're not alone. More than half of American adults claim similar anxiety amid one of the most contentious races for the Oval Office...

  • Quickly

    Quickly

    What's Quickly? It's where readers sound off on the issues of the day. Have a quote, question or quip? Call Quickly at 312-222-2426 or email quickly@post-trib.com. Quickly has become nothing more than a bunch of paid George Soros operatives slamming Trump, Pence and Republicans on a daily basis....

  • Quickly

    Quickly

    What's Quickly? It's where readers sound off on the issues of the day. Have a quote, question or quip? Call Quickly at 312-222-2426 or email quickly@post-trib.com. Don't go broke trying to look rich. It will be interesting this year if Illinois voters vote out the Madigan cronies who have strangled...

Crime

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  • Law & order: Homeowner reports marijuana find

    Homeowner reports marijuana find A Center Township man contacted police over the weekend after he discovered the box left at his front door by a delivery service had marijuana in it. Deputies with the Porter County Sheriff's Department were contacted around 8:20 p.m. Friday by the man, of the 100...

  • Man, woman shot to death in remote Gary area

    Man, woman shot to death in remote Gary area

    Gary police are investigating the shooting deaths of a Gary man and woman whose bodies were found in a remote part of the city late Friday night. Gary Police Department spokesman Cpl. Doug Drummond said officers responded to a shots fired call at about 11:50 p.m. in the 2000 block of Industrial...

  • Griffith woman said to be on 'upward trend' sentenced

    Griffith woman said to be on 'upward trend' sentenced

    A Griffith woman has been sentenced to five years in an alternative sentencing program for maintaining a common nuisance and a probation revocation. Nancy Lee-Farino, 52, will serve her time in Lake County Community Corrections, Lake Superior Judge Diane Ross Boswell said. Defense attorney Shane...

  • Law & order: Police: Woman stabbed man she invited for encounter

    Law & order: Police: Woman stabbed man she invited for encounter

    Police: Woman stabbed man Charges of battery by means of a deadly weapon and criminal recklessness have been filed against a Hammond woman. Mary Elizando Hernandez, 42, was charged in Lake Superior Court on Thursday in connection with a stabbing Tuesday night. The victim told police he was on...

Crown Point Star

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  • Grandparents, special people join St. Mary's students

    Grandparents, special people join St. Mary's students

    St. Mary's Catholic Community School in Crown Point had a packed house for its annual "Grandparents and Special Persons Day" on Oct. 13. They got such a fantastic turnout that they have to divide the program into two sessions. Everyone loved the band so much that it ran over by almost 10 minutes....

  • Lake County Star Newspaper Almanac

    Lake County Star Newspaper Almanac

    The following are stories as they appeared in The Lake County Star Newspaper. It was a weekly paper started more than 150 years ago that covered all of Lake and most of Porter counties. The paper was owned and operated by the Wheeler Family, descendants of Crown Point founder Solon Robinson. Items...

  • Dogs rule on inflatable obstacle course

    Dogs rule on inflatable obstacle course

    It was just another day at work for two beautiful — handsome — K9s that ran the obstacle course put up as a fundraiser at Camp LRCA in Winfield. The trail was very muddy, but that didn't slow down Crown Point Police Department's K9 Bandit, or the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District's...

  • Lake County Star Newspaper Almanac

    Lake County Star Newspaper Almanac

    The following are stories as they appeared in The Lake County Star Newspaper. It was a weekly paper started more than 150 years ago that covered all of Lake and most of Porter counties. The paper was owned and operated by the Wheeler Family, descendants of Crown Point founder Solon Robinson. Items...

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  • Trump can't just be defeated. He must be humiliated.

    Trump can't just be defeated. He must be humiliated.

    Donald Trump is running against democracy itself. Here, in the land of Barry Goldwater, democracy is fighting back. Only once since 1948 has Arizona gone Democratic in a presidential election, and that was the Ross Perot-skewed 1996 contest. But Trump's manifold charms — most recently his threat...

  • Former Gary employee indicted in computer equipment theft scheme

    Former Gary employee indicted in computer equipment theft scheme

    A federal grand jury indicted a Merrillville woman Monday over allegations she stole more than 1,000 iPads and other computer equipment while employed in the City of Gary's Information Technology Department. Monique Bowling-Boyd, 44, is charged with one count of theft from local government receiving...

  • Kyle Schwarber added to Cubs' World Series roster

    Kyle Schwarber added to Cubs' World Series roster

    The remarkable recovery of left-handed slugger Kyle Schwarber became complete Tuesday morning as the Chicago Cubs added him to their World Series roster. Schwarber, 23, is expected to handle designated hitter duties Tuesday night in Game 1 against the Cleveland Indians - slightly more than six...

  • The argument against putting Kyle Schwarber on the World Series roster

    The argument against putting Kyle Schwarber on the World Series roster

    I love Kyle Schwarber. I love watching him hit. I love his cartoonish home runs. I love his maniacal recovery from knee surgery seven months ago to become a point of discussion before the World Series roster was finalized. The Cubs love Schwarber, too. They especially love his home runs, and they...

  • Activating Kyle Schwarber is bold move — and right move

    Activating Kyle Schwarber is bold move — and right move

    One swing of the bat. That’s all it takes to change a game – and perhaps a series. Sometimes it doesn’t even require a swing, such as when Ben Zobrist laid down a bunt against the Dodgers in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series to start a Cubs rally that ended two games later with...

  • Excited Cubs fans hit the road to Cleveland for World Series opener

    Excited Cubs fans hit the road to Cleveland for World Series opener

    There were Illinois license plates aplenty on the Ohio Turnpike on Monday afternoon as Cubs fans determined to watch baseball history in person hit the road for the five-plus-hour journey to Cleveland for the start of the World Series. With Cubs caps showcased through car windows and mini W flags...

  • World Series preview: Matchups, predictions, rosters

    World Series preview: Matchups, predictions, rosters

    Cubs vs. Indians: Who has the edge? Starting pitching Jon Lester is 4-0 lifetime with a 3.72 ERA in eight career games at Progressive Field, and he never has looked sharper in a Cubs uniform than he has recently. Kyle Hendricks is lined up to pitch at Wrigley Field, where he has done his best work....

  • Free Chipotle today, only for Cubs fans

    Free Chipotle today, only for Cubs fans

    Attention, all Chicago Cubs fans. Not only has your team finally made it to the World Series for the first time since 1945, but now Chipotle is ready to give you free food. To celebrate the start of the series today, Chipotle is offering a buy-one-get-one-free deal. Just purchase any burrito, bowl,...

  • Steve Bartman probably won't throw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field

    Steve Bartman probably won't throw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field

    The movement to have disgraced Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman throw out the first pitch at a World Series game this year has been picking up steam ever since the North Siders clinched their first berth in the Fall Classic in 71 years on Saturday night. Yahoo's Jeff Passan says it's all about finally...

  • Cubs yank World Series ticket offer to Chicago aldermen

    Cubs yank World Series ticket offer to Chicago aldermen

    The Cubs have withdrawn their offer of face-value World Series tickets to Chicago aldermen after a city ethics board determined that taking the team up on the offer could violate a ban on elected officials accepting gifts worth more than $50. Three aldermen on Monday confirmed that the team had...

  • Kyle Schwarber appears likely to be included on Cubs' World Series roster

    Kyle Schwarber appears likely to be included on Cubs' World Series roster

    Barring a setback, it appears Kyle Schwarber's improbable return from left knee surgery will be complete when he is added Tuesday to the Cubs' World Series roster. Schwarber went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk for Mesa in his second Arizona Fall League game Monday and arrived in Cleveland on...

  • New team, new pressure, but Joe Maddon won't change in World Series

    New team, new pressure, but Joe Maddon won't change in World Series

    Joe Maddon has played the roles of philosopher, comedian, zoo director, T-shirt maker and self-help guru in his two years as Cubs manager. But now that he's the first manager to take the Cubs to a World Series since Charlie Grimm in 1945, his sole task is to outmaneuver Indians manager Terry Francona,...

  • Evanston apartment complex employs feral cats to take on rats

    Evanston apartment complex employs feral cats to take on rats

    In a bid to solve what appeared to be an intractable rat infestation, residents at an Evanston apartment complex invited a pair of feral felines onto their property. Now, they say the cats have transformed their courtyard and gardens from a moonscape of rat burrows to a nearly rodent-free pasture....

  • 4 killed on Australian theme park ride

    4 killed on Australian theme park ride

    Four people were killed Tuesday after a river rapids ride malfunctioned at a popular theme park on Australia's east coast, officials said. Two men and two women died while on the ride at Dreamworld, a park on Queensland state's Gold Coast, Queensland police officer Tod Reid told reporters. The...

  • Clear as day, Jay Cutler again the Bears starting QB

    Clear as day, Jay Cutler again the Bears starting QB

    Injuries and circumstance and, yes, some cryptic public language from coach John Fox spun the Bears quarterback situation into a confusing state over the last five weeks. But on Monday, the Tilt-A-Whirl stopped — at least temporarily. Jay Cutler, Fox announced, has finally been cleared by the team's...

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