Lake County

A sample in a pool of mosquitoes tested positive for West Nile Virus in both Greene and Monroe counties.

Police are investigating several scenarios, including whether the incident was a murder-suicide. No arrests have been made but authorities say there’s no public safety threat.

Lake County sheriff’s police sent to a home in Griffith found two men dead and a third in critical condition, all having suffered gunshot wounds, Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. said.

A former fifth-grade teacher in northwestern Indiana was charged with felony intimidation after authorities say she told a student she had a “kill list” of students.

The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld the murder convictions of a man in the killings of a woman and two teens who were bludgeoned to death in 1998 in a house in northwest Indiana.

They said IDEM's decision to renew a permit for a waste processing facility disproportionately harms Black and Brown residents in Gary — a community that’s already overburdened by pollution.

Investigators are trying to determine the circumstances of the shooting, including whether more than one shooter was involved.

James H. Higgason III, 52, of Whiting, found guilty Friday of murder and murder during the commission of a robbery, could face consecutive sentences of 45 to 65 years when he’s sentenced June 24.

A Lake County jury found Alvino S. “Vino” Amaya, 37, guilty of two counts of murder and a firearm enhancement last month in the slayings of 18-year-old Elijah Robinson and Maxwell Kroll, 17.

Lake Criminal Court Judge Salvador Vasquez on Thursday granted prosecutors’ motions to dismiss the charges James Hill, 59, and Pierre L. Catlett, 67, faced in the November 1980 killing of Officer Lawrence Pucalik.