A Portage woman, Angelia Nicole Cross (48), has been sentenced to 20 years in the Indiana Department of Correction after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit murder in connection with the April 30, 2024, killing of Kylin Stovall-Bursey in Gary, according to Lake Superior Court records. Cross appeared in Lake Superior Court, Criminal Division 4, … Read more
An Indiana man died Monday afternoon after falling through the ice on a private pond while trying to save his dog. Indiana Conservation Officers said emergency crews responded to the area near the 70000 block of County Road 29 in Syracuse around 4 p.m. Investigators determined that 69-year-old Phillip Hoover had walked onto the frozen … Read more
The Indiana State Police say they are investigating a crash between an Amish buggy and a motor vehicle that happened around 3 p.m. Wednesday on US 20 near C.R. 1000 West. Police say their preliminary investigation showed the horse-drawn buggy, carrying 75-year-old Marvin and 74-year-old Ruby Shrock of Shipshewana, was traveling east along the shoulder … Read more
Court documents from Marshall County show that 46-year-old Damon Daniels faces multiple charges for graffiti on a Plymouth church, a residence, an attorney’s office, a truck, and damage to parked cars. Authorities charged Daniels with three counts of Criminal Mischief involving damage between $750 and $50,000 — all misdemeanors — and one count of Institutional … Read more
The Massachusetts jury hearing the case against Brian Walshe viewed a series of photos Wednesday showing items covered in what appeared to be blood, as prosecutors continued building their argument that he murdered his wife around New Year’s 2023. The evidence presentation marked the third day of witness testimony in Walshe’s murder trial. Prosecutors also … Read more
A 29-year-old Indianapolis man has been sentenced to 35 years in the Indiana Department of Correction after pleading guilty in the 2023 shooting death of Jalen Hurd, according to Lake County court records. Keeon Jamarr Lee, whom investigators identified using surveillance video, vehicle records, cell-phone data, and evidence recovered from a Buick Lacrosse registered to … Read more
A Merrillville man, 25-year-old Joseph Steven Sanders, has been charged in Lake County after investigators detailed a violent incident that they say caused significant injuries during an alleged domestic battery and confinement on November 29, 2025. According to the probable cause affidavit, officers responded to a Merrillville home after receiving a report that a man … Read more
Jeffrey Raymond Crider, 20, of DeMotte, has been charged and arrested after investigators say security footage captured him breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s Hebron apartment, cutting out a window screen, entering the residence, and leaving with her pet cat. According to the probable cause affidavit, police were dispatched around 11:45 AM on October 22, 2025, to … Read more
Authorities have charged Sean Ray James Hutchins, 37, of Valparaiso, with three felony counts of child molesting after investigators documented allegations involving a child at a Danvers Parkway home between 2021 and 2022. According to the affidavit, a family member took a young child to the Valparaiso Police Department on September 30, 2022, reporting concerns … Read more
Joshua Westervelt, 36, is facing felony charges after police say he spent the year repeatedly stealing and selling copper wire from utility poles on Indy’s near east side. Court records from Marion County show Westervelt began small in January, selling a few pounds of stolen wire for $2 to $20. The amounts quickly escalated into … Read more