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Myrlianis Salgado-Milan, 5 months, sits in a stroller while mother, Hammond resident Elizabeth Rodriguez, picks flowers during the FarmHer to Mama event at Hickory Hills Flower Farm on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

‘All this is healing me’: Northwest Indiana program brings together new moms and women farmers

September 27, 2024 at 12:33 p.m.

This is more than a trip to a flower farm for family photos in the golden, late afternoon sun. It is an opportunity for lower-income pregnant women and mothers of...

Former Portage Mayor James Snyder speaks about his retrial at the federal courthouse in Hammond on March 9, 2021. A proposed Indiana House bill would ban public officials from accepting gratuities. The bill was drafted in response to the U.S. Supreme Court throwing out one of the counts Snyder was convicted on due to Indiana not banning gratuities. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Court filings: Former Portage mayor argues no need for new trial while feds ask for one

September 23, 2024 at 2:46 p.m.

Former Portage Mayor James Snyder and federal prosecutors agree on one point -- in light of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning his bribery conviction involving the purchase of garbage trucks,...

Rhyker Earl, 26, right, died on Sept. 10, 2024, two days after a family attorney says he had a severe seizure and police restrained him until he stopped breathing. He is pictured with his aunt, Miracle Gawlinski. (Wagner Reese LLP/photo)

Jasper County sheriff denies claims by family attorney in DeMotte man’s death

September 19, 2024 at 4:13 p.m.

In a statement released Thursday, Jasper County Sheriff Patrick Williamson Sr. denied claims about how Rhyker Earl, 26, of DeMotte, was restrained by police before his death, made by his...

Family calls for investigation of Jasper County man’s death after police call for seizure

September 18, 2024 at 3:23 p.m.

A DeMotte man, according to one of his family's attorneys, died after he had a severe seizure and police restrained him face down and held him down while he begged...

Porter County Administration Building, 155 Indiana Ave., Valparaiso.
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Investigation into Porter County official sparks discussion at county council meeting

September 16, 2024 at 4:19 p.m.

A special prosecutor announced Monday that he would not file charges against a Porter County elected official stemming from an incident in late August, but community members and a county...

Visitors stand near a table adorned with photos of Dakota Levi Stevens 10, who died in foster care in late April, during a vigil in his memory in Valparaiso on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

No contact order remains between woman charged with foster son’s death and her adopted sons

September 5, 2024 at 3:52 p.m.

A Liberty Township woman charged in the death of a foster boy in her care will have to continue abiding by a no-contact order for two of the adopted children...

Dick Brauer, founder of the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, pauses while speaking at Pines Village Retirement Communities in Valparaiso, Indiana Monday February 6, 2023. (Andy Lavalley for the Post-Tribune)

Brauer Museum’s founder and namesake will remove name if Valparaiso University sells artwork

September 5, 2024 at 1:44 p.m.

Richard Brauer, who turned 97 last month, has said since he found out that Valparaiso University officials wanted to sell three cornerstone paintings from the campus museum that bears his...

A visitor walks among paintings, including Georgia O'Keeffe's "Rust Red Hills" (right) at the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus in Valparaiso, Indiana Friday February 10, 2023. Campus and community members continue to react to announcement of the pending sale of O'Keeffe's and two other works to fund first-year student dorm renovations. (Andy Lavalley for the Post-Tribune)

Magistrate rules Brauer Museum paintings can be sold, amending trust agreement

September 4, 2024 at 3:26 p.m.

Three cornerstone paintings from the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus, including one by Georgia O'Keeffe that has been displayed in museums across the globe, will be...

Richard Brauer withdraws from court case over sale of paintings from his namesake museum

August 30, 2024 at 4:13 p.m.

The last barrier to Valparaiso University's plan to auction off three cornerstone pieces of artwork from the Brauer Museum of Art has been removed as Richard Brauer, the museum's namesake,...

Former Portage Mayor James Snyder arrives with attorney, Jackie Bennett Jr, and his wife, Deborah, to federal court in Hammond on March 15, 2018. (Kyle Telechan/for the Post-Tribune)

Former Portage Mayor James Snyder wants bribery case dismissed; feds want it retried

August 20, 2024 at 4:04 p.m.

Former Portage Mayor James Snyder's federal court case isn't over yet, as his attorneys and federal prosecutors make a bid to have his bribery case, which was overturned by the...

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