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Former Portage girls softball league board member charged with theft over loss of more than $270K

February 12, 2025 at 2:18 p.m.

A Valparaiso woman has been charged with felony counts of theft and forgery after stealing more than $270,000 from a Portage girls softball league because of a gambling problem, according...

Shannon Orton (Portage Police Department/provided)

Police: ‘Multiple suspects’ in case of missing Hobart woman whose body was recently found in Portage

February 5, 2025 at 3:07 p.m.

The Portage Police Department is asking for the public's assistance as it continues to piece together the case surrounding a missing Hobart woman whose remains were recently found in Portage.

Pat Ingram of Valparaiso describes her experience being picked up for impaired driving by Valparaiso Police when she was having a stroke last year while driving. (Michael Gard/for the Post-Tribune)

Valparaiso woman who had stroke wants to raise awareness, particularly for first responders

January 26, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

For the most part, Pat Ingram has recovered from the stroke and has been able to piece together what happened on Jan. 17 of last year. What she and her...

Valparaiso School Board President Robert Behrend listens as Vice President Erika Watkins says two residents took the air out of the room when they asked for Behrend’s resignation during the school board meeting on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. Resident Kathy Watts provided the board with a Christmas card and property tax bills indicating Behrend now lives in Wisconsin. (Doug Ross/for Post-Tribune)

School board president with home in Wisconsin: ‘Valparaiso is my permanent home’

January 25, 2025 at 8:58 a.m.

The president of the Valparaiso School Board said in a statement to the Post-Tribune that despite owning a home in Wisconsin, his primary residence remains in Valparaiso and he is...

Valparaiso School Board president’s Wisconsin address prompts pressure for his ouster

January 24, 2025 at 1:01 p.m.

Two residents asked for Dr. Robert Behrend’s resignation from the Valparaiso School Board, citing evidence he now lives in Wisconsin, just minutes after he was elected president of the Valparaiso...

Former Valparaiso University President Mark Heckler passes a medal to newly inaugurated President Jose Padilla on Saturday, October 30, 2021. (Kyle Telechan for the Post-Tribune)

Valparaiso University President José Padilla announces end of year retirement

January 22, 2025 at 4:01 p.m.

Valparaiso University President José Padilla announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of the calendar year, capping a five-year tenure which saw disruptions on campus caused by the...

A sign on a truck in the parking lot of Geisen Funeral Home at the funeral of 10-year old Dakota Levi Stevens, calls for answers to his death, Monday, May 6, 2024, in Crown Point. (Vincent D. Johnson/for the Post-Tribune)

Former foster mom sentenced to five years in prison, one on probation, in boy’s death

January 17, 2025 at 4:31 p.m.

Jennifer Lee Wilson, the Valparaiso area woman who pleaded guilty to a felony count of reckless homicide in the death of her foster son, Dakota Levi Stevens, will serve five...

A DG Market is slated to open in Hebron in the late summer on Costin Drive, on the town's south side. When Patz's Market closed in Nov. 2017, the town was left without a grocery store. (Amy Lavalley/Post-Tribune)

Hebron getting grocery store after seven years without one: ‘We don’t want to be a food desert anymore’

January 13, 2025 at 12:59 p.m.

When Patz's Market in Hebron closed in November 2017, the small town in southern Porter County was left without a grocery store. Community leaders spent the last five years trying...

Tina Nabhan, right, and her husband Nedal stayed at the Royal Sonesta for New Years. The terrorist attack on Jan. 1, 2025, occurred in front of their hotel, pictured in the background, hours after this picture was taken. (Tina Nabhan/provided)

Witness recounts horror of New Orleans terrorist attack: ‘It still doesn’t even seem real’

January 6, 2025 at 3:25 p.m.

Tina Nabhan said she and her husband, Nedal, frequently travel to New Orleans from their Portage home. What the Nabhans didn't expect was to be awakened early on New Year's...

Porter man’s hearing on probation revocation postponed because his attorneys quit

January 3, 2025 at 3:13 p.m.

A Porter man whose securities fraud case has stretched on for more than a decade will remain in Porter County Jail at least until an April hearing on whether his...

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