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On Capitol Hill Wednesday - lawmakers heard from a victim's widow - and state and federal regulators -- in connection with the deadly meningitis outbreak that has sickened about 440 people and killed 32 nationwide. The president of the Massachusetts pharmacy traced to tainted steroid injections answered no questions, pleading the Fifth. Congressman Fred Upton - chairman of the full House committee – says what makes him so angry and this incident such a tragedy, is it seems that these deaths and...

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Hoosier Lottery officials say tonight's Powerball drawing with an estimated jackpot of $185 million hasn't gone unnoticed... Ticket sales at retailers around Indiana are said to have been picking up steadily with each passing draw without a jackpot winner. The jackpot was last hit for 50-million-dollars in Delaware, October 3rd. A Hoosier Lottery player laid claim to a Powerball jackpot win in the very first drawing in April, 1992, and since then, the Hoosier Lottery says tickets sold in...

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Afternoon rush hour for the South Shore Line is being affected by a disabled train in East Chicago at last check. The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District, or NICTD, reports that eastbound train 209 is disabled with a damaged pantograph, and as a result, westbound train 218, scheduled to arrive in Chicago at 5:34 this afternoon, is canceled between Gary and Chicago. NICTD says the incident has also canceled eastbound train 117, scheduled to depart from Chicago at 5:58pm. NICTD says...

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Indiana's Attorney General will be in our nation's capital tomorrow morning for a press conference on expanding the fight to stop deceptive business opportunity schemes. Greg Zoeller is teaming up with the Federal Trade Commission for their announcement of a major federal-state law enforcement crackdown on scams that falsely promise jobs and opportunities to “be your own boss” to people who are unemployed or underemployed. The press conference will be held at 11am, eastern standard time, and can...

Read more: Fight to Stop Deceptive Biz Schemes

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Black Friday isn't just one Friday in November anymore. Richard Feinberg, Purdue University professor of consumer science and retailing, says consumers can expect Black Friday sales now and thru the end of the year. Feinberg also says internet shopping starts earlier now, too, so the “Cyber Monday” bump on the Monday after Thanksgiving has “just about been washed out”.   --lw   Here's the full news release from Purdue:

November 13, 2012

Black Friday now lasts the whole season, expert says

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Outside of the trace of snow we saw in part of the Region this week... snow has been a no-show in the Region for a long time this year. In fact, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Chicago, Jim Allsopp tells us the snow in Chicago this past Monday was the first snowfall recorded in the city since March 4^th. "You'll recall we had an incredibly warm March, " Allsopp said, " and that warm weather continued through the rest of the Spring, so the last time we had...

Read more: Lengthy No-Snow Streak for 2012

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The Lowell District of the Indiana State Police in conjunction with the Northern Porter County Traffic Safety Partnership, and Chesterton Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint during the late evening hours in Porter County this Friday night [ November 16, 2012]. The checkpoint is in conjunction with the Operation Pull Over Blitz “Family Safe Travel” that begins Friday, includes the Thanksgiving period, and continues through December 2nd.

Here is the news release:

Porter County- The...

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Two Gary men, ages 18 and 35, face felony armed robbery, criminal confinement and theft charges in a hold-up at a Radio Shack on Calumet Avenue in Munster October 15^th and Munster Police today said a third male subject, believed to be between 17 and 19 years old remains unidentified. Police say a search at the home of one of the suspects recovered several items stolen in the Munster crime along with items stolen from similar Radio Shack robberies in Griffith, Michigan City, and Lansing,...

Read more: Charges Filed in Munster Armed Robbery

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Lake County could be borrowing funds from a neighbor. Today's Times reports the Lake County Council Tuesday by a vote of four-to-six approved the process that could mean a 15-million-dollar loan from Porter County or from the private bond market to pay for things like jail improvements and drainage projects.  For today's full article in the Times, click here:  http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/lake-county-council-oks-m-loan/article_71c1089c-8ab7-5948-9730-afa2c0452724.html

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Read more: Lake Co Takes Next Step on Loan

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Three accidents stopped or slowed traffic on the Indiana Toll Road Tuesday afternoon. The first happened near the LaPorte/ St. Joseph County line around 10:30 am, when a delivery truck went off the roadway near an overpass. A semi reportedly jackknifed about five miles to the east about two-and-a-half hour later. Then within about a half-hour, in LaPorte County, near milepost 53, about four miles east of the LaPorte exit, Toll Road officials report an accident involving three tractor trailers...

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