Several days after Strong’s arrest, authorities on Aug. 27 took two Gary teens — both alleged members of the Get Fresh Boys street gang — into custody after they held an undercover detective ...

"What we are seeing now is organized street gangs, and our office has been very effective with prosecuting those," said Joseph Van Bokkelen, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Indiana.

The Sin City Deciples began as a Black club before integrating with whites and Hispanics. It had thousands of members — including a Gary, Ind., police chaplain, prosecutors say. Indictments have aimed ...

The leader of an MS-13 clique in the suburbs of New York City was sentenced Wednesday to 68 years in prison in a federal ...

Gary, Indiana, is home to three steel mills and one of America's largest Black populations. It also has some of the dirtiest air in the country, and residents who have been breathing it say they ...

More than 28 abandoned and boarded up schools in Gary, Indiana, contribute to urban blight — and in some cases have served as scenes of the worst possible crimes. Local leaders say they are ...

The Times of Northwest Indiana obtained through public documents the numbers of 911 calls to every vacant school building in Gary between 2019 and Nov. 1, 2024. There were over 1,800 calls. The ...