Coming Sunday, ride along with Specialist Dyer as he patrols LaPorte.
Cleveland-based Health Action Council, a nonprofit that represents mid- and large-size employers, released a report on states' health outcomes and health care spending. The study looked at access to care, health care system performance, public health, prevention, and the social, economic and physical environments in each state.
It ranked Indiana in the bottom quarter, concluding Hoosiers are generally less healthy and spend more on health care than the rest of the country.
Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. and other community leaders lead a protest outside Franciscan Health Hammond in response to plans to downsize the facility.