Amongst the blessed men to survive the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, The Battle of Gettysburg, was a true Fighting Irish priest, Father William Corby, of Notre Dame, the son of Irish immigrants. This is his story.
In 1945, some 18 years before he traveled to Ireland, JFK wrote a lengthy article about then Taoiseach Éamon De Valera and his efforts to reunite the country in a prescient piece that highlighted the troubles bubbling under the surface in Northern Ireland.
CROWN POINT â A Lake Criminal Court judge on Tuesday set aside a man s murder conviction in the 1980 shooting death of an off-duty Hammond police officer because prosecutors didn t turn over evidence to the man s defense before his trial more than two years ago.
James Hill Jr., 58, was serving a 40-year sentence following his August 2018 conviction for murder in perpetration of a robbery in the homicide of Officer Lawrence J. Larry Pucalik on Nov. 14, 1980, at the Holiday Inn-Southeast, formerly at the intersection of Cline Avenue and Interstate 80/94.
In a joint motion filed Tuesday, defense attorney Scott King and Lake County First Assistant Deputy Prosecutor Peter Villarreal asked Judge Salvador Vasquez to release Hill from prison on his own recognizance pending a resolution of the case.