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Like Best Actor, the Best Actress category this year is positively stacked. Jessica Chastain became the leader of the pack when she surprised at the SAGs for "The Eyes of ....
About five minutes before the fire started Monday, the defendant was seen carrying three bottles of lighter fluid into a back storeroom, court records said. ....
Police clashed with protesters for a second night Monday in Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb. Authorities there say an officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright on Sunday apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun. As events related to the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a now-former Minnesota police officer and the trial of another former officer charged in the death of another unarmed black man play out hundreds of miles away, Northwest Indiana law enforcement leaders and activists are paying close attention. The fatal shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center came during the nearby trial for an officer charged in George Floyd s death. ....
HAMMOND â The city of Hammond has reached a settlement deal with five Northwest Indiana communities that sued late last year to object to Hammond s newly approved water rate hikes. Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. confirmed the existence of a pending settlement between Hammond and towns of Highland, Munster, Griffith, Dyer and city of Whiting during a City Council meeting this week. The Hammond City Council voted 9-0 in November to raise Hammond residentsâ water bills from 44 cents to $1.90 per 1,000 gallons starting Jan. 1. The rate hike â which also applied to wholesale customers â was swiftly criticized by the officials in Highland, Munster, Griffith, Dyer and Whiting. They argued that the sudden, automatic triggering of rate hikes for those cities and towns were discriminatory, unreasonable, and unjust under Indiana law, and followed up with a lawsuit. ....