A 17-year-old Gary teen faces attempted murder charges after he allegedly broke into a woman’s car on May 7, leaving his iPhone inside.

The agency issued an emergency closure Wednesday at Promises of the Future Childcare Ministry after an employee was charged with child neglect and battery.

Gary daycare Future Leaders Childcare Ministries has been hut down by Indiana officials after a teacher was charged with child neglect and battery.

A 17-year-old Gary teen faces attempted murder charges. He allegedly broke into an older woman’s car on May 7, leaving his iPhone inside. Moments later, after she walked to her car as the car ...

Laniecia Smith is accused of abusing kids at Future Leaders Childcare Ministries in Gary, Indiana during video chats with a Porter County Jail inmate.

A Gary daycare worker is charged after allegedly ignoring kids and occasionally hitting them — while she was spending most of the day on recorded video jail calls with an inmate. Laniecia Smith ...

CEDAR LAKE — Two Gary men are in custody after they were caught driving a U-Haul filled with allegedly stolen furniture and appliances from a recently-sold home in Cedar Lake's Lakeside subdivision.

A day care teacher is accused of abusing children, hitting, threatening and insulting them in the classroom while on video calls with a jail inmate, Indiana police say.

James was gunned down in Gary on Feb. 11, 2019. The trio gunned Dodson down in retaliation, police believe. Barbee was convicted at trial and got 125 years in August.

She spent most of her time on video calls with the inmate, periodically hitting and insulting the children in her care, Indiana officials say.

She spent most of her time on video calls with the inmate, periodically hitting and insulting the children in her care, Indiana officials say.