EAST CHICAGO — Former Mayor Robert A ... two weeks short of his 89th birthday. Robert Cantrell, former city Republican chairman, recalled, “Everybody liked and hated Pastrick.

EAST CHICAGO | Political operative Robert Cantrell is denying allegations from a second judge that he tried to cajole the court into hiring a counseling firm that was paying Cantrell fees.

The Indiana Supreme Court upheld a former Gary teenager’s 110-year prison sentence Wednesday for a 1996 East Chicago triple homicide after years of winding appeals. McKinley Kelly, now 46 ...