A fire ripped through a historic abandoned high school in Indiana late Saturday ... also known as Emerson Center for Visual and Performing Arts," Gary Community School Corporation Manager Dr ...

More than 28 abandoned and boarded up schools in one Midwest city contribute to urban blight — and in some cases have served ...

Wirt/Emerson High School, at 210 N Grand Blvd., in Gary, Ind., had the highest number of 911 calls out of over 20 vacant ...

(WLS) -- There was a large fire at an abandon school building early Sunday in Gary, Indiana. Firefighters worked through the night to put out a massive blaze at the old Ralph Waldo Emerson High ...

A fire broke out for the second time in six months at the abandoned Emerson High School in Gary on ... scene around an hour later. The Gary Fire Department and Indiana State Fire marshals are ...

GARY, Ind. — Firefighters battled a fire at the former historic Emerson High School in Gary Saturday ... Firefighters from multiple northwest Indiana communities including Merryville and Munster ...

GARY, Ind. (CBS) --An old high school went up in flames in Gary, Indiana. Bright fire and smoke were seen coming from high above the roof at the old Emerson High School on 7th Avenue and Carolina ...

To him, it seemed like an apt metaphor for Gary ... readily identify Indiana with basketball.” Photographer Michael Keating frames a shot in closed Emerson High School on Wednesday, October ...

An investigation is underway into a “heavy” fire that broke out Saturday evening in the roof and attic of the abandoned Emerson High School ... Gary’s fire department and the Indiana ...

The 2017-18 school year is the last hurrah for the high school ... "Similar to Wakanda, Gary has Wirt-Emerson, the only school in Northwest Indiana that produces amazing black talent and still ...

Roosevelt High School, a pillar of the Black community in Gary, Indiana, that has fallen into ... the school corporation attempted to integrate Emerson High School racially. Built in 1930 ...

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado. WGN's Jenna Barnes localizes the story ...