January brings added financial pressure for households across Gary and Northwest Indiana, as heating costs rise and grocery prices remain elevated. Food insecurity continues to affect a significant share of people in the region.

A 26-year effort by the city of Gary, Indiana, to bring a dozen firearms manufacturers and distributors to court over gun violence seemingly came to an end Monday, after the Indiana Court of Appeals dismissed the city’s long-running lawsuit – citing a 2024 state law that bans cities from suing firearms companies.

Few cities in the United States have experienced a faster rise and fall than Gary, Indiana. Founded in 1906, the city is part of the state’s “ last frontier ”—the final piece developed exactly 90 years after statehood. It took Gary half a century to reach its peak, and about another to hit rock bottom.

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An Indiana court ruled that a 2024 state law can retroactively kill Gary's lawsuit against gun manufacturers. Critics rebuked the state law as a "power grab."

A 2024 state law that stripped all Indiana municipalities of their authority to sue the gun industry is constitutional, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Monday in overturning a Lake Superior Court judge’s decision not to dismiss a 26-year-old-lawsuit brought by the City of Gary against gun manufacturers and sellers.

The Court of Appeals of Indiana directed the trial court to dismiss the 26-year old Gary gun lawsuit, citing a state law passed last year.