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PUC hosts campus crisis forum Tuesday

Purdue University Calumet will hold a forum on campus emergency response Tuesday in light of the mass shooting at Northern Illinois University.

In Could NIU Happen at PUC? members of Purdue Calumet's crisis management team will listen to safety concerns and discuss the school's preparedness plans, including how information would be communicated during a crisis.

The forum, which will include a question-and-answer period, will be recorded and available for viewing at mms://media1.calumet.purdue.edu:8282/wme/puccrisisforum.

The forum will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Calumet Falls student lounge of the school's Student Union & Library.

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Lake commissioners to meet Wednesday

The Lake County Board of Commissioners will hold a public meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday to vote on hiring several consultants to provide engineering studies for highway construction.

They also are expected to vote on medical services for the Lake County Jail, counseling for work-release inmates and purchase 525 electronic voting machines at a cost of $1.4 million.

The public is invited to attend.

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Former In-Pact worker charged in thefts

A Gary woman who formerly worked for the social service agency In-Pact was charged Tuesday with stealing from three clients of the organization.

Carolyn D. Wilson, 35, of Gary, faces three counts of felony theft and one count of felony fraud on a financial institution after she admitted to authorities that she cashed checks signed by three residents last year and took the money, court records say.

The total theft amount was $590, records say.

Wilson told authorities she planned to pay the money back, but had taken it because she was having financial problems due to her husband's drug habit, records say.