It was the first year in the Ports of Indiana's history that the state's three ports handled more than 12 million tons.

Save the Dunes announced Thursday that it's acquired tracts of land totaling nearly 100 acres in Hobart, about five miles southeast of Gary.

The IndianaShipwrecks.org website includes a recreation of the wreck of the J.D. Marshall, which sank in 1911, and three other shipwrecks in the lake.