LAKE STATION, Ind. -- Police conducting a welfare check Friday afternoon discovered five people dead inside a home in northwest Indiana. When officers arrived at the home in Lake Station, about 34 miles (55 kilometers) southeast of Chicago, they obtained a search warrant and found the bodies, according to a Lake Station Police Department statement.

Three people died Friday afternoon in a shooting in the parking lot of a state-run driver's license branch in Louisville, Ky., police said.

Officers conducting a welfare check found five deceased people Friday afternoon inside a home in Northwest Indiana.