Feds sue to evict couple from Lake Mich. house

HAMMOND, Ind. -- The U.S. attorney's office in northern Indiana has filed a lawsuit in seeking to have a Porter County couple evicted from a house overlooking Lake Michigan they built in 1960.

The federal lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to evict George and Ann Bagnall. The Post-Tribune of Merrillville reports the Bagnalls were among 20 families who were supposed to move from their Beverly Shores homes by Sept. 30.

After Congress created the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966, the government bought the houses. The Bagnalls were paid $186,750 in 1985. The government gave homeowners time to move, and gave several extensions until this fall.

Ann Bagnall said she doesn't accept she and her husband have to move.