Saturdays in the Sun Saturday Farmers Market TacoFest Cruise Night LakeFest Media FilmPrancer (1989) and A Piece of Eden (2000) were filmed on location in La Porte. PrintLaPorte Herald-Argus is the only newspaper serving the City of La Porte. This media has since been combined with "The News Dispatch" to form "The Herald Dispatch". Broadcast La Porte receives television broadcasts and other radio broadcasts from Chicago and South Bend. Radio WCOE, 96.7 FM, WLOI, 1540 AM and Rock, 106.5 FM In the 1990s WCOE was a broadcast home to the area NBA Team Chicago Bulls. They broadcast Championship Bulls teams. Notable people Dick Alban – former National Football League defensive back and Pro-Bowler Abram Andrew – United States Representative from Massachusetts Chuck Baldwin – Baptist minister and 2008 Presidential nominee of the Constitution Party Chris Bootcheck – Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Anne E. Carpenter – American scientist and the co-creator of CellProfiler John C. Chapple – Wisconsin legislator and newspaper editor Dorothy Christ – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player Art Cross – former race car driver; first Rookie of the Year at the Indianapolis 500 Brian Ebersole – Mixed martial arts veteran; UFC welterweight division fighter Daniel Edwards – figurative sculptor and artist Charlie O. Finley – owner of the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics 1960–80 Belle Gunness – serial killer active from 1884 to 1908 John D. Hancock – stage and film director, producer and writer Harold Handley – 40th Governor of Indiana, served from 1957 to 1961 Hazel Harrison – pianist, known as the premiere black pianist of her time Royal R. Ingersoll – U.S. Navy rear admiral Paul Rowland Julian – meteorologist who with Roland A. Madden discovered the atmospheric phenomena known as the Madden–Julian oscillation Peter Kesling – orthodontist known for the development of the tip-edge orthodontic appliance Karl Paul Link – biochemist best known for his discovery of the anticoagulant warfarin William Worrall Mayo – founder of the Mayo Clinic Henrietta Meeteer – Latin and Greek professor and dean at Swarthmore College Alvera Mickelsen – writer and advocate of Christian feminism Douglas J. Moo – New Testament scholar Patrick Neary – Roman Catholic Priest and Bishop Isamu Noguchi – Japanese-American artist and landscape architect Tom Nowatzke – former National Football League running back Tony Raines – NASCAR driver Ron Reed – Major League Baseball pitcher, an All-Star