SHERRIFF'S DEPUTY-WRECK
Four hurt in roadside crash east of Indianapolis
GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) - Authorities say four people were injured when a car veered into a cruiser belonging to a sheriff's deputy who stopped to help a motorist on a highway east of Indianapolis.
Hancock County Sheriff's Captain Robert Campbell says Deputy Jacob Lewis was on patrol about 3:30 p.m. Friday when he stopped to help a driver whose pickup truck was on the grass median of U.S. 40 near Greenfield. Another car then veered off the highway and struck the police car, shoving it into the truck.
Campbell says Lewis, the truck driver, the car driver and a passenger in the car all were injured and were taken to an Indianapolis hospital.
Campbell says the car's driver and passenger apparently fell asleep while returning from a long trip.
TODDLER-MOLESTATION
NW Ind. woman pleads guilty in molest of toddler
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) - A northwestern Indiana woman has pleaded guilty to molesting a 2-year-old boy and sending photographs to her boyfriend.
Twenty-3-year-old Tara Tryon would be sentenced to 10 years in prison if a Porter County judge accepts a plea agreement. Five counts would be dropped in return for her guilty plea on felony charges of child molestation and child exploitation. The Times reports she also would have to register as a sex offender.
Tryon said she began molesting the toddler in 2010 while she was baby-sitting for him, and sent photographs to her then boyfriend, 27-year-old Ryan Schroeder.
A jury convicted Schroeder in December on 23 counts that include aiding child molestation and child exploitation. He was sentenced to 54 years in prison.
Schroeder says he intends to appeal.
INDIANA CREEK-BODIES
Police: Indiana mom died after killing 2 kids
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) - Police say a woman found drowned in a southern Indiana creek with her son and daughter had killed the children and believed her family was being stalked by "demonic presences."
The body of 35-year-old Jaime Clutter was found in March, along with the bodies of her 10-year-old son, Brandon, and 6-month-old daughter, Katelyn. The naked bodies were recovered in a park in New Albany, less than a mile from where the family.
New Albany Police Chief Sherri Knight said during a news conference Friday that authorities don't know whether Clutter killed herself or downed by accident. Knight says hypothermia was a significant contributing factor. Knight added that Clutter thought she and her children were being stalked by "demonic presences."
New Albany is about 5 miles from Louisville, Ky.
FERTILIZER PLANT-PAKISTAN-RESPONSE
Fertilizer group says it will go on without state
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Pakistan-based Developers who want to build a fertilizer plant in southwest Indiana say they'll continue with the project despite the withdrawal of state incentives.
Midwest Fertilizer Corp. issued a statement Friday in response to Gov. Mike Pence's announcement that he had order financial support for the Posey County plan withdrawn due to concerns about whether its Pakistan-based owners are doing enough at its overseas operations to keep the potentially explosive material from being used against U.S. troops.
The company says the Fatima Group has begun tracking its product and suspended sales of a chemical used in both fertilizer and explosives in some Pakistani provinces.
Midwest says it's still exploring options with local economic development officials. The company says the plant is expected to create 300 permanent jobs.
KNICKS-PACERS
Pacers not talking about changes, Hill's status
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana Pacers don't know whether George Hill will play Saturday night in Game 6 against New York.
It's not something they can worry about.
Instead, coach Frank Vogel is tweaking lineups and making adjustments just in case Hill can't pass his concussion tests before tip-off, and the Knicks are preparing as if Indiana will have its starting point guard back in the lineup.
NBA rules require players to feel symptom-free at rest and symptom-free when they are under exertion, too, before a team doctor can determine that the player is ready to return from a head injury.
With Hill, the Pacers took a 3-1 lead in the best-of-7 series. Without him Thursday night, the Knicks kept their playoff hopes alive with an 85-75 win at Madison Square Garden.
GREENCASTLE-DOWNTOWN FIRE
Fire damages buildings near C. Ind. city's square
GREENCASTLE, Ind. (AP) - Fire badly damaged buildings near the courthouse square in a central Indiana city.
The fire was reported about 7:15 a.m. Friday in downtown Greencastle in a building about a block from the Putnam County Courthouse. Flames spread and television helicopter video showed flames shooting through the roofs of neighboring older two-story brick structures.
Ted Newgent of the Greencastle Fire Department tells the Banner Graphic that crews were able to contain the fire after about three hours. The newspaper reports the damaged buildings included a pawn shop and a dentist office.
No injuries were immediately reported from the fire in the city about 40 miles west of Indianapolis.
CEMETERY'S UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Unkempt Lafayette cemetery faces uncertain future
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - A Lafayette cemetery that dates to at least the 1840s is filled with high weeds and local officials aren't sure about its fate.
Fairfield Township trustee Julie Roush says members of the association that oversaw Greenbush Cemetery have died, and its operating funds will soon be gone.
Roush tells the Journal & Courier that the association is expected to disband this summer and turn the cemetery over to the township.
She says the township will be strapped to come up with the about $1,500 needed each time the cemetery is mowed.
Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski says the cemetery is an important part of the city's history, with many people key to its development buried there.
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