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B2 FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2012 2nd THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR INDYSTAR.COM Metro on the go 07.20.12 INDIANAPOLIS ARTSGARDEN: Protocol Live will play a one-hour show of soul and jazz. Washington and Illinois streets. Info: www.indyarts.orgartsgarden.aspx WEATHER WATCH: Central Indiana could see some relief from the heat, but isolated strong storms still are possible. Find out when and where. NEWS ri 1 PMahaniR'iggin i MARION COUNTY Greenfield man held in robbery A Greenfield man is in custody after the robbery of a bank branch in a Kroger store in Lawrence, police said.

The robbery was reported around 1 p.m. Wednesday at Old National Bank inside the store at 11101 Pendleton Pike. Police arrested Rick 21, Indianapolis, fled when deputies arrived at the Hart's Landing Apartment Complex on East 44th Street, deputies said. Deputies chased him to another resident's apartment, where Amey fired a handgun several times from inside, authorities said. He then left the apartment but was captured when he dropped his gun, they said.

After a search of Amey's pockets, he was preliminarily charged with possession of cocaine, pointing a firearm, resisting law enforcement, possession of marijuana, criminal recklessness and carrying a handgun without a license, authorities said. Amey was being held in the Marion County Jail, with bail set at $300,000. Suspected illegal immigrants held Authorities say 24 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested in the Indianapolis area after a three-day raid that ended Monday. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal Operations teams arrested 23 men and one woman from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Venezuela. Seventeen had prior convictions for felony and misdemeanor crimes, including drug possession, resisting arrest and drunken driving, according to the U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE spokeswoman Gail Montenegro said they will be placed in deporta- "which directly impact the well-being of Indianapolis residents." The vetoed ordinance would have required the city to revoke a hotel's license if it engaged in "blacklisting" of a contract service provider's workers by agreeing not to consider those workers for in-house jobs. Ballard's veto statement said blacklisting already was illegal, that the council had heard insufficient evidence that the practice was occurring, and that the ordinance would interfere "unreasonably" with businesses' operations. The $50,000 stricken from the fiscal ordinance was justified by the council as reimbursement for the outgoing Republican-led council's spending of council money last year to redraw precinct lines, a mayoral responsibility. Democrats planned to use the money to pay for redisricting.

Ballard, who signed off on a redistricting plan passed by council Republicans last year, has said a new round of redistricting is unnecessary. Coroner: Cocaine led to man's death A man who was Tasered by police on May 1 died of sudden cardiac arrest from acute cocaine intoxication not from being Tased, a report from the Marion County coroner revealed Thursday. Marion County Sheriff's Department deputies Tased the man, Anton Butler, 28, Indianapolis, after he fled in the 3100 block of North Baltimore Avenue, where he was dealing drugs, police said. After he was ar MUNCIE STAR PRESS Some fairgoers said they thought the Obama punching bag showed disrespect to the commander in chief. GOP pulls punching bag from fair tent Bag with likeness of Obama offended some fairgoers at Muncie, party says Hersley, 51, later that day in Greenfield.

A bank clerk told police that Hersley gave him a note say Rick Hersley ing, "I am armed. Give me all the money." The clerk said the suspect told him to put money in a plastic bag. Hersley then walked out of the store and sped away in an old white car, a Lawrence Police Department report said. Hersley is being held in the Marion County Jail, with bail set at $40,000. Man is arrested after shots fired A man was arrested Monday after firing several shots in an apartment complex while being chased by authorities, the Marion County Sheriff's said Thursday.

Jeffrey Jeffrey Amey Amey tion proceedings in federal immigration court. Three had been ordered to leave the U.S. but failed to do so, and three others illegally re-entered the country after deportation. The majority of the arrests were made in Indianapolis. Others were in Franklin and Plainfield.

Flood wall's topic for Aug. 23 event The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released details for an Aug. 23 public comment hearing for its study of a Northside flood protection plan, which has attracted controversy because it would not protect Rocky Ripple. The meeting will be at Meridian Street United Methodist Church, 5500 North Meridian St.

From 5 to 6:45 p.m., the corps will have an open house providing information about its recently released draft supplemental environmental impact statement. It recommends keeping a route for a planned flood wall that would run between Westfield Boulevard and the Central Canal, from Capitol Avenue southwest to Butler University's campus. At 7 p.m., the corps will start a public comment session, with Louisville District Commander Col. Luke Leonard leading the meeting. The corps is accepting comments on the new report through Aug.

31. For more information, go to http:bit.lyindynorth. Ballard vetoes budget items Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard on Thursday vetoed a proposal concerning alleged "blacklisting" of hotel workers and used his line-item veto to strike a $50,000 budget transfer from a broader spending ordinance. The Democrat-majority City-County Council passed both measures Monday and submitted them to the Republican mayor's office Thursday morning. A statement issued by Council President Maggie Lewis expressed disappointment that Ballard would veto proposals AIR DUCT CLEANING 1 WEEK ONLY! Muncie Star Press MUNCIE, Ind.

A controversial punching bag featuring the likeness of President Barack Obama had been removed by Thursday night from the Republican Party tent at the Delaware County Fair. "It's gone. It won't be there tonight," Delaware County GOP spokesman Tom Bennington said. The punching bag, featuring a caricature of Obama as a boxer, complete with a black eye, drew attention from some fairgoers earlier in the week. But criticism reached a head Wednesday evening when visitors, including some there for Democrat Night at the fair and at least one Republican, raised concerns with Republicans staffing the GOP tent.

Bennington said the punching bag would not be displayed at Thursday's Republican Night at the fair. "It was what I consider mildly offensive," said Bennington, a former Delaware County commissioner and president of the Muncie Sanitary District Board. Bennington returned a call about the punching bag from The Star Press on Thursday. The Star Press also left a message for Will Statom, local GOP chairman. Bennington said he Offer includes: Unlimited vents, 1 return and a main trunk line.

Plus a complete AC system inspection. NO TRAVEL CHARGE FREE CRAWLSPACE INSPECTION Check All Lines for Leaks Inspect Insulation Inspect for Water Damage Call: 8:00 pm Monday -Saturday offer ends 7301 2 3 STATE ROUNDUP INDYAIRCARE rested, Butler lost consciousness. He was transported to IU Health Methodist Hospital, where he Anton Butler died. Butler was released from prison last October and had multiple previous arrests, police said. Star reports his 67-year-old mother under a deal with prosecutors.

Kokomo police arrested 50-year-old Ronald Calvert on murder charges in November after finding Joyce Philapy dead on the floor of a home they shared. The Kokomo Tribune reported that Calvert is to appear in a Howard County court today for a hearing on whether a judge will accept the plea agreement to the murder charge. Calvert's defense attorney sought a psychiatric evaluation for him in January. Mental evaluations by two doctors determined Calvert was competent to stand trial. thought the punching bag was placed outside the tent earlier in the week by "party leadership, although I'm not sure about that." Wednesday evening, shortly after a Star Press reporter posted a picture of the punching bag on Twitter, Brad Oliver, a Republican candidate for Indiana House District 34, issued a statement saying he and his supporters had left the fairgrounds after his request to have the punching bag removed was "overruled." "My contention is that it is not racial," Bennington said.

"Obama is somebody we want to defeat. It was all meant in fun. But in reality, I considered it a little offensive myself. It's taken down. It was taken down five minutes after the discussion.

"I'm retired military, and I respect the commander in chief," he added. "From that perspective, it was offensive, and we asked to take it down, and it was taken down. A couple of us approached and said, 'That thing has to and Will agreed." The punching bag was up at various times Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. "We had a lot of people having a good time with it," Bennington said. "We had a couple who didn't like it." threw a dirty carpet atop her body.

Smith's 13-year-old son saw authorities taking out her body. The ruling suggests the coroner's office could have handled the situation better. "Evidence reflects that the Coroner's Office had other resources at its disposal that could have been employed to transport Smith's remains in a more dignified manner," the court ruling said. The court's decision overturns a previous ruling by a Marion County judge. Follow Star reporter Michael Boren at Twitter.comborenmc or call him at (317) 444-6138.

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Atkins was the girlfriend of the injured girls' father and was driving the children to their grandmother's home in LaPorte before going to work, Sosinski said. The driver of the SUV was in critical condition at St. Anthony Hospital in Michigan City, Sosinski said. Man pleads guilty, ill in beating death KOKOMO A north-central Indiana man agreed to plead guilty but mentally ill in the beating death of By Michael Boren michael.borenindystar.com The family of a 750-pound woman whose body was covered with a dirty carpet and loaded into a flatbed wrecker can sue the Marion County coroner's office, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The coroner's office was criticized in May 2009 for asking a tow truck company to transport the body of Teresa Smith.

Authorities carried Smith out on a mattress through an apartment complex courtyard and initially covered her with a sheet because no body bags would fit. After they reached the truck, they Pastor backed over at food bank FORT WAYNE Police say a northeastern Indiana pastor died after his wife backed their van over him while he was directing her at a Fort Wayne food bank. Police said James Hau-gen, Columbia City, was fatally injured Thursday at the Community Harvest Food Bank in Fort Wayne. WANE-TV said Haugen was a pastor at Living Waters Lutheran Church in Wolf Lake about 25 miles northwest of Fort Wayne. Police said food bank employees used a forklift to lift the car off Haugen, but he died at a hospital.

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