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A controversial bill that would remove protections for Indiana’s wetlands is another step closer to becoming law. Crown Point residents welcomed home a police car that infamous gangster John Dillinger used in his jailbreak. And an exhibited dedicated to Bob Ross.

County health administrator Penny Caudill said the recent rise in COVID-19 case numbers prompted the decision.

In Monroe County, officials reported 54 new cases and no new deaths. County totals are now 11,196 cases and 166 deaths. The county’s positivity rate is at 1.1%, up from 1% Thursday. Area hospitalizations are at 31.

Affordable housing experts and advocates say three-quarters of extremely low-income renters in Indiana are spending 50 percent or more of their income on housing.

An Indiana University official says mandating COVID-19 vaccines for students makes “perfect sense,” but university leaders haven’t decided whether it will become a requirement.

The Indiana Department of Child Services hotline received on average about 600 calls each business day in 2020, the agency said, compared with about 700 calls on average every business day in 2018 and 2019.

Four members of IU’s Board of Trustees have been authorized to begin negotiating and they expect to name the new president later this month. McRobbie announced in August that he planned to step down.

According to Pence’s agent, David Vigliano, “all major publishers” competed for the book, and the deal was worth “well into seven figures.”

House Bill 1191 would now allow universities to put policies in place to make their buildings greener, but cities still wouldn’t be able to do so.

Legislation that would eliminate Indiana’s licenses to carry a handgun in public has been shot down by Senate Republicans.