Carmel police arrested three Indianapolis teenagers accused of stealing a vehicle early Thursday morning. Two of the teens were taken into custody after they were found in a stolen truck near Main Street and Keystone Avenue shortly after 4 a.m. The other suspect was found hiding behind a dumpster at the McDonald’s at Keystone and Carmel Drive. James Lomonn Moore, 19, and William Devante Boone, 18, were arrested on theft charges. A 17-year-old faces theft charges and an additional charge for possession of a handgun without a license.
 

A family of nine escaped a fire early Thursday morning on the northeast side of Indianapolis. Chris and Melanie Woolard and seven children ages 6 months to 11 years were awakened by a loud noise at about 1 a.m. and found their house in the 7700 block of Chatham Court North Drive on fire. Investigators say the fire was likely started by a heat pump and caused about $20,000 in damage.
 

The Quality Inn and Suites in the 5000 block of Lafayette Road was robbed at gunpoint by a masked man at about 4:45 a.m. Thursday, Indianapolis police say. A front desk worker said the man forced her to give him $200 from a register and her mobile phone. Investigators say camera footage shows the suspect driving away northbound on Lafayette Road in a compact car.
 

A water-main break is causing big problems at Ball State University in Muncie. Four major buildings, including the administration building, are expected to be without water for the rest of the day while repairs are being made. Offices will remain open and classes will continue as scheduled, but the bathrooms in the buildings will be closed.
 

An Indianapolis mother was arrested on a charge of neglect of a dependent Tuesday night after neighbors saw her 3-year-old son wandering alone along a street on the southwest side. Police were called to the 4600 block of West Troy Avenue after two women found the boy near their apartment building. The boy was “wet and trembling” and wore no shoes or coat, the report said. Roial Harris said she left her son asleep while she went to the Laundromat. The child was placed in the custody of Harris’ parents.
 

A man said he believes he passed out before crashing his pickup truck through the side of a home near 146th Street and Allisonville Road in Fishers. Jerry Mooneyhan, 57, was traveling eastbound on 146th Street at about 4 a.m. Wednesday when he became dizzy and failed to complete the turn before ramming into a bedroom in the house. The only person in the home at the time was sleeping in another bedroom. The resident and Mooneyhan were uninjured.
 

A Wayne Township firefighter was hospitalized Tuesday morning after ice flew off a pickup truck and knocked out the windshield of the fire truck he was driving. The fire truck was traveling westbound on 21st Street, just east of Girl’s School Road about 10 a.m., prior to the incident. Three other firefighters in the truck were not injured. The pickup truck did not stop. Officials are reviewing camera footage to see if they can track down the vehicle.

Two armed men robbed the Indiana Members Credit Union at 95 S. Mitthoeffer Road in Indianapolis at about noon Monday. The suspects escaped in a blue pickup that was found about an hour later in a nearby apartment complex. Police are investigating.

Officials in the Carmel-Clay Schools district have whittled the list of superintendent candidates to three. The candidates, announced at a board meeting Monday, are Eric Ban, former principal at Crown Point High School; Bruce Hibbard, superintendent of New Albany-Floyd County Schools in southern Indiana; and Mary Ann Dewan, who has held high-ranking positions in the Wayne Township district. Public forums are set for this week, and the school board hopes to make a decision in the next month.

Two people died and another was in critical condition after a car crashed into a building on the far-east side early Sunday morning. Tiffany McGinnis, 27, of Indianapolis was arrested on preliminary charges of driving while intoxicated. Police say she drove a Chevrolet Impala into the Univar USA Inc. building at 7425 E. 30th St., just before 3:30 a.m.

Matthew Graves, a coach for the Butler University men's basketball team for more than a decade, is leaving the program to become head coach at the University of South Alabama, sources say. Graves, a former Butler player, was an assistant coach for nine years before being named associate head coach in 2010. South Alabama went 17-13 this season and finished second in the Sun Belt Conference. Its coach, Ronnie Arrow, retired earlier this season.

A snowstorm that left 7.2 inches of snow in Indianapolis on Sunday set a weather record for the date. The National Weather Service said the snowfall was the most that has fallen in the city on March 24 since 1912, when it got 5.8 inches. While it isn't all that rare for Indiana to get snow in March, it is unusual to get so much.
 

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is reminding motorists that all of its license branches will be closed March 29 in observance of Good Friday. Most license branches will resume normal business hours the following day.
 

Before the Indiana Pacers tip off against the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night, the team’s star center will pass out free tickets to upcoming games to every blood donor. The Roy Hibbert Blood & Bone Marrow Drive runs until 3 p.m. at Banker’s Life Fieldhouse. Hibbert hopes to attract at least 300 donors.
 

A man robbed a convenience store south of Greenwood early Friday morning, then forced a customer to drive to Indianapolis at gunpoint. New Whiteland police said the gunman stole less than $1,000 from the Shell/Circle K gas station at U.S. 31 and Tracy Road during the 1 a.m. holdup. He released his hostage unharmed near the Interstate 70 and Harding Street interchange. Police have clear video footage of the suspect.
 

Indianapolis police say a dead man found Wednesday afternoon in a vacant apartment on the city’s far-east side had been shot to death. The victim, discovered in the 4000 block of Stratford Court, near Post Road and 42nd Street, was in his 20s or 30s.
 

A person was killed Thursday morning in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 465 on the south side of Indianapolis, near Mann Road. As of 10:30 a.m., a couple of hours after the crash, two westbound lanes were still closed.
 

Indiana State Police detectives believe they can finally close a 30-year-old cold case involving a murder at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Scottsburg resident Paul Stucker, 52, was arrested Tuesday in Gretna, La., in connection with the slaying of Johnny Hodge, 34, inside a cell at the prison in 1983. A tip led police to Gretna and to Stucker. U.S. Marshals and the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force assisted with the investigation. Stucker is awaiting extradition from Louisiana to Indiana.

Indianapolis police nabbed a man wanted on a federal warrant on Wednesday morning after a short chase on the city's northwest side. The chase began around 2:30 a.m. in the 4600 block of Kessler Boulevard North Drive, as police attempted to pull over a speeding driver. The driver attempted to escape, leading police on a short chase through the neighborhood until the maroon vehicle stopped in the 3500 block of West 52nd Street. Police apprehended the 36-year-old man after he tried to flee on foot, and discovered that he was wanted on a federal warrant.

President Obama has filled out his brackets for the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and Indiana University is his pick to go all the way. ESPN revealed Wednesday that Obama's Final Four also includes Louisville, Ohio State and Florida. The president has only picked the winner once in his previous years in office, with North Carolina taking the title in 2009. His bracket generally favors Big 10 teams for the upcoming tournament, but, he said, "I think this is Indiana's year."

Students returned to classes Wednesday at IUPUI following a four-hour lockdown on Tuesday afternoon after a student reported seeing a man with a gun in a campus parking lot at about 12:30 p.m. School officials released a text alert around 12:55 p.m. urging students, faculty and staff to seek shelter as police searched for the suspect, who was reportedly wearing a long brown coat. IUPUI Police Capt. Bill Abston said authorities received word of two subsequent sightings but did not find anyone matching the description during their search. Some students said there was some confusion about what the lockdown entailed and whether they could leave buildings. Others credited the university and police with handling the situation quickly.

A man convicted in a botched Indianapolis home robbery that left two women and two children dead has been arrested after failing to report from work-release detail. Indianapolis police arrested 30-year-old Tommy Warren on Monday afternoon after finding him hiding in a north-side home. Warren was sentenced in 2010 to 10 years in prison on a conspiracy conviction for his role in the January 2008 Hovey Street killings of Andrea Yarrell and Gina Hunt, both 24, and their children, 5-month-old Charlii Daye-Yarrell and 23-month-old Jordan Hunt. Four other men were sentenced in the crime.

The Indianapolis Department of Public Works launched an online tool Tuesday that will allow the public to report, locate and check the status of potholes across the city. Indy’s Pothole Viewer shows all pothole repair requests received by the city on a map. Red dots indicate requests that are still being serviced, and green dots indicate potholes that have been repaired. So far in March, DPW has repaired 929 potholes.

A 14-year-old boy was arrested early Tuesday morning after he allegedly stole a car and led police on a chase in Carmel. Police say the boy took an unlocked and running Hyundai Sonata parked in the 1200 block of Golfview Drive at about 6 a.m. Police saw the car near Rangeline Road and 126th Street and gave chase. The suspect drove into a dead-end road and flipped the vehicle onto its side. He fled on foot but was caught with help from a police dog.

Four teams from Indiana received bids to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Indiana University earned the top seed in the East Region and will play Friday afternoon in Dayton, Ohio, against the winner of a play-in game between LIU Brooklyn and James Madison University. No. 6 seed Butler University will play Bucknell University on Thursday in Lexington, Ky., at 12:40 p.m. The University of Notre Dame, seeded seventh, faces Iowa State University in Dayton on Friday. And No. 14 Valparaiso University will play Michigan State University in Auburn Hills, Mich., on Thursday.