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A 3-year-old girl died in a hospital Wednesday night and police allege the mother’s boyfriend is responsible. Police found the girl unresponsive and covered with bruises from head to toe on Tuesday afternoon at a house on Long Wharf Drive on the east side of Indianapolis. Jose Cruz, 20, was initially charged with attempted murder. Detectives will meet with the prosecutor Thursday to amend his charge to murder.
 

Police are searching for an Elwood man who led police on a high-speed pursuit across Madison County Wednesday morning. Elwood police initiated a traffic stop just after 8 a.m., but the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Joshua Basey, fled the scene with two passengers in the vehicle. During the pursuit, the suspect hit a utility pole near Grandview Golf Course in Anderson, then fled into a wooded area. A female passenger was detained and taken to a hospital. The condition of the other passenger was unknown. Basey has an extensive criminal history that includes rape, theft and intimidation.
 

A Hancock County coroner says she'll resign from office after pleading guilty to driving drunk to a death scene but will still seek re-election this fall. Coroner Tamara Vangundy's resignation is effective at the end of the month. Vangundy said she wants to see if voters still want her for the position she was first elected to in 2008. Vangundy was sentenced Wednesday to a year on probation for driving to the scene of a teenager's suicide near New Palestine in May after drinking alcohol and taking a sleeping aid.
 

Police in Indianapolis say people searching for a dog found a shallow grave with human remains. The discovery was made early Wednesday morning in a wooded area in the 2800 block of North Gladstone Avenue on the city's east side. A police specialist was expected to investigate the site and work to identify the remains; a man who found the grave says the body appeared to be that of an older man, based on the clothing.

IndyGo’s Green Line Downtown/Airport express-service route will come to an end Sunday, officials announced Wednesday. IndyGo said a federal grant that funded the service has been exhausted. It recommended riders use Route 8, a 45-minute trip that follows Washington Street from downtown to the Indianapolis International Airport.

Police say a standoff in Lawrence ended Wednesday morning after a man took his own life. The man had been holed up for several hours inside a home on Leone Drive following a reported shooting that sent two people to the hospital. Police characterized the incident as a domestic-related aggravated assault that began in the 3700 block of North Sadlier Drive in Indianapolis. Authorities said a man was shot in the chest and a woman suffered serious injuries to her face in the assault. A witness followed the shooting suspect to Lawrence, where the suspect shot himself after police surrounded the house.