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Indiana State Police are looking for a motorist who fled after exchanging gunfire with a trooper following a traffic stop in Seymour. Authorities said John Michael Fish, 35, got out of his vehicle and shot at an officer after he was pulled over on Sandy Creek Drive. The trooper returned fire, but no one was injured. Officials from three different agencies launched a manhunt but came up empty. Police said Fish’s last known address is in Indianapolis, so he may be headed there.

A record 1,787 foster children were adopted in 2011, the Indiana Department of Child Services said Tuesday. The state agency stepped up its efforts to reunite children with their families or find them new homes. Teams focused on hard-to-place children who typically are older, in sibling groups or have special needs. More than a third of the adoptions—598—occurred in the last two months of the year after several judges scheduled special court dates to accelerate the process. DCS said about 300 foster children still need permanent homes.

Country duo Sugarland denies any wrongdoing in the stage collapse that killed seven people and injured dozens of others before the band’s scheduled Aug. 13 Indiana State Fair concert. In court documents filed Monday, the group called the tragedy “a true accident or Act of God” and said the victims “knowingly and voluntarily assumed and/or incurred the risk of injury to themselves." Sugarland, a defendant in a class-action lawsuit seeking damages in the collapse, blamed others for not evacuating the grandstands despite deteriorating weather. But Indiana State Fair Commission chief Cindy Hoye has testified that the band twice refused to delay the concert.