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A Morgan County teacher and coach has been placed on paid leave while investigators look into accusations that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old female student in his home. Authorities in the Monrovia district are withholding the man’s name because no charges have been filed. School officials were notified of the alleged assault by the girl’s parents on Monday. According to the girl, the incident occurred May 29 after she was asked to babysit for the teacher. A former student said the teacher was disciplined last year for inappropriate behavior involving female students.
 

Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. is recalling about 131,300 pounds of ground beef that might be contaminated with E. coli. Some of the beef was distributed in Indiana. The products being recalled include Kroger-brand ground beef, Butcher's Brand beef and generic label beef, which were all produced Aug. 23. The Kroger beef was distributed in Tennessee and Indiana. The Butcher's beef in North and South Carolina and the generic beef in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. All the beef comes in 5-pound or 3-pound packages. E. coli can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration and kidney failure.
 

Indiana State Police have arrested a person of interest in the murders of five people in rural Franklin County, about 60 miles southeast of Indianapolis. The man, arrested during a traffic stop, was wearing a disguise. He is being held in the Ripley County jail on an unrelated charge for the armed robbery of a pharmacy in Osgood. Investigators think the murders were the result of a drug deal. The victims were identified as Angela Napier, 47, and her son Jacob Napier, 18; daughter Melissa Napier, 23; and estranged husband Roy Napier, 50. All four were shot in the head and found in one home. Victim Henry Smith, 43, who suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, was found dead in a home across the street. Melissa Napier's 4-year-old daughter was found Sunday wandering down the road from the crime scene.
 

Chris Tucker, who recently returned to stand-up stages, plays the Murat, Sept. 30. Details here. 

The Tarkington Theatre, the new stage at the Center for the Performing Arts, gets tested by the dancers of Pilobolus, Oct. 1. Details here.

Rare USO footage, appearances by Michael Feinstein and Bob Hope’s daughter Linda, and performers from Actors Theatre of Indiana are all part of “GI Jive: The Music & Entertainers of WWII,” kicking off a new exhibition at the Palladium’s Great American Songbook Gallery, Oct. 2. Details here. 

Piano duo Anderson & Roe, with guests from Dance Kaleidoscope, perform in the latest American Pianists Association Grand Encounters concert, Oct. 2 at Talbott Street. Details here.

Jon Stewart performs two shows at IU Auditorium, Sept. 30. Details here.

The Avett Brothers extend the season at the Lawn at White River State Park with an Oct. 1 concert. Details here.

Anthony Rapp, original cast star of Broadway’s “Rent,” speaks on love and loss in “Without You,” at the University of Indianapolis’ Ransburg Auditorium on Sept. 29. Details here.

Sandi Patty fans get a double hit at the Palladium. On Oct. 4, she’ll perform in concert with Michael Feinstein. On the 5th, she goes Broadway with a release concert for her new CD. Details on both shows here.

Sept. 30-Oct. 29
Theatre on the Square

Dismissed in its original Broadway production as a “Chorus Line” wannabee, “Working”—adapted from Studs Terkel’s oral history of the working lives of everyday people—has proven itself in many regional theater productions. It’s rarely the same show twice, though. In this iteration, the music from the original (including songs by “Wicked” composer Stephen Schwartz, James Taylor and others) has been supplemented with two originals by Lin-Manuel Miranda, of “In the Heights” fame. And the show, once featuring a sprawling cast of 17, has been tightened for a company of six. Details here. 

Sept. 29-Oct. 1

Ball State University Theatre, Muncie

Hoosier Cathy Day’s novel (acclaimed by me and many others) about life under and around the big top has been transformed into musical theater for this world premiere. Details here. 

Sept. 30

The Vogue

The annual, semi-masochistic art show/auction/demolition derby pits works of art against one another in a contest where the winner moves on and the loser, if not successfully auctioned off, is destroyed. The event is a blast—but not for the faint of artistic heart. Bring your checkbook and you can become an art collector and an art savior at the same time. Details here.

Sept. 30

Clowes Hall

This year, Clowes Hall introduces Clowes Off Center, an alternative series of shows that promise not-quite-mainstream entertainment. This one seems perfect for that rubric. It features improvised songs and sketches (for mature audiences) using puppet mastery from The Jim Henson Company. But this definitely isn’t “Muppet Show” humor. If you grooved on “Avenue Q,” this could be the variety show you’ve been, without realizing it, waiting for. Details here.

Residents of the Chadwick subdivision in Lebanon were evacuated Tuesday morning due to the rupture of a gas main just east of Elizaville and Elm Swamp roads. About 50 homes were affected in a two-block area after construction crews ruptured the line about 9:15 a.m. A shelter was being set up for displaced residents at the Lebanon Armory.
 

Purdue University has dropped plans to build a campus in New York City, it announced Monday. The university was one of 27 institutions from around the world that expressed interest in a request by Mayor Michael Bloomberg for a self-supporting applied-sciences facility and campus. The university said after evaluating the contract terms and reviewing financial commitments that the project's costs outweigh the benefits.
 

The status of league MVP Tamika Catchings is uncertain as the Indiana Fever prepare for Tuesday night’s 8 p.m. playoff game against the Atlanta Dream at Conseco Fieldhouse. The winner advances to the WNBA finals against the Minnesota Lynx. Catchings injured her foot Sunday in Atlanta in the closing minutes of the Dream’s 94-77 victory in Game 2 of the best-of-three series. Catchings averaged 15 points, 7 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game this season.