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The National Beep Baseball Association is playing its 36th annual World Series this week at the Mary and John Geisse Soccer Complex in Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis. The 17 participating teams from the United States and Taiwan are made up of blind and visually impaired players. Beep baseball uses a ball that makes a beeping noise so it can be heard by players. To keep the game fair, every player wears a blindfold. The championship game will be played Aug. 6.
 

After an hour-long standoff, police shot and killed a man who was holding a hostage at gunpoint Monday afternoon in Bloomington. Robert North, 50, died shortly after he was shot in the neck. North held a woman in a headlock with a gun pointed at her head and walked her along Rogers Street. He continued to keep her at gunpoint near the pumps at a Sunoco gas station and refused to obey orders to put his gun down. The hostage was not injured.
 

A Madison County judge on Monday sentenced a man to 46 years in prison for exploiting a woman who was locked in a room by three people who lived off her Social Security checks. Louis Amalfitano, 21, was sentenced on the eight felony counts that a jury convicted him of in June. Prosecutors say Amalfitano, his father and girlfriend kept then-65-year-old Anna Turner of Anderson confined for months, beating her and forcing her to sleep on a urine-soaked mattress while they cashed her checks.