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A family dealing with the loss of a child in a crash Friday afternoon is now questioning why the 13-year-old was in the car in the first place. Justice Holified was killed when her middle school band teacher crashed on Harding Street near Interstate 70. Two other students suffered non-life threatening injuries. Indianapolis Public Schools said the teacher broke policy by driving the students in his personal vehicle. The teacher, Kyle Bieda, is in the hospital recovering from the crash.

A man who tried to steal a car Tuesday morning ended up crashing it into a bar on the east side of Indianapolis, police say. The suspect took the running car from an Admiral gas station while the owner was inside. The car's owner tried stopping the suspect, who lost control of the vehicle and drove it across the street into Zonie's Closet nightclub at 1446 E. Washington St. The suspect fled on foot after the crash and has not been caught.

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and its supports rallied Tuesday morning at the Indiana Statehouse against several legislative proposals that threaten the group’s public funding. The organization, the state’s leading abortion provider, says it spends the tax dollars it receives to offer low-cost reproductive health care, such as birth control and ovarian cancer screenings. Republican U.S. Congressman Mike Pence said taxpayer money should not go to groups that provide abortion. He said cutting the group’s funding would save taxpayers nearly $350 million per year.