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The banks of the Wabash River will be getting a facelift soon. The Wabash River Enhancement Corp. is looking at ways to preserve
the river. Plans could include trail development and improving water quality. Also on the drawing board: adding bridges for
walking and biking as well as a great lawn along the shoreline south of West Lafayette.

Police made a gruesome discovery in a Bartholomew County home after neighbors noticed mail piling up outside the house.
Investigators found Shaundra Hartner, 72, and Greg Thomas, 51, dead inside a home in Taylorsville. Police
recovered a gun at the scene and say they think the deaths may be the result of a murder-suicide.

Indianapolis firefighters battled a pair of fires Sunday night that displaced almost 20 residents. The first fire was reported just before 9 p.m. at Avalon Lake Apartments on the city’s northeast side. A male resident returned home from the store to find his apartment in flames; he had been heating grease on the stove. Three other apartments also were damaged, and nine residents of the apartment complex now are in temporary housing. The second fire call came in around 10:20 p.m. Sunday at a private residence on Indianapolis’ east side. A woman came back to her Dewey Street home after a Super Bowl party and found one of the bedrooms ablaze. Another woman who lives in the house says she left a candle burning and thinks one of her dogs knocked it over. The four adults and six children who live in the house were not home when the fire started, but two pit bulls died.

Madison County authorities are investigating a gruesome creek scene in the town of Ingalls: the bodies of as many as 15 dead
dogs, most of them decapitated. Police found the bodies in Fall Creek near County Road 750 West late Thursday. Most if not
all of the dogs appeared to be greyhounds, officials said.

Johnson County authorities say that a former Indianapolis youth volunteer already in jail awaiting trial on child molestation
charges tried to hire a hitman to kill witnesses, including teenagers and an infant. On Thursday, new charges were filed by
the Johnson County prosecutor against 30-year-old Jonathan Hartman, who was arrested in April 2009. The youth volunteer at
a Greenwood Salvation Army church allegedly had sexual relationships with three teenage girls over the course of several years.
Authorities now say that one of Hartman’s former fellow inmates reported that Hartman tried to hire him to kill witnesses
who could testify against him. Hartman will be in court next week to face the new charges. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.