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Two Warren Central High School Swim coaches face allegations of sexual relationships with two girls on the team. Police say
they’ve recovered text messages that confirm the relationships. Police say Seth Sexton, 23, began having a relationship with
a 16-year-old swimmer in October. Police say Matthew Brown had sex with a 17-year-old swimmer four times. Warren Central High
School administrators released a statement saying both assistants have resigned. Brown had his initial hearing early Wednesday
morning and is out on $5,000 bond. A warrant for Sexton has been issued.

Anderson police admit they questioned and released a man just minutes before he drove into the path of a school bus Tuesday
morning. Shane Owens is in critical condition. None of the children on the bus were hurt. Officers say they found Owens asleep
behind the wheel of his car, gave him a field sobriety test and asked him a few questions, but eventually let him go. A records
check performed after the crash revealed that Owens has a suspended driver’s license and a possible outstanding warrant in
Henry County. Department policy leaves it up to the discretion of officers whether to run records checks.

Hoosier churches and the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Red Cross are working on plans to send help to Haiti after Tuesday’s
devastating earthquake. The organizations are starting to collect money while they try to gauge the full impact of the quake.
Several area churches who have missionaries serving in Haiti say they’re still waiting to hear if their members are OK. The
number of dead from the quake is expected to run into the thousands. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.

Dr. Beth Summers, a pediatric hospitalist, joined Hendricks Regional Health on Jan. 4. She is the Danville-based
hospital’s eighth hospitalist, which is a doctor whose entire practice is focused on patients staying at the hospital. Summers
earned her medical degree at Case Western Reserve University and completed a residency in pediatrics at Riley Hospital for
Children in Indianapolis.

Warsaw-based Zimmer Holdings Inc. named Jeffrey Paulsen its president
of global businesses. He will oversee sales of Zimmer’s spine, dental, trauma and orthopaedic surgical products in countries
outside the United States. Paulsen most recently served as chief operating officer for Detroit-based MPS Group Inc., a facilities
management firm. Before that, he worked at Michigan-based Stryker Corp., a Zimmer rival.

Hill-Rom Holdings Inc.
has hired John J. Greisch to replace retiring CEO Peter Soderberg. Greisch comes to the Batesville-based
hospital bed maker from Baxter International Inc., a global health care products company based in Deerfield,
Ill.

Roche Diagnostics Corp. named a new CEO Tuesday for its North American operations, which are headquartered
in Indianapolis. Jack Phillips, currently head of commercial operations for North America and Japan at Roche subsidiary Ventana
Medical Systems, takes the reins from Michael Tillmann, who resigned on Friday. Tillmann had been in the job 18 months, but
Roche continued to lose market share in its diabetes business. Phillips is the third North American CEO for Roche Diagnostics
in less than two years.

Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar requested Indiana’s attorney general to conduct
a legal analysis of the Senate health insurance proposal, according to the Associated Press. Attorney General Greg Zoeller
will examine the constitutionality of parts of the federal health care bill, including the so-called Nebraska compromise that
would give Nebraska funding for expanded Medicaid obligations. Indiana law gives the attorney general authority to review
proposed federal legislation for any of the state’s U.S. senators or representatives. Zoeller said he’ll provide a report
to Indiana’s congressional delegation by the time Congress starts House-Senate conference committee negotiations.

The long-term impact of health care reform is uncertain, but many analysts are expecting big health insurers like Indianapolis-based
WellPoint Inc. to benefit in 2010, according to the Associated Press. WellPoint, which insures more Americans
than any of its peers, has seen its stock price surge 10 percent in 2010. "As the health care reform
debate diminishes, we believe investors will continue their recent return to managed care stocks
in the first half of 2010 with a large-cap bias," Thomas Carroll, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus
& Co., told investors.

Witham Health Services wants Boone County officials
to support a $35 million bond issue that the Lebanon-based hospital said could save it millions in interest
payments. Witham wants to use about $21 million to refinance a 95,000-square-foot medical office building in Lebanon
that it opened in September. Interest rates on bonds are lower now than when Witham began that project in mid-2007. Witham
would use the rest of the money, about $15 million, to purchase land in the Anson development near Zionsville, on which Witham
opened a free-standing emergency room in October. The 43,000-square-foot structure features cutting-edge imaging equipment
for open-sided magnetic-resonance imaging exams and high-resolution CT scans. It also includes office space for family and
specialist physicians.

The City of Evansville hired Maryland-based Meritain Health to manage its self-funded insurance
plan. The new city health plan will feature the Welborn Health Plan’s Dual Option Product, which gives members access
to both Deaconess and St. Mary’s hospitals, instead of only one as before. Meritain Health administers health plans
for more than 80,000 members in the greater Evansville tri-state area.