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The Anderson school board will vote Tuesday on a plan that’s dividing schools and the community. Board members have two options.
They can close one high school and merge all the students into a single building, or they can keep both high schools open
and combine them with middle schools. Supporters on both sides have created signs, banners and T-shirts, and started petition
drives to make their point. School board members say something has to be done to solve a budget crunch.

A former state representative avoided further jail time by pleading guilty on Wednesday to misrepresenting himself as a lawmaker.
Dennie Oxley Jr., last year’s Democratic candidate for Indiana lieutenant governor, was found intoxicated at a gas station
in June. He was not a state representative at the time, but tried to tell police he had immunity from arrest because he was
a lawmaker. He received a one-year suspended sentence.

Indiana State Police are trying to determine how a wrong-way driver got onto Interstate 70 Thursday morning. The driver died
after crashing into four other vehicles on the westbound side of the road near the McCarty Street ramp. One other person was
injured in the crash. The extent of those injuries has not been released. The highway was closed for hours, but is now open.
Fox 59 will have more at 4 p.m.

A suspect is in custody after authorities say he stabbed a Columbus, Ind., police officer during a confrontation over a property
dispute. Police say 38-year-old Carl Drucker II stabbed Officer Marc Hutcheson about 4:20 p.m. Tuesday. Drucker was shot in
the arm and escaped, but was found after a three-hour manhunt. The officer was treated and released from the hospital.