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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is spending all day Monday traveling to areas of the state hit hardest by Sunday’s storms. Pence planned to fly by helicopter Monday morning to Kokomo, joining Mayor Greg Goodnight and U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita in surveying damage. Pence will then fly to Logansport and Lafayette in northern Indiana, before heading to the southwestern Indiana city of Washington. Officials are just beginning to assess whether the damage is severe enough to request federal disaster assistance.
 

More than 68,000 homes and businesses in mostly northern and central Indiana remained without power Monday morning in the wake of Sunday’s tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. reported 4,900 customers without power. Duke Energy Corp. reported 25,000 customers still in the dark, with 12,000 of those in Tippecanoe County and another 7,000 in hard-hit Howard County.
 

National Weather Service officials are visiting Lebanon on Monday to examine damage caused by a reported tornado. Lebanon police said high winds damaged 26 homes and eight businesses, including three warehouses and a Starbucks. Seven homes were deemed uninhabitable. Despite the damage, only two people were hurt, and that occurred when the parked semi they were in blew over.   
 

A former FBI explosives expert was sentenced on Thursday to roughly 3-1/2 years in prison for possessing and disclosing secret information, including intelligence he gave to The Associated Press for a story about a U.S. operation in Yemen. Donald Sachtleben, 55, of Carmel, pleaded guilty to one count of disclosing and one count of possessing classified information. Sachtleben also was sentenced to an additional eight years in prison in an unrelated child pornography case.
 

The final report on the July 27 church-bus crash on the north side of Indianapolis cites unsafe speed as the primary reason for the accident and says the bus had no mechanical defects. Three people were killed: youth pastor Chad Phelps, his pregnant wife, Courtney, and church member Tonya Weindorf. Dennis Maurer, the 68-year-old driver, told investigators the brakes on the bus failed as he exited Interstate 465 onto Keystone Avenue. A Marion County prosecutor's office spokeswoman said Friday that no decision has been made on whether the driver will face criminal charges.
 

A 29-year-old Indianapolis man jumped from his second-floor balcony to escape a fire in his apartment early Friday morning. Fire crews found heavy smoke and flames when they arrived at Barrington Estates, near 86th Street and Ditch Road, shortly before 3:30 a.m. A 25-year-old woman was rescued from her balcony with a ladder. Two other tenants escaped without injury. A cause is being investigated.