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The Governor's Office announced Thursday that Gov. Mike Pence has picked Luke Britt as the state's new public access counselor. Britt has been as a litigation attorney for the Department of Child Services and previously worked at the state health department and for a Greenwood law firm. Britt's appointment begins Monday for a term ending in June 2015. The counselor reviews disputes from the public, government officials and journalists about the state's public records and open meetings laws.

Cortez Jones, 34, was arrested Wednesday night in connection with a murder at a west-side apartment complex. Jones is accused of shooting to death Anthony Kimmons, 39, at Aspen Village Apartments, near West 34th Street and Georgetown Road, on Tuesday afternoon. Reginald Fagan, 27, nearly drowned in a retention pond after he ran from the scene to escape Jones, police said. Jones was already wanted for parole violations.
 

A man was shot and killed at about 11 p.m. Wednesday in an apparent attempted robbery in the 4100 block of Mission Drive, near West 38th Street and High School Road. Police found the victim, described as a Latino male in his 40s, near his apartment in the Woodhaven apartment complex. Witnesses said the shooter left on foot.
 

A review by the website GasBuddy.com found Fort Wayne experienced the country's highest one-day average price hikes in gasoline this year and Indianapolis had the second-highest. Fort Wayne's spikes averaged 34 cents a gallon and Indianapolis averaged 32 cents. GasBuddy analyst Patrick DeHaan said the Great Lakes states have seen the largest price fluctuations, partly because of two refinery closures and a refinery fire in the region this year.

Two Indianapolis teenagers were arrested by Fishers police about 2 a.m. Wednesday after officers caught them allegedly breaking into vehicles. Jalen Williams, 18, and a 17-year-old juvenile were arrested on charges of theft and resisting law enforcement. Williams also faces a charge of unauthorized entry into a vehicle. The two were caught in the Weaver Woods North neighborhood at 141st Street and Harrison Parkway.

A 19-year-old man was shot Wednesday about 12:45 a.m. in a gas station parking lot at 34th Street and Keystone Avenue. Tracy Hollowell, who suffered a non-fatal injury to his side, told Indianapolis police he was shot during a carjacking, but a witness said Hollowell exchanged gunfire with another man after an argument. The man then drove off in Hollowell’s red pickup. Police recovered shell casings from two different guns and a stolen firearm that Hollowell admitted throwing behind a dumpster at the scene. Police tried apprehending the pickup driver a few blocks away, but he escaped on foot, leaving his gun and some stolen property behind.