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Fishers officials will open two new median U-turns—otherwise known as “Michigan lefts”—at 7 p.m. Monday at the intersection of 96th Street and Allisonville Road. The two new maneuvers will affect drivers traveling west on 96th Street who want to go south on Allisonville, and drivers traveling north on Allisonville who want to go west on 96th Street. Monday’s dual debut will complete the second phase of a revamp to the traffic flow at the busy intersection. The final phase and pavement work are expected to be complete in late May.

Detectives are investigating the death of Kanette Jackson, an Avon mother of four who had been missing since the middle of last week. Her body was found Saturday in a car parked in a lot outside Cardinal Elementary School in Brownsburg, according to Avon police. There were no signs of foul play, they said, but autopsy results still were pending.

A Greenwood woman died following a two-car crash in Morgan County Sunday night. Helen M. Sutton, 94, was driving east on Big Bend Road and failed to yield to southbound traffic at its intersection with State Road 37, according to Indiana State Police. A vehicle driven by Caitlyn Hinshaw, 21, of Middleton struck Sutton’s vehicle on the side. Emergency crews responded to the crash at about 7:30 p.m. Sutton suffered fatal injuries in the crash, which blocked State Road 37 for about two hours.

An explosion late Thursday afternoon at Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center sent four employees to a hospital. A spokesman said the explosion happened during a routine clean-up operation at the facility about 85 miles southwest of Indianapolis. The employees were released Thursday night. Crane is looking into the cause of the explosion.
 

A Greenwood man faces charges of child exploitation, possession of child pornography and reckless possession of paraphernalia. Robert McCarthy was arrested Thursday after police found child pornography showing children as young as 5 on his computer. He is being held in the Johnson County Jail on $100,000 bond.
 

A vehicle fire at Indianapolis International Airport on Friday morning forced the temporary closure of a parking garage. A 2002 Chevrolet Impala on the second floor of the garage caught fire at about 5:30 a.m., sending smoke throughout the structure. The garage reopened about an hour later after firefighters removed the car and an adjacent vehicle that suffered fire damage. The fire is under investigation.