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Two teenagers driving stolen cars led police on a chase along U.S. 40 in Hancock County early Monday. The pursuit started in Greenfield near the Washington Village apartments, when police noticed five teenagers in two stolen cars. After a 4-mile pursuit, the drivers crashed the cars near Washington Street and German Church Road. The Hancock County Sheriff's Office says the youths ranged in age from 15 to 17. None had a driver’s license and two of the teens were on probation wearing ankle monitors. One teenager was arrested and two others were taken to the hospital to be checked out.

Crews are working to repair a large water main break in Speedway. About 2 a.m. Monday, a Speedway police officer on patrol came across the heavily flooded Speedway Drive, near the intersection of Crawfordsville Road and Lynhurst Drive. Crews have blocked off the street from Whitcomb Avenue to Beeler Avenue as they work to repair the water main. The road will remain closed until the main is fixed.

Bloomington Hospital hopes to be bedbug-free by the end of Monday after heath officials discovered the tiny blood suckers in two rooms over the weekend. Hospital workers are using heaters to kill the insects and their eggs. They’re also making sure patients leaving the hospital don’t take the bugs home—visually inspecting patients, giving them a shower and clean gown before leaving, and heating their belongings to a temperature that would destroy any lingering bedbugs. For now, the hospital is not restricting visitors.

A desk clerk at the Plainfield Budget Inn said an armed man tried to rob the hotel Friday morning at about 4 a.m. The clerk told the man there was no cash in the drawer because the hotel only accepts credit cards during overnight hours. Instead, the man grabbed the clerk’s purse from behind the counter and fled the scene in a red vehicle, possibly a Pontiac Grand Am or Oldsmobile Alero.

A woman who had her purse snatched outside a Walgreen’s store Friday morning in Beech Grove got it back when a Good Samaritan chased down the thief. The woman was on her way out of the store when a man grabbed her purse and ran to a van across the street. The woman yelled and sounded her car’s alarm, getting the attention of a Marsh Supermarkets employee who chased after the suspect, causing him to drop the purse. The snatcher and another man in the van got away.

Police suspect a man who fell to his death from a moving car early Friday morning on Interstate 465 on the east side of Indianapolis may have been pushed out of the vehicle. A truck driver who witnessed the incident at about 1:30 a.m. told police he saw the passenger-side door of a maroon Chevrolet Caprice open and a man fall out onto the highway. The car was moving about 60-65 mph. The victim, who is yet to be identified, was breathing when medics arrived, but later died from massive injuries. Police are searching for the vehicle and the driver.