PLYMOUTH, IN - A 6- month-old baby died Monday after a crash in Marshall County.  Two vehicles collided at the intersection of U.S. 31 and 7B Road just before 2 p.m.  The coroner’s office says Kristoffer Springman was in a child restraint seat at the time of the accident.  An autospy is scheduled for today.

FORT WAYNE, IN - About 65 Dana workers got some good news – they were called back to work.  Dana’s Fort Wayne axle plant recalled the workers because one of its main customers resumed production Monday.  The Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio, started making Jeep Wranglers under the Chrysler Group LLC label.  Pay at the Fort Wayne plant averages $22.75 an hour.

WINONA LAKE, IN - Winona Lake has a new police officer but he’s no stranger to the area.  Brad Kellar began his new duties Sunday, replacing Paul Heaton who joined the Warsaw Police Department.  Kellar was dismissed as a Warsaw officer in November for allegations that he violated department protocol.  Winona Lake Town Marshal Paul Schmitt said he investigated the matter and recommended the town council hire Kellar.  Kellar was voted in by a 3-2 vote.  The concerns regarded the town’s budget.

HUNTINGTON, IN - A string of pharmacy robberies in Fort Wayne has police there looking for a male suspect and now police in Huntington are on alert.  A Walgreens pharmacy in Huntington was robbed Saturday of the painkiller Oxycontin and the same method used to rob at least seven other pharmacies was used.  The suspect hands the pharmacist a threatening note.  He's described as white, about 5-foot-11 to just over 6-feet tall, in his late 20s or early 30s, a medium build, reddish to light brown hair and usually facial hair in various stages of growth.

ELKHART, IN - VIM Recycling has until Dec. 31 to reduce the heaps of wood waste at the plant.  The EPA and VIM officils reached an agreement Monday.  The company is the target of at least two lawsuits and neighbors are challenging its air permit saying they'll take the matter to federal court.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - Leaders of the Democratic-controlled House and GOP-led Senate said Monday they were very close to a final budget deal.  The possible agreement would spend about $27.8 billion dollars over the two-year budget cycle.  The governor says lawmakers must enact either a new spending plan or a stopgap funding measure by midnight tonight, or much of the state government will shut down.  A vote is expected today.

PLYMOUTH, IN - It started as a routine traffic stop and ended with a Bourbon couple jailed for drug possession.  According to Plymouth Police, Jonathan Bollenbacher, 24, and his wife, Teah, 20, consented to a vehicle search by a police canine when they were stopped for a traffic violation.  The dog indicated the presence of drugs.  Marijuana and a methamphetamine lab were reportedly found inside.  Both were jailed for possession.

WARSAW, IN - About 60 protestors were outside the county courthouse in Warsaw today again protesting Winona Lake’s Hephzibah House.  This is at least the third time in a year that protestors have visibly accused the operator of the boarding school and his staff of abusing the teen girls who are sent there for rehabilitation.  Because Hephzibah House operates as a nonprofit religious school, it does not fall under Indiana laws requiring it to be monitored and regulated.  A task force has been formed for the purpose of changing Indiana’s laws.  For more information on that task force, go to www.formerhephzibahgirls.webs.com.

LAGRANGE COUNTY - A 3-year-old Wakarusa girl was among two people who drowned in unrelated accidents in Lagrange County lakes on Saturday.  Kennedy Stansbury was swimming in Cass Lake with family and friends when she was found in the water at the end of a pier.  She died an hour later at the hospital.  Just half an hour earlier, Kelly Smith, 41, of Wolcottville drowned in Dallas Lake as she was playing frisbee with the family dog on a sandbar.

WARSAW, IN - It was a short pursuit, but it was enough to land a Warsaw man in jail with some additional charges.  Martin Mulder Jr., 25, was wanted on a warrant for driving while suspended, so when he saw a police car behind him Sunday afternoon, he sped away.  Mulder was stopped just a couple of miles from where the pursuit began at SR 25 and Crystal Lake Road.  He’s now facing reckless driving and resisting arrest charges.

WARSAW, IN - A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms confirms that a Thursday raid on Tom Metzger’s home in Warsaw was related to a 2004 bombing.  Computers and other items were removed from Metzger’s home the same day two Illinois brothers were arrested for the actual bombing that injured a black city official in a suburb of Phoenix, Ariz.  Dennis and Daniel Mahon's ties to Metzger’s white supremacist group, the White Aryan Resistance, is being investigated.  The indictment of the brothers says the bombing was intended to "promote racial discord" on behalf of Metzger’s group, the White Aryan Resistance.

SYRACUSE, IN - Speed may have been factor in an ATV accident that hurt a Syracuse man early Saturday.  Brandon Richcreek, 21, was reportedly driving the vehicle at a high rate of speed on CR 650 North near Kalorama Road when he left the road and the ATV rolled several times.  Richcreek was not wearing a helmet and suffered a severe head laceration and cuts to his hands and legs.

WARSAW, IN - The awkward intersections of Argonne Road and Center Street and Parker and Center streets will soon be eliminated.  Work begins Monday, July 6, to realign Argonne, Parker and Center as one intersection.  During the first phast of work, much of Argonne Road will be closed and Center Street will be restricted to one lane in each direction.

INDIANAPOLIS - The grave of Depression-era gangster John Dillinger is seeing a surge of visitors days before the opening of a new film starring Johnny Depp as Dillinger.  Crown Hill Cemetery President Keith Norwalk says the hype about "Public Enemies," which opens in theaters Wednesday, is boosting the stream of visitors to Dillinger's grave.

WARSAW, IN - Private investigators have been called in to look into the cause of a fire that destroyed a vacant house.  The blaze was discovered around 11:40 p.m. Tuesday at 518 E. Main St.  Warsaw Fire Department’s federally trained canine, Bailey, worked the scene, which Friday was being investigated by agents of Kentucky-based Donan Forensics.  The home is owned by Douglas Kittrell and Teresa Rhodes and had been in the remodeling stages for quite some time.