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A passenger van crowded with 24 people was a "death trap," an investigator said Friday, the morning after the van blew out a tire and rolled over on Interstate 69, killing one and injuring 23 others.

Testimony continues Friday in the murder trial of Christopher Compton, accused of starting a 2014 fire that a killed three people.

A few showers are possible tonight and Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

The reunion committee for Central High School Class of 1955, recently gathered at the Roca Bar to finalize plans for their 60th reunion. The reunion will be Oct. 2-3.

Democratic mayoral candidate Gail Riecken stayed on the attack during a forum Thursday night, assailing incumbent Republican Lloyd Winnecke's handling of city finances, while Winnecke defended his record and called Riecken's claims misleading or wrong.

Defense attorney Scott Danks said Bobby John Handegard has witnesses who will testify he was at home with them about 9:15 p.m. on July 19, the moment investigators have accused him of participating in the fatal shooting of Shane Breedlove.

Six members of an Owensboro, Kentucky, family were injured Thursday morning when their SUV overturned just off Interstate 64 in rural White County, Illinois.

A Southern Illinois jury has found a former Winchester, Kentucky, man guilty of robbing a Saline County bank last December.

Indiana State Police are reporting a rollover accident on Interstate 69's southbound lanes in Gibson County just north of the Fort Branch/Mackey exit.

The trial date has been called off for Kendra Tooley, the Posey County, Indiana woman accused of helping her boyfriend confine and sexually assault a woman in a mobile home last year.