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The stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair earlier this month has claimed the life of yet another person, bringing the death toll to seven.

The Indiana State Fair reopened as officials investigated how a concert stage collapsed, killing five and injuring dozens.

Four people are dead and a dozen were injured after a stage collapsed during a storm at the Indiana State Fair, where the country group Sugarland was set to perform.
The Indianapolis Star and WTHR reports that strong winds caused the stage rigging for the outdoor concert to collapse at the fairgrounds Saturday night in Indianapolis. Fans were trapped and injured in the incident shortly before 9 p.m. It happened before the band had taken the stage.
Details on the conditions of those injured were not immediately known.

An Indiana sheriff says a 4-year-old boy who was fatally shot while out fishing with his father was struck in the head. Wells County Sheriff Monte Fisher told The Associated Press on Sunday that Jacob Michuda was shot in the head late Friday night while he and his father were fishing from a pier at a pond outside Ossian.

The friend who was with an Indiana University co-ed before she vanished has no memory of their last moments together, his lawyer said.

Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., said Sunday he won't run for president because of family concerns, narrowing the field but making a wide-open race even hazier....

An Indiana woman shot her three children and set the family's house on fire before turning the gun on herself, police said.

Three southern Indiana children and a mother found dead inside their partially burned house had all been shot in the head, police said Saturday, with an internet rant tied to the woman drawing investigators' attention.

The kickoff of the 2012 race for the White House might just happen Tuesday in this small midwestern town known as the "city of firsts," where Old Ben, a two-ton bull, still gets bragging rights as the world's biggest stuffed steer.

MTV's "Teen Mom" Amber Portwood faces felony domestic violence charges in her Indiana hometown because of incidents on her reality TV show -- where she is seen shoving, punching, slapping and choking her boyfriend, a police spokesman said.