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A northern Indiana man who allegedly threatened to "kill as many people as he could" at an elementary school near his home was arrested by officers who later found 47 guns and ammunition hidden throughout his home.

An Indiana sheriff's office is investigating the alleged misconduct of a fired evangelical megachurch pastor with a teenage girl.

Officials in Indiana have lowered the state's death toll from Friday's tornado outbreak to 12 people from the previous 14 and are now concentrating on cleanup work. State police Sgt. Ray Poole said Sunday officials in southern Indiana's Scott County have told the state Department of Homeland Security that the county had one death rather than the three they first reported. Poole says he doesn't know the reasons for the confusion.

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.

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

An Indiana teenager who police say strangled his 10-year-old brother to satisfy an urge to kill that he likened to hunger pleaded guilty to murder Monday, and his defense attorney described him as remorseful.