The priest named in the lawsuit is among 12 priests the Lafayette diocese named in September 2018 as having "substantiated allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor" dating back decades.

The expansion will create space for the automotive manufacturer to assemble transmissions in-house and increase service part production.

Each school district will be on an extended spring break, which will end on March 31. On April 1, classes will resume using remote instruction, which will continue until at least April 3.

The company says the $158 million investment will help reduce costs and increase growth at the facility.

Since the plant began operation in 1989, its annual production has increased from 67,000 vehicles to a projected 410,000 vehicles in 2020.

A Lafayette officer will not face charges in the fatal shooting of a 39-year-old man who authorities say refused to drop a gun during a standoff with police.

The former sales manager at a Mercedes-Benz dealership in northern Indiana is suing the business, saying he was fired in retaliation for complaining about the owner's repeated use of racist language.

The planning work includes studying the potential of a trail running from the Logansport area, southwest through Lafayette to around Covington.

The facility produces off-highway gears to help power equipment including field sprayers for crops and aerial lifts.

Prosecutors say that before abandoning the girl in Lafayette, the couple legally changed her age to 22 and told her to tell anyone who asked that she was that old.