Gov. Eric Holcomb has directed that flags be flown at half-staff across Indiana on Monday to honor an eastern Indiana police officer who died after being shot in the head during a traffic stop.

The funeral for Officer Seara Burton, 28, will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Richmond High School. Following the funeral, the procession will carry her body to Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.

The public funeral for an eastern Indiana police officer who died Sunday night after being shot in the head during a traffic stop will be held next week at a high school, her department said.

Richmond Police Department Officer Seara Burton died Sunday night at a Reid Health facility surrounded by her family, the department said in a statement posted to Facebook.

A Richmond police officer was critically wounded and a man was injured in a shootout following a traffic stop and search for possible narcotics, authorities said.

The cities of Clarksville and Richmond worked with Indiana University last year to find out what parts of those communities get the hottest and who is most vulnerable to extreme heat. Now they've come up with plans to "beat the heat."

Richmond's Earlham College said some low-income Hoosier students will pay no tuition to attend the private Quaker college.The new program aims to increase the number of Indiana high schoolers that choose to go to college.

The mother of a 14-year-old boy who fired gunshots inside a Richmond middle school in 2018 has avoided any jail time for failing to take actions that authorities say could have prevented the shooting.

A lot of Americas most important music was recorded in a one-story studio that sat in a Richmond river gorge. The records from those sessions have continued to reverberate for almost a century, influencing Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Pete Seeger and countless others. But those who study Gennett have found that many still dont know how important the Richmond studio is to the history of jazz, blues, gospel and popular music. The Gennett studio building exists only in photos and record grooves now, but the Indiana Historical Society is drawing together these threads with You Are There 1927: Gennett Studio. The exhibit, which reopened Tuesday, re-creates the recording room and shows photos of musicians and documents like Carmichaels recording contract.

Wayne County commissioners voted unanimously last week to extend the program until July 1, 2021. The exchange began in August 2016 in an effort to reduce the spread of hepatitis C tied to heroin abuse.