Regional Summary, Wednesday 11/14

Indiana Summary: Leader Of IMPD To Get New Role (Indianapolis) -- The head of the Indianapolis Police Department, Sheriff Frank Anderson, will be getting a new job under the leadership of Greg Ballard when he takes over as mayor of Indianapolis. Anderson has served under the Bart Peterson administration and fellow Democrats. Republicans now lead the city. Ballard says that his first priority is to give a new role to Anderson. In January, Anderson will become sheriff for the second time, the job he says he will keep regardless of Ballards plan to shift leadership to a mayor-appointed chief. Anderson says that his job is not in jeopardy. He says that he was elected to his term and he has three more years on his term. Anderson maintains that he should be in charge. He has not yet met with mayor-elect Ballard to discuss his future. --- Police Release Sketch Of Wanted Rape Suspect (Indianapolis) -- Police yesterday released a sketch of a wanted rape suspect on the citys south side. Police hope the sketch will soon lead to an arrest. The suspect is sought after the rape of a woman at an apartment complex near Thompson Road on June 22nd. Anyone with information that can help in the case is asked to call 262-TIPS. --- Here Are Tuesdays Winning Numbers From The Hoosier Lottery Daily Three-Midday: 3-2-4; Daily Three-Evening: 6-5-0; Daily Four-Midday: 4-3-8-6; Daily Four-Evening: 2-3-7-8; Lucky Five-Midday: 3-4-24-30-32; Lucky Five-Evening: 4-12-28-30-36; Mix & Match: 17-19-24-41-42. Kentucky Summary: (Williamstown, KY) -- Kentucky State Police say theyre investigating the death of a northern Kentucky dentist and his wife as a double homicide. When Dr. Terrence Bramlage didnt come to work, his office was worried and called state police. At the doctors home in Grant County south of Williamstown they discovered the bodies of 53-year-old Terrence Bramlage and his wife Lynda, also fifty-three. An autopsy is being conducted today. Investigators wont say why they believe the deaths were the result of a double homicide. (Frankfort, KY) -- Governor-elect Steve Beshear says he wants a traditional inaugural. Inauguration day, December 11th will begin with a private worship service, then the swearing in, and parade and three public balls held in tents on the Capitol grounds. Beshear has named Tracy and Carol Farmer of Midway and Wade and Alice Houston of Louisville as chairs of the inaugural committee. He named Michael Cooper of Lexington as executive director and Linda Karns as inaugural budget director. (Elizabethtown, KY) -- Meeting in Elizabeth, the Kentucky Baptist Convention has selected a Lexington pastor as president. The 881-attendees voted by acclamation to elect Bill Henard president. Henard is pastor of the Porter Memorial Baptist Church. The Baptist Convention also voted to oppose expanded gambling, passing a resolution that says legalized gambling "violates a number of biblical principals." (Frankfort, KY) -- Kentucky State Police report that all six-people killed in six-motor vehicle accidents last week were not wearing seat belts. A pedestrian also died in an accident. Through last week, 742-people have lost their lives on Kentucky roadways this year. (Frankfort, KY) -- Two Fort Campbell based soldiers have been killed by improvised explosive devices in Iraq the past week. The governor has directed that flags be flown at half-staff until funerals are conducted for both. The soldiers are identified as Specialist Jermaine Franklin of Arlington, Texas, and Captain Benjamin Tiffner of West Virginia. Funeral arrangements for both are incomplete. (Harrodsburg, KY) -- Nineteen-year-old Lee Anderson is to spend his life in prison. A Mercer Circuit judge handing down the sentence to Anderson, who plead guilty with conditions in the stabbing death of retired school teacher 72-year-old Louise Pulliam. In open court, Anderson apologized to Pulliams family. Judge Darren Peckler responded "But for your age, you would face the death penalty." (Lexington, KY) -- A man wearing a mask, gloves and covered with clothes held up the Chase Bank on Northern Broadway in Lexington Tuesday morning. He showed workers a handgun, demanded money and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. A few hours later a man held up a BB&T Bank, but an off duty police officer heard the broadcast and arrested a suspect. Then a man with a bandanna covering his face tried to gain entry to a Federal Bank robbed four-times since June. Bank workers refused to let that suspicious person inside the bank and called police. The would be robber fled. Illinois Summary: Peterson Search Continues As Husbands Ex-Wife Is Exhumed (Bolingbrook) -- His fourth wife is missing, his third wifes death is being reexamined, and now a Bolingbrook Police Sergeant is reportedly quitting his job. The "Chicago Tribune" reports Drew Peterson turned in a letter of resignation Monday. Hes been suspended without pay since last week, and is considered a suspect in the disappearance of his current wife, Stacy Peterson. The 23-year-old mother hasnt been seen since late last month. Meanwhile, authorities yesterday exhumed the casket of Drew Petersons ex-wife Kathleen Savio yesterday. A coroners jury called her 2004 bathtub drowning death an accident, but Stacy Petersons disappearance has renewed interest in the case. A State Police spokesman also confirms that Drew Petersons brother Paul has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in the Stacy Peterson case. Volunteers and police searching for Stacy yesterday again came up empty. --- West Side Driver Shot, Killed By Three Chicago Police Officers (Chicago) -- The head of Chicagos new Independent Police Review Authority is promising a full investigation into the shooting of a driver on the citys West Side by three police officers. Authority administrator Ilana Rosenzweig says two of the officers stopped the man at about 10:30 last night in the first block of North Lorel Avenue for a traffic violation. Two more officers showed up, and during the stop, three of the four opened fire. Rosenzweig says authorities found a handgun on the ground outside the car, but its not certain whether the driver used that gun to threaten or shoot at the officers. The victim is described as being in his twenties. An autopsy is scheduled later today. --- Firefighters Find Second Burned Body In Two-Days (Chicago) -- The burned bodies of two women have been found a day apart and only miles from each other on Chicagos South Side. Todays grisly discovery came when firefighters responded to a dumpster fire behind Reavis Elementary School in the 800 block of South 50th Street shortly before 1 a.m. A spokesman says officials are conducting a death investigation and still trying to figure out how the fire started. Police say a victim found at about midnight Tuesday in an alley in the 61-hundred block of South Prairie Avenue was strangled before she was set on fire. Her death has been ruled a homicide. Police say the deaths do not appear to be connected. --- Daley Budget, Property Tax Hike Clear Council (Chicago) -- Chicagos City Council passed Mayor Daleys proposed 2008 budget, but in a much closer vote than similar plans from previous years. Ten aldermen voted against the proposal yesterday, and 21 said no to a property tax hike that will raise 84-million-dollars to help pay for the plan. Daley says those who voted against the property tax increase were just trying to save face. Other higher taxes and fees include a five-cent surcharge on bottled water. --- Lawmakers Suggest Banning Immigrants From Secure Airport Areas (Chicago) -- Two U.S. Representatives from Illinois are suggesting that only U.S. citizens be allowed to hold jobs in secure areas of the nations airports. Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Melissa Bean introduced the proposal yesterday. Kirk says it comes after dozens of illegal immigrants were arrested for using fake ID badges to work at Chicagos OHare Airport. He says heightened fingerprint and picture technology are also important. Bean and Kirk also want to see stepped up security at OHare itself, including vehicle inspections at a back gate used by many workers. --- High Schoolers Kicked Out After Protest Can Now Return (Berwyn) -- Fourteen Morton West High School students who faced expulsion for their roles in an anti-war protest will be allowed back in school today. District Superintendent Ben Nowakowski says four more students who led the group can return to the Berwyn school on Friday. All had been suspended from classes since their protest on the first of the month. Nowakowski has said the students were disciplined because they did not listen to police or teachers, not because of their views on Iraq. The students say their sit-in was peaceful. --- Transit Funding Discussions To Resume Today (Chicago) -- Governor Blagojevich, Mayor Daley, and the four legislative leaders will get together in Chicago this morning to talk about mass transit funding and a capital construction bill. The state has already "bailed out" the CTA and RTA twice because leaders could not agree on a permanent funding solution. Its unlikely a transit solution will be reached without an agreement on road and bridge construction. Funding for that is so far tied to the creation of new casinos in Chicago and the suburbs. Mayor Daley was invited to the summit because Daley, as the governor put it, has "demanded" a transit funding answer. --- Suburban University Evacuated After Bomb Threat (University Park) -- Governors State University is open as normal today after a bogus bomb threat that cancelled last nights classes. A spokesman says the grounds were evacuated about 7:15, after an anonymous caller said there was a bomb on campus. The Cook County Sheriffs Department bomb squad searched each building but found no explosives. The investigation into the phone call is ongoing. --- Sex Offender Gets Temporary Job At Batavia Middle School (Batavia) -- Authorities in Batavia say a convicted sex offender worked four-days at a middle school in that town this month. School Superintendent Jack Barshinger says 41-year-old Gary Gasper somehow got a temporary job working in the kitchen at Rotolo Middle School last week. Authorities say he spent two-days there and one at the high school before a detective working at the middle school ran Gaspers name through the state sex offender registry. He was convicted in Wisconsin 15-years ago of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old. Gasper is charged with four felony counts of being in a school zone as a sex offender. --- Postal Worker Allegedly Shot Because Of Late Delivery (Chicago) -- Witnesses tell police someone shouted that the mail was being delivered too late shortly before a mailman was shot in the leg last night. Thirty-one-year-old Denny Robinson is expected to make a full recovery. He was shot at about 6:30 p.m. in the 100 block of West 118th Street. Postal Inspector David Colen says carriers are supposed to finish their routes by 5, but with the Veterans Day holiday Robinson likely had to work late. Robinson remains hospitalized at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Authorities are investigating. (Copyright 2007 by Newsroom Solutions) RNS-11-14-07 0643CST