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A University of Oklahoma official says the starting quarterback for Oklahoma's national championship teams in 1974 and 1975 is one of two men killed when a small plane slammed into a house in northern Indiana.

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 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.