Indiana
3 seriously injured in house explosion in Hebron, Indiana

Three men were seriously injured in a house explosion Friday night in Hebron, Indiana.
Lake County Sheriff’s officials said the explosion happened around 6:15 p.m. at a home in the 4200 block of West 181st Avenue. The house was completely engulfed in flames, and the fire spread to a nearby farm field.
Two men, ages 49 and 39, were taken to the hospital in serious condition with burn injuries. A third man, 64, was taken to the hospital in serious condition with other injuries from the explosion.
Sheriff’s officials said it appeared the men were working to clean out the home at the time.
Lake County Sheriff’s officials, the Indiana State Fire Marshal, the Porter County Bomb Squad, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms were investigating the cause of the blast.

Indiana
4 tornadoes confirmed in Illinois and Indiana from Friday night’s storms

At least four tornadoes touched down in northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana as powerful storms swept through the Midwest late Friday night into early Saturday.
The National Weather Service confirmed three EF-0 tornadoes touched down Friday in southwest suburban Yorkville, Illinois; northwest suburban Bartlett and Hanover Park, Illinois; and Schererville and Merrillville in northwest Indiana. An EF-1 tornado also touched down in Cedar Lake, Indiana.
Storm damage survey teams also found damage from straight-line winds in eastern DeKalb County, western and northwestern Kane County, and the city of Elgin.
“It is possible that there were additional brief tornadoes that occurred within these straight-line wind corridors, but at this time, we do not have enough evidence to be able to make that conclusion. More info on these findings will be made available in the coming days,” the National Weather Service said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Among the damage left behind from Friday night’s storms, multiple barns were destroyed in Somonauk Township in DeKalb.
One of Scott Thorp’s barns was completely demolished, and the roof was sheared off another.
Storms also uprooted trees in Hanover Park, and tossed a trampoline on to the roof of a home.
In Elgin, the roof of First United Methodist Church was almost completely torn off. The church has been around for over a hundred years. It was first destroyed by a tornado in 1920.
While no one was killed in the storms in Illinois, at least 31 fatalities were reported in six states Friday night into early Saturday, as powerful storms moved across the country – including three deaths in Mississippi, 12 in Missouri, one in Oklahoma, three in Arkansas, eight in Kansas, and four in Texas.
Indiana
2 killed in crash near Indiana border

BERRIEN COUNTY, MI – Two people were killed in a crash early Saturday on U.S. 12 near the Indiana border.
Those killed in the crash were a 19-year-old man from Iowa and a 36-year-old man from Edwardsburg, according to the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office.
The crash occurred around 1:15 a.m. on Saturday, March 15, near the intersection of U.S. 12 and South Redbud Trail, just south of Buchanan.
Berrien County sheriff’s deputies believe the Iowa man was traveling southbound on Redbud Trail in a Chrysler sedan when he failed to yield at the intersection to a Jeep Wrangler that was eastbound on U.S. 12.
The two vehicles collided, with the Jeep Wrangler coming to rest on top of the Chrysler sedan.
Deputies and medical first responders found the Iowa man trapped inside his vehicle. Deputies said he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Jeep Wrangler, the Edwardsburg man, was found ejected from his vehicle. He was transported to a hospital in Niles where he was later pronounced deceased, according to deputies.
Deputies say it appears neither driver was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. Alcohol is being investigated as a possible contributing factor in the crash, they said.
The crash remains under investigation.
The Berrien County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by Michigan State Police, the Bertrand Township Fire Department, Southwest Michigan Community Ambulance Service, WMed Office of the Medical Examiner and the Berrien County Public Safety Dispatch Center.
Indiana
IU basketball recruit Trent Sisley returning to Indiana to play in Chipotle Nationals at HSE
Trent Sisley highlights: Watch new Indiana basketball commit in action
The former Heritage Hills basketball star, who is finishing at Montverde Academy in Florida, is among the top-100 players in the 2025 recruiting class
Trent Sisley is returning to play basketball in Central Indiana early next month.
Sisley, an Indiana recruit, will participate in the Chipotle Nationals with his Montverde Academy (Fla.) team from April 2-5 at Hamilton Southeastern. There are 10 boys teams and four girls teams set to play in the event, which is in its 16th year overall but moved to Central Indiana for the first time last year at Brownsburg.
Sisley’s Montverde team is seeded seventh and will play in the first game of the event against No. 10 Dynamic (Texas) at 6:15 p.m. on April 2. The winner of that game will play the No. 2 seed Link (Mo.) in a quarterfinal at 4 p.m. on April 3.
All 10 boys teams are ranked in the top 10 in the country by ESPN and three of the girls teams are ranked in the top 10. Ten games in the tournament will be available across ESPN platforms, including the boys championship on ESPN at noon on April 5. The girls championship will air on ESPN2 at 10 a.m. on April 5.
The tournament will showcase 41 boys players ranked nationally by ESPN and 19 girls’ players.
A closer look at the teams:
Boys
No. 1 Christopher Columbus (Fla.)
Ranked players: No. 3 senior Cameron Boozer (Duke), No. 16 senior Cayden Boozer (Duke), No. 8 junior Caleb Gaskins, No. 13 junior Jaxon Richardson
No. 2 Link Academy (Mo.)
Ranked players: No. 6 senior Chris Cenac Jr. (Houston), No. 42 senior Jerry Easter (USC), No. 46 senior Davion Hannah (Alabama), No. 60 senior A’mare Bynum (Ohio State), No. 65 senior John Clark (Texas)
No. 3 Long Island Lutheran (N.Y.)
Ranked players: No. 32 senior Kiyan Anthony (Syracuse), No. 40 senior Kayden Mingo (Penn State), No. 54 senior Nigel James (Marquette); No. 11 junior Dylan Mingo; No. 15 sophomore Moussa Kamissoko
No. 4 Brewster Academy (N.H.)
Ranked players: No. 38 Dwayne Aristode (Arizona); No. 42 junior Sebastian Wilkins
No. 5 CIA Bella Vista (Ariz.)
Ranked players: No. 90 senior Jaion Pitt; No. 37 junior Miles Sadler; No. 4 sophomore Paul Osaruyi
No. 6 Prolific Prep (Calif.)
Ranked players: No. 2 senior Darryn Peterson (Kansas), No. 28 senior Niko Bundalo (Washington), No. 8 sophomore Gabe Nesmith, No. 9 sophomore Obinna Ekezie
No. 7 Montverde Academy (Fla.).
Ranked players: No. 26 senior Cornelius Ingram Jr. (Florida); No. 39 senior Hudson Greer (Creighton), No. 41 senior Dante Allen (Villanova); No. 59 senior Trent Sisley (Indiana); No. 16 junior Kayden Allen; No. 21 sophomore King Gibson
No. 8 IMG Academy (Fla.)
Ranked players: No. 5 senior Darius Acuff, Jr. (Arkansas), No. 29 senior Sadiq White (Syracuse), No. 84 senior Kareem Stagg (Georgia); No. 47 junior Chase Foster, No. 53 junior Felipe Quinones, No. 54 junior Jermal Jones
No. 9 Wasatch Academy (Utah)
Ranked players: No. 13 senior Isiah Harwell (Houston); No. 55 junior Katrelle Harmon
No. 10 Dynamic Prep (Texas)
Ranked players: No. 37 senior Jaden Toombs, (SMU), No. 100 senior Jermaine O’Neal Jr. (SMU); No. 3 sophomore Marcus Spears Jr., No. 6 sophomore Ryan Hampton
Girls
No. 2 Montverde Academy (Fla).
Ranked Players: No. 4 senior Agot Makeer (South Carolina), No. 5 senior Aaliyah Crump (Texas), No. 45 senior Holland Harris (Clemson), No. 51 senior Lourdes Da Silva Costa (Alabama); No. 1 junior Saniyah Hall, No. 35 junior Melissa Odom; No. 13 sophomore Jayla Forbes
No. 4 Westtown School (Penn.)
Ranked players: No. 4 sophomore Jordyn Palmer; No. 15 sophomore Jessie Moses
No. 6 IMG Academy (Fla.)
Ranked players: No. 14 senior Deniya Prawl (Tennessee), No. 16 senior Lara Somfai (Stanford), No. 27 senior Kelis Fisher (UConn); No. 28 senior Nylah Wilson (Auburn), No. 61 senior Manuella Alves-Fernandez (Illinois); No. 19 junior Kelsi Andrews
Faith Family Academy (Texas)
Ranked players: No. 97 senior Joy Egbuna (Alabama); No. 17 junior Amari Byles, No. 49 junior Amayah Garcia; No. 18 sophomore Finley Chastain
Call Star reporter Kyle Neddenriep at (317) 444-6649.
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