The Indiana State Department of Health said Monday that 17 cases of hepatitis A have been confirmed statewide in the past month, including 11 in Clark and Floyd counties.

Clark County's needle exchange had been open each Thursday, for six hours, since it began operations in Jeffersonville in January 2017.

Overdose deaths in southern Indiana's Clark County dropped from 90 to 60 between 2016 and 2017, a 33 percent decrease, according to preliminary data.

The Clark County Health Department is waiting on final numbers but said tests so far show 60 drug-related deaths in 2017. That compares to 90 in 2016.

Clark County commissioners on Thursday night voted unanimously to extend the program for another year. The program now will be up for renewal at the end of August 2018.

The governor is asking the U.S. Small Business Administration for disaster loans that could help recovery from flooding that started in late May.

Republican precinct committee members voted Wednesday to appoint Tony Bennett to a vacant Clark County Council position, but he could not take the seat because he has not met the residency requirement.

The A&E program "60 Days In" followed seven undercover volunteers disguised as inmates at the Clark County Jail.

The county originally planned to partner with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to run the exchange, but that plan fell apart.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management issued an ozone advisory for Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Scott, and Washington counties because of ozone levels that are forecast to be high.