United Auto Workers union members who went on strike Saturday at a Stellantis casting plant in Indiana are returning to work after ratifying a deal with the company.

The UAW Local 1166 bargaining committee announced a tentative agreement in a blog post, saying that a ratification vote would be held Monday.

The venture announced Tuesday plans to spend more than $2.5 billion on the plant in Kokomo that will supply electric battery modules for a range of vehicles produced at Stellantis' North American assembly plants.

A 14-year-old boy faces a murder charge in the fatal shooting of his 17-year-old brother in central Indiana.

The Douglass School, named after abolitionist Fredrick Douglass, opened during segregation and eventually merged with an all-white school in the 1950s before closing in 1968.

Kokomo officials recently submitted their proposed cleanup plan to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management spelling out how they will address the toxic soils found on land at the city's wastewater treatment plant.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra said the automaker learned valuable lessons last year when it converted an Indiana factory to boost emergency production of ventilators to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients.

After being praised as essential during the pandemic, Kokomo Schools service employees are pushing for improved working conditions and higher pay.

School employees in Kokomo are fighting to organize a union after the school corporation voted not to recognize it earlier this year.

A special alloy made at Haynes International in Kokomo was used on the Sky Crane thrusters that lowered NASA's Perseverance rover onto the planet