A Texas man who took hostages in a northwestern Indiana realty office and held police at bay for several hours suffered three gunshot wounds before dying, likely from two different weapons, a coroner said Saturday. Roy L.EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A federal agency is looking for more workers to help it accelerate the cleanup of lead- and arsenic-contaminated soils in Evansville.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to remove soil tainted with the heavy metals from about 470 yards this year, double the number it handled last year. The Evansville Courier & Press reports that the EPA needs more workers for that task and is beginning to screen and train workers for a contractor that will oversee the effort.
The EPA listed Evansville's Jacobsville neighborhood area as a Superfund cleanup site in 2007 because of lead and to a lesser extent arsenic contamination blamed on several long-defunct factories. The agency expanded the Superfund site in 2009 to include all or parts of about a dozen older neighborhoods.
