Apartment Building

LAPORTE - An amazing rescue in LaPorte was caught on camera. A WSBT viewer Jason Ott sent us a video of the fire. Five people were stranded on the roof of a burning apartment building Saturday afternoon in the nine-hundred block of Jackson Street. Some of them jumped from their roof to the roof of a nearby garage as they waited for firefighters with ladders to help them down. Thankfully no one was seriously injured and everyone made it out okay. Firefighters are still investigating what caused the fire.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Bloomington police say a search effort that enlisted volunteers to look for signs of a missing Indiana University student is coming to an end. Chief Michael Diekhoff said Tuesday in a statement that the search headquarters for Lauren Spierer (SPEER'-ur) is expected to close Wednesday as police shift to information "based on investigative leads" in their probe of the 20-year-old woman's disappearance. He thanked the thousands of volunteers who took parts in dozens of searches for their efforts.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - An upscale apartment building in downtown Bloomington is working to clean up its image since the June disappearance of an Indiana University student who lived there. Police records show officers were called to Smallwood Plaza nearly 450 times over a 3 1/2 year period, but The Herald-Times reports that's only about half as many calls as another popular student housing complex. Smallwood officials acknowledge many of those calls involve alcohol.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - A cable company is apologizing after it sent bills for damaged equipment to people left homeless by fire at a Traverse City apartment building. Some former residents at Alpine Apartments were ordered to pay up to $500. Patty Schropt was outraged. She says her equipment "melted to the floor. " Charter Communications backed off last week after calls from the Traverse City Record-Eagle ( http://bit.ly/nihYfP ). Communications manager Bill Morand says it was an "unfortunate" mistake.

NEW YORK (AP) - Police say a second victim has died after a stabbing rampage by a naked man armed with a 10-inch kitchen knife at his New York City apartment building. Police say 23-year-old Christian Falero knocked on several neighbors' doors Tuesday in his Washington Heights building and stabbed those who answered. Eighty-one-year-old Ignacio Reyes-Collazo was killed Tuesday. The death of 60-year-old Yigao (EE'-gow) Chen was announced Wednesday. Two other women, ages 75 and 85, were also stabbed, and a younger home health aide was punched.

MISHAWAKA - A Mishawaka man is behind bars after police say he fired several shots inside his apartment. Police were called to the 200 block of East Mishawaka Ave. around 4:40 a.m. Wednesday. Whey they arrived, officers surrounded the apartment building and ordered 26-year-old Lonnie Cheatman out. Police were told Cheatman, who lives in a lower apartment unit, has fired off several shots. Officers were able to clear the building and took Cheatman into custody without incident.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A deputy coroner says a woman who was critically injured when fire swept through her apartment has been declared brain dead. Deputy Vanderburgh County Coroner Brian Claspell says 24-year-old Kristyn Frazier was being kept on life support Thursday until her organs could be donated. Claspell says she was declared brain dead at 7:44 a.m. Thursday. St. Mary's Medical Center spokesman Rick Peltier said Frazier' daughters, 4-year-old Aaliyah and 3-year-old Akeleigh, were in critical but stable condition and hooked up to ventilators Thursday.

MISHAWAKA — Two were taken to the hospital Monday night — a resident for smoke inhalation and a firefighter for a minor eye injury — after a fire erupted at 5630 Town Center Drive in Main Street Village Apartments. The 8-unit apartment building was evacuated after the fire started around 5:30 p.m. The building was heavily damaged. According to the Mishawaka Fire Marshall, only half of the renters had renters insurance. According to the fire marshall, it will take some time, days or weeks, before the cause of this fire will be determined.

NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) - A central Indiana judge has postponed for the fifth time the murder trial of a man accused of setting a fire that killed a 64-year-old woman. Fifty-year-old Donald G. Guffey's trial had been set for March 19, but a Henry Circuit Court judge recently granted a request by Guffey's public defender for a continuance. The Star Press reports ( http://tspne.ws/xRDjJO ) the judge will set a new trial date for Guffey at a March 1 hearing.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Las Vegas couple has been indicted on murder and conspiracy charges in the slaying of an apartment owner whose body was found in a garment box outside a downtown apartment building. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports 20-year-olds Anthony Stiger and Melanie Costantini also were indicted on one count each of armed robbery and burglary in the slaying of 58-year-old Harold Myles Shilberg. They could face the death penalty. The indictment handed up Wednesday moves the case to state court.