Allegiant Air announced this week it will offer new, nonstop service between Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and South Bend, Ind.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - George Lucas said Friday that filming of the long-awaited "Indiana Jones" movie will begin next year. Harrison Ford, who appeared in the three earlier flicks, the last one coming in 1989, is set to star again. Lucas said he and Steven Spielberg recently finalized the script for the film.

Gilbert Highland coach Mark Carlino has resigned as boys basketball coach at the school, and he will be moving to Indiana with his son, Matt, this summer.

SHELBYVILLE, Indiana - Edna Parker, who became the world's oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115.

LOS ANGELES - "Indiana Jones" star Shia LaBeouf was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving Sunday after an early morning car crash in which he was injured, police said.

The Phoenix Mercury looked mighty comfortable at home Friday night as they put the whammy on Western Conference rival Seattle for the first and only time this season.

FRANKLIN, Ind. - Storms dumped as much as 10 inches of rain on already-soggy central Indiana on Saturday, threatening dams, inundating highways and forcing the Coast Guard to rescue residents from swamped homes.

INDIANAPOLIS - Wicked weekend storms pounded the country from the Midwest to the East Coast, forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded communities, spawning tornadoes that tore up houses and killing at least five people.

Indiana Jones received louder applause going in than he did coming out.

LOS ANGELES - Times sure have changed in the 19 years since Harrison Ford last donned the signature fedora of thrill-seeking archaeologist Indiana Jones. The viral spread of the trailer for "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is proof of that.

PRINCETON, Ind. - Three men being carried in a construction bucket fell out and plunged 500 feet down an air shaft at a coal mine Friday, killing them, authorities said. No one else was injured, said George Zugel, director of safety and health for Frontier-Kemper Constructors Inc., which is building the 550-foot vertical ventilation shaft at the Gibson County Coal mine in southern Indiana.

LOS ANGELES - After months of building Internet buzz, this can finally be reported as fact: Shia LaBeouf has been cast in the upcoming "Indiana Jones" movie.