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An inundated image provided by the Indiana State Police shows Shane C. Golitko. Golitko is being held in connection with the stabbing death of assistant Boy Scout leader Arthur Ld. Anderson. (AP Photo/Indiana State Police)

Scout leader stabbed to death on hiking trip

INDIANAPOLIS — As a 76-year-old scoutmaster led two young charges on a nature hike, they stopped to identify a tree — a pause authorities say put them in the path of a man who emerged from a nearby home with a 12-inch knife and stabbed the group’s leader, leaving him to bleed to death on the trail.

LDS Ind. soldier was 'free spirit' champion wrestler

INDIANAPOLIS -- Sgt. Dale Griffin was the son of a Mormon bishop, a champion wrestler and college student who was struggling to find his way in the world when he turned to the military. He was killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. The body of the Army sergeant from Terre Haute, Ind., came home in a line of flag-draped coffins saluted in Thursday's pre-dawn darkness by President Obama at Dover Air Force Base.

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