AUBURN — A 1976 Ford Escort GL once owned by St. Pope John Paul II is hitting the auction block in Indiana for the second time.

The light blue car has a worn interior and no hubcaps but its storied history could help it bring up to $300,000 during the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival that runs through Sunday.

The Journal Gazette reported the Escort first was auctioned in Auburn in 1996, then became entangled in litigation. The latest auction comes after the car’s Texas owner died, leaving others to liquidate his massive auto collection.

John Paul used the four-door car when he was known as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, prior to his elevation to the papacy. He died in 2005.

TERRE HAUTE — Two police officers won’t face criminal charges for firing on a man whom authorities said shot and killed an Indiana police officer during an exchange of gunfire.

Vigo County Prosecutor Terry Modesitt said Tuesday that Terre Haute police Officers J.T. Pearce and Brian Bourbeau were justified when they opened fire during the May 4 shootout that killed Officer Rob Pitts.

Modesitt said Pearce and Bourbeau acted in self-defense in response to gunshots fired by Christopher Wolfe, 21, whom police said fatally shot Pitts.

The Tribune-Star reported that Wolfe died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Modesitt said an additional injury to Wolfe’s head suggests he may have been grazed by a gunshot or injured by a bullet fragment during the exchange of gunfire.

INDIANAPOLIS — A former Butler University athlete is accusing the school and a campus fraternity of failing to protect her from a male student-athlete with a history of sexual assault whom she alleges raped her.

The woman filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging the former football player raped her in the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity house in December 2016 when she was an 18-year-old lacrosse player.

The lawsuit alleges that the same man had raped another female student-athlete the previous school year, but Butler officials failed to take appropriate action when she reported it.

Butler said Monday the university investigated the allegations and expelled the accused student last year. He wasn’t named in the lawsuit, arrested or criminally charged.

The fraternity was kicked off campus last year.

EVANSVILLE — The library system in Indiana’s third-largest city is becoming the latest in the state to drop fines for overdue items to encourage more people to visit its branches.

The Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library will end all fines on overdue books and other items on Saturday. The goal is to remove barriers that stop individuals, youths and families from checking out library items.

Although those fines are being eliminated, library fees for services such as copying and printing will remain in place. Materials borrowed through Interlibrary Loan may remain subject to late fines.

DUFF — Conservation officers said a southern Indiana man died when an all-terrain vehicle he was riding rolled into a pond, trapping him underwater.

A relative called 911 after finding Jeremy “Jerry” Terwiske, 60, trapped Sunday beneath the ATV in a private pond in the Dubois County town of Ireland.

Conservation officers with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources responded and a coroner pronounced Terwiske dead at the scene about 45 miles northeast of Evansville. An autopsy was pending.

The (Jasper) Herald reported that Terwiske was a married father of three and a grandfather.

—Associated Press