LEBANON — A central Indiana pediatrician is facing charges alleging he sexually abused three boys.

Forty-one year-old Dr. Jonathon Cavins of Jamestown is charged with one count of child molestation involving a 12-year-old boy and two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor and one count of vicarious sexual gratification involving boys 16 and 14 years old.

The Lebanon Reporter reports the 12-year-old came forward on Feb. 7 with an accusation that Cavins fondled him during a routine physical three days earlier at a Witham Health Services Pediatrics suite.

After the child molestation count was filed Friday, Lebanon police detectives interviewed the two older boys over the weekend.

Witham CEO Raymond Ingham issued a statement saying Cavins no longer is employed by Witham.

A message seeking comment was left for Cavins’ attorney.

FORT WAYNE — Fort Wayne police say a motorist is dead after his car left a roadway and plunged into a river in the northeastern Indiana city.

Police say officers were called to the St. Marys River early Sunday about a possible car in the river.

Divers with Fort Wayne’s fire department later found the man’s body inside his car after they attached a cable to the vehicle and pulled it from the water.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not yet been released and an autopsy is planned.

The Journal Gazette reports that the car’s OnStar system had notified emergency crews that the car was either in or alongside the river and was moving toward Fort Wayne’s Bluffton Road bridge.

TERRE HAUTE — Indiana State University has announced the creation of an annual address in honor of slain Washington Post journalist and alumnus Jamal Khashoggi.

The university says the 1983 alumnus will be memorialized in the Jamal Khashoggi Annual Address on Journalism and the Media. It will examine current and critical issues related to journalism, the First Amendment and freedom of the press.

Invited speakers will include prominent journalists, authors, filmmakers, photojournalists or other professionals working in the media.

Khashoggi, who wrote critically about the Saudi crown prince, was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in October.

He attended Indiana State as an undergraduate from 1977 to 1982 and received a business administration degree in 1983 from the Terre Haute school.

ELKHART — Three northern Indiana police officers won’t face criminal charges in an incident in which gunshots were heard as a truck carrying the three off-duty officers traveled along a road.

Goshen officer Brody Brown was charged in December with operating while intoxicated after another officer who was nearby heard the sound of gunshots.

Brown, Goshen officer Kyle Kalb, and Elkhart officer Leonard Dolshenko were all in the vehicle and off-duty at the time of the Dec. 14 incident.

The officers told police they couldn’t recall who shot the gun due to their level of intoxication.

Elkhart County Prosecutor Vicki Becker says she couldn’t file charges related to the gunshots due to an “insufficient police response,” including a police failure to secure the truck’s officer-passengers and the vehicle to further the investigation.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana is launching a $100 million program to expand broadband internet services across rural parts of the state.

Gov. Eric Holcomb says the Next Level Broadband program will bridge the digital divide, giving more rural Hoosiers access to the internet for business or personal uses.

The governor says the “internet is just as essential to Indiana’s prosperity today as highways were a century ago.”

The $100 million program is among an additional $1 billion Holcomb announced in September would be pumped into infrastructure projects across Indiana. That money will be raised through fee increases on heavy-duty commercial vehicles that use the Indiana Toll Road.

Broadband providers can initially apply for up to $5 million to expand service to unserved areas if they provide at least a 20 percent match.

— Associated Press