INDIANAPOLIS — A former Indiana lawmaker has been appointed to lead a commission that will examine the state’s Prohibition-era alcohol laws.

Former state Sen. Beverly Gard was announced Tuesday to lead the Alcohol Code Revision Commission, which was established by the General Assembly’s Legislative Council.

Indiana’s antiquated booze laws became a hot issue during this year’s legislative session after a convenience store owner devised a way to sell carryout cold beer.

Gard retired from the state Senate in 2012 after 24 years.

DALEVILLE — Authorities said they’ve seized dozens of animals from a farm where numerous animal carcasses also were found.

The Star Press reported officials went to the rural Daleville property Monday to investigate. As of Tuesday afternoon they’d removed about 50 goats, nine calves and a pig.

Animals were taken to Muncie Animal Care and Services, which usually houses dogs and cats, and the farm animals were being taken by another farmer to be cared for as pets. Officials say some of the animals were in poor condition.

Muncie Animal Care and Services Director Phil Peckinpaugh said many of the goats were malnourished and others had open wounds. Some cows and pigs were left on the property with the owner with the understanding that they’d get better care.

LEBANON — A central Indiana city is working on a deal for a company to reopen a shuttered warehouse and potentially hire more than 1,100 people.

The proposal from XPO Logistics would have it take over a former Pearson Education book distribution center in Lebanon that’s been vacant since late 2014. The Greenwich, Conn.-based company plans spending nearly $31 million to equip the facility and open it by late next year.

The Indianapolis Business Journal reported the Lebanon City Council voted Monday to approve about $2 million in tax incentives.

Boone County Economic Development Corp. director Molly Whitehead said XPO is the first company in nearly three years to seriously consider the 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse.

MUNCIE — About 10 head of cattle died after a semitrailer carrying them overturned along Interstate 69.

Police said the truck driven by Chester Smith of Stanton, Ky., crashed on an exit ramp at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday. Smith told police a car forced him off the ramp.

The Star Press reported the truck was hauling 38 head of cattle from Springfield, Ky., to Plainview, Mich. The animals were trapped in the trailer, some injured so badly they had to be put down with gunshots. By 10:30 a.m., about 10, some of them dead, had been removed.

Authorities called for a dump truck to remove the dead animals.

Police said Smith and a passenger were unhurt.

NEWBURGH — Alcoa Corp. plans to partially reopen its aluminum smelting operations in southwestern Indiana, restoring nearly half of the 600 jobs lost when it shut down the facility along the Ohio River last year.

Alcoa said it will spend about $30 million to restart three of five smelter lines at its Warrick Operations near Evansville, where its rolling mill makes aluminum for food and beverage packaging. The Pittsburgh-based company closed the smelter in March 2016 and expects production resuming during spring 2018.

Plans are to add about 275 jobs to the facility, which has about 1,250 workers. That’s expected to include layoff recalls.

—Associated Press