LYNNVILLE — A southern Indiana woman is facing a drunken driving charge after she allegedly drove the wrong way on a highway and crashed into a trooper’s patrol car.

Angela Ayer, 52, of Dale, was arrested late Saturday on a misdemeanor count of driving while intoxicated.

State police say Ayer’s blood-alcohol level was .23%, or nearly three times Indiana’s legal limit of 08%, after she struck the trooper’s patrol car while driving west along eastbound Interstate 64.

The trooper wasn’t injured. The collision occurred after he drove his marked patrol car onto the eastbound lanes to warn motorists about the wrong-way driver and to try to stop Ayer.

Ayer was released from the Warrick County Jail after posting bond. It’s unclear if she has an attorney.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Transportation is warning motorists it will close parts of Interstate 65 and I-70 on the south side of Indianapolis beginning this week to complete work delayed by recent rains. It says all southbound lanes of I-65 will be closed from the downtown South Split to I-465 starting Friday at 9 p.m. It says the closure will last for nine days and all lanes are scheduled to reopen on Monday, July 22, by 6 a.m.

INDOT says it will then close all eastbound and westbound lanes of I-70 from the South Split to I-465 on the west side starting at 9 p.m. on July 26. That closure also will last for nine days and all lanes are due to reopen at 6 a.m. Aug. 5.

INDIANAPOLIS — Health officials in Indianapolis say a hard-to-kill intestinal parasite is showing up in swimming pools in Indiana’s most-populous county.

The Marion County Public Health Department says it’s confirmed 18 cases of cryptosporidiosis so far this year. That’s 10 more than at this time last year.

The Indianapolis Star reports the parasite that’s often referred to as “crypto” spreads through the feces of infected humans or animals, and can survive up to 10 days in chlorinated pool water.

People infected with the parasite experience diarrhea and often other symptoms, including stomach cramps or pain, dehydration and nausea.

Word of the Marion County cases comes days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said crypto outbreaks nationwide have increased by an average of 13% each year from 2009 to 2017.

INDIANAPOLIS — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will speak at the 2019 Young Democrats of America convention in Indianapolis next week.

The Young Democrats of America and the Indiana Young Democrats announced Sunday that Pelosi will speak to the meeting on the evening of July 19.

The groups say more than 1,000 people are expected to attend the convention July 17-20, at Indianapolis’ Union Station.

South Bend Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is scheduled to address the convention on July 18.

The Young Democrats of America claim more than 150,000 members in 48 states and U.S. territories.

VINCENNES — Renovation work has begun in southwestern Indiana on an ornate, nearly century-old theater where comic Red Skelton first appeared on stage.

Crews began demolition in June for new construction work at the Pantheon Theatre. The $2.4 million renovation and reuse project will turn the Vincennes building into a shared work space and business incubator called the Pantheon Business Theater.

The Vincennes Sun-Commercial reports the project will include new plumbing and bathrooms, a redesign of the theater’s main stage as an event space and an open-concept shared workspace.

The Renaissance Revival-style theater opened in 1921 in the city about 50 miles north of Evansville. The venue was the first stage on which Vincennes native Skelton performed and it also hosted the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones and Duke Ellington.

PERU — Peru has become the latest community in the state to require police officers to wear body cameras.

The Peru Police Department implemented its body-camera program last week after its Board of Works approved policies detailing the cameras’ use.

The Kokomo Tribune reports that officers must now wear a camera at all times and record every encounter they have with a citizen in the city of about 11,000 residents.

Officials say the cameras will decrease resident complaints, use-of-force incidents by police and help the city avoid costly lawsuits.

Peru Police Chief Mike Meeks says the department began considering using body cameras a few years ago, but pressed ahead after Indiana lawmakers passed new guidelines on their usage.

Peru is about 70 miles north of Indianapolis.

—Associated Press