Four people were hurt in what Indiana State Police say was a high speed crash in Spencer County just before 2 a.m. Tuesday.

Troopers say 19-year-old James Warren of Santa Claus topped a hill just before a curve and then lost control of his 2008 Ford Focus on Melchoir Drive.  The vehicle then slid off the road and struck a tree.

Spencer County still enjoys one of the lowest unemployment rates in Indiana according to figures released by the Department of Workforce Development Friday.  The county's 6.7% rate is among the 20 lowest in the state and showed a large drop in unemployment from the previous month. It had been 8.2% in March.

The number of jobless workers in Perry County also dropped, going from from 8.3% in March to 7.4% in April.

Dubois County's 5.2% rate is the lowest in the state, just ahead of Hamilton (5.3%) and Daviess (5.5%).  

Overall, Indiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percent to 8.5 percent in April, the largest one month decrease in over a year. Private sector employment in the Hoosier state also increased by 6,800 jobs over the past month and exceeded the national rate of growth. Indiana has now experienced private sector employment growth in 37 of the past 40 months. 

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The push for a stoplight where a Spencer County high school student died is one step closer to happening. 

You'll soon find papers posted around Rockport to announce a public hearing with INDOT that's set for June 4.

It's a meeting that's been months in the making.

"My child was taken from me and I know INDOT says there's not enough traffic and stuff you know, but we've had one child die and that's one too many," mother Jamie Hogston said.