Carmel man kills father, injures mother
40 year-old Christopher Claerbout of Carmel has been arrested for the murder of his father and the beating of his mother. Claerbout allegedly entered his parents’ home on Monday morning, pushing his mother down the stairs and tying her with an extension cord. It is believed that he then proceeded to argue with his father in the driveway, and eventually stab him to death.
Emergency responders were called to the scene after 6pm that evening. Police were able to locate Claerbout in his father’s vehicle through OnStar tracking. He was apprehended in Seymour, with the assistance of K-9s after running into a wooded area.
Marcia Claerbout, the suspect’s mother, reported to Police that her son entered their house that morning with accusations that she and her husband were Bill and Hillary Clinton, and he was Donald Trump, and black.
The suspect told Police he had planned to arrest his mother under the War Crimes Act for the crimes she committed against him and the crimes she committed against the country.
$26 billion national settlement reached with drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson
IndianaAttorney General Todd Rokita announced the final approval of a $26 billion opioid agreement with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors — Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen — and Johnson & Johnson. Indiana communities can receive up to $507 million if Indiana communities opt into the state’s settlement under pending legislation in the Indiana General Assembly that gives them until July to do so.
The defendants will start releasing funds to a national administrator on April 2, 2022, and money will start flowing to state and local governments in the second quarter of 2022. In Indiana, the current settlement structure splits the funds into several segments, amounting to a 50-50 split between the state and local communities.
- First, 30 percent of the settlement funds can be used however local communities and the state want to use those funds. Of that amount, half goes to local communities, and half goes to the state.
- Second, the other 70 percent is designated for opioid abatement efforts in local communities. State leaders decide how to allocate half that amount — or 35 percent of the total — and local governments decide how to allocate the other half of that total.
The agreement marks the culmination of three years of negotiations to resolve more than 4,000 claims of state and local governments across the country. It is the second largest multistate agreement in U.S. history, second only to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
Math Festival Hosted by Women in Math Club at IU
The Women in Math Club at IU is hosting an in-person math festival on March 5th from 1-3pm. Join us for games and puzzles that engage young students in mathematical reasoning and logic skills. Ideally suited for children ages 4-9, but all are welcome. Children should bring an adult with them to come explore the beauty of math through entertaining, hands-on activities. Drop in whenever you can between 1-3 pm. Visit here for more information
This Week in Hoosier History
1954 – Doctors began the first mass inoculation of children with the Salk polio vaccine, produced by Eli Lilly Laboratories in Indianapolis. The clinical trials were the largest ever conducted, with four million children participating.
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