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EVANSVILLE -- A handful of Indiana airports have teamed up to recruit an intrastate airline.\nAirport directors in Evansville, Gary, South Bend, Lafayette and Terre Haute have each agreed to pay $8,000 to $9,000 for grant application preparation fees in hopes of obtaining federal funding to attract an airline.\nThe Fort Wayne airport is also expected to take part, said Gene Olson, the assistant Evansville airport manager.\nThe main focus is on persuading an airline to offer flights from each city to Indianapolis.\nThree fisherman rescue man on suicide mission\nINDIANAPOLIS -- Three fishermen rescued a man who jumped from a bridge into White River in an apparent suicide attempt.\n"He said he had gotten to the bridge and didn't feel like living anymore," witness Eddie Lee Brochin said. "He said the only thing he thought about before he jumped was his daughter and granddaughter. I told him it wasn't his time to go."\nThe man, whose name was not released, was sent to Methodist Hospital for treatment.\nMan sentenced to year in prison for Anthrax hoax\nINDIANAPOLIS -- An Alexandria man was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison for causing an anthrax hoax at a Delaware County truck stop where he worked, federal prosecutors said.\nDavid W. Jones, 27, was convicted in February of making a false report on Oct. 26 by placing a white substance on a men's bathroom counter at Hoosier Heartland Truck Plaza at Interstate 69 and Indiana 28.\nAuthorities said he also wrote "Anthrax is in here somewhere" on a stall door at the truck stop near Gaston, about 45 miles northeast of Indianapolis.\nJones is currently serving a 10-year sentence in a state prison for violating probation by committing the hoax. U.S. District Judge Larry J. McKinney ordered that Jones must serve six months of his federal sentence after he completes his state prison term.\nJones had faced up to a five-year sentence on the federal conviction.\nFirefighter collapses while helping with evacuation\nWARREN, Ind. -- A firefighter who collapsed while helping evacuate homes around an aluminum plant where a natural gas line was cut remained hospitalized Wednesday in fair condition.\nAfter Warren firefighter Ron Boxell collapsed Tuesday night, an emergency medical technician gave him cardiopulmonary resuscitation and used defibrillator paddles on him, Warren Fire Chief Tim Ford said.\nBoxell was airlifted to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, where he was listed in fair condition Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said.\nFirefighters were called to Heartland Aluminum about 9:40 p.m. Tuesday after workers clearing space for a Dumpster with a Bobcat "got a little too deep" and severed a gas line, Ford told the Herald-Press of Huntington.\nVectren Energy employees closed the line about 75 minutes later at the plant in Warren, about 30 miles southwest of Fort Wayne.\nFord said Heartland Aluminum melts aluminum wheels and the plant "had both of their burners going, so that was why I wanted to get everybody out"