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Man sentenced to 115 years released by mistake\nINDIANAPOLIS -- A 42-year-old man about to serve 115 years in prison for attempted murder was released from jail on a clerical mistake instead of being transferred to state prison.\nMarion County deputies and federal marshals were searching Wednesday for Currie O'Bryant after a clerk checked the column marked "d" for days instead of "y" for years on the sentencing form.\n"We are exhausting every possible lead that we have to determine his whereabouts," said Sgt. Clair Stipe, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's department. "And we will follow every lead that we get."\nO'Bryant was convicted on five counts of attempted murder last year on charges that he shot at guests during a party in Indianapolis following an argument.\nFive people were wounded before another guest shot O'Bryant.\nO'Bryant was released April 7 after charges in a separate case were dismissed. The mistake was discovered Tuesday when a paralegal, working with an attorney on O'Bryant's appeal, called the judge asking where O'Bryant was.\nA judge soon afterward signed an order for O'Bryant's re-arrest.\nWoman struck, killed by city bus at Lafayette mall\nLAFAYETTE -- A woman who had just stepped off a bus near Tippecanoe Mall was struck and killed soon afterward by another bus.\nTeri L. Cassel, 42, of Lafayette suffered massive injuries when she stepped in front of a CityBus trolley about 1 p.m. Tuesday.\nCassel had left the bus when it stopped behind a Wendy's restaurant and had crossed an access road when she was struck by the second vehicle as it was turning.\nCassel, who was stuck under the specially decorated bus and dragged for several feet, was pronounced dead at the scene.\nLafayette police Lt. Jeanette Bennett said trolley driver was not cited at the scene of the crash, but that the report would be given to the county prosecutor's office for review.\nFirefighters receive big checks for \n34-year-old error\nINDIANAPOLIS -- An accounting error dating back 34 years has left more than 150 firefighters with a pleasant surprise -- checks averaging $13,000 for mistakenly withheld Social Security taxes.\nIn a highly unusual move, the Social Security Administration last week began returning more than $4.1 million to Washington Township and its firefighters for taxes withheld in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001.\nThe Marion County township, which paid the employer's share of Social Security taxes, will receive about half the $4.1 million. The rest goes go to 156 firefighters, recent retirees and the wife of one man who died in 1999.\nFire Chief Joe Anderson, who received the largest refund -- $25,000 -- used some of the money to pay off a loan he took out to buy a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.\n"We've told our firefighters, make sure you use some of the money to invest. Don't spend it on a motorcycle," Anderson joked.\nThe windfall wasn't entirely unexpected. Firefighters had suspected for years that the township should not have been paying Social Security taxes.