Some still without power

INDIANAPOLIS – The state’s Department of Homeland Security says fewer than 100 utility customers in southern Indiana are still without power from last week’s storms.

Department spokesman John Erickson says the outages as of Tuesday afternoon involved Duke Energy and Harrison County REMC customers. Duke reported 54 outages on its Web site at 5 p.m., with the largest single block being 11 in Clark County.

Duke, the state’s largest electric utility, reported that more than 300,000 homes and businesses lost power in central and southern Indiana as high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ike raked the state Sept. 14, one of its largest outages ever.