EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Southwestern Indiana police are investigating an apparent industrial accident that killed a man at an Evansville livestock-feed plant.

Lt. Monty Guenin of Evansville police said emergency personnel were called to the Land O’Lakes Purina Feed plant about 2 a.m. March 6. Guenin told the Evansville Courier & Press the man was killed in an apparent industrial accident.

Evansville Fire Department district chief Dan Grimm identified the victim to the newspaper as 43-year-old Nugene S. Pike of Evansville. He said one of Pike’s co-workers called 911 after discovering Pike unresponsive and entangled in a man-lift at the facility.

Grimm said Pike was found suspended about 20 feet above the ground and was stuck between the lift and the wall. Firefighters had to disassemble part of the lift to get Pike free, according to Grimm. The cause of the accident is still under investigation.

VERSAILLES, Ind. (AP) — Three teenagers who had left a school function early were killed Thursday when their pickup trucks collided at a rural intersection in southeastern Indiana, police and school officials said.

The two-vehicle crash involved six students from South Ripley High School in the small town of Versailles, about 45 miles west of Cincinnati. The students had the day off of school to attend an FFA event at a rural church, but they left the daylong event around 9:30 a.m. after serving breakfast to local agriculture officials, Superintendent Rob Moorhead said.

Police believe both drivers ran a four-way stop and their trucks collided at a right angle, with the larger dual-wheel Dodge truck hitting the smaller Ford F-250 broadside. Three of the teenagers died at the scene, and the others were taken to local hospitals, Indiana State Police Sgt. Noel Houze said.

Those killed were identified as the driver of the Ford F-250, 17-year-old Timothy Bowman of Osgood, and his passenger, 18-year-old Jacob Vogel of Versailles. A passenger in the other pickup, 18-year-old Samantha Hanson of Holton, also was killed.

The AP reported investigators don’t know why the teenagers left the event early. Police say the intersection where the crash occurred is flat with no visual obstructions. Houze said officers haven’t determined how fast the trucks were traveling, but speed appears to be a factor because of the extent of the damage to the vehicles.

RTV6 of Indianapolis reported the injured students were identified as Thomas Crawford, 17, of Dillsboro, and Caleb Cumberworth, 15, and Kayla Adkinson, 15, both of Holton. Crawford was taken to University Hospital in Cincinnati with chest injuries, police said. Cumberworth suffered a minor injury to one of his hands. Adkinson suffered a broken pelvis in the crash.

BAD AXE, Mich. — An immigration raid at a Michigan dairy farm turned into some big cash gifts for two state police agencies, which received more than half a million dollars from the federal government for helping investigate and expose unlawful hiring practices at the farm, federal authorities announced last week.

The Detroit Free Press reported the Michigan State Police and the Huron County Sheriff’s Office have each received nearly $287,000 – money that stemmed from a criminal investigation of Aquila Farms, a Bad Axe dairy farm that was staffed almost exclusively with illegal immigrants, officials said.

The dairy operation made headlines in 2007, when federal agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations raided the farm and arrested dozens of illegal immigrants.

The raid triggered charges against the farm’s owners, who were successfully prosecuted and ordered in 2011 to pay $234,000 in fines and forfeit more than $2.7 million. They did not get prison sentences, but were sentenced to probation. The company also pled guilty to harboring illegal immigrants.

Michigan State Police and Huron County Sheriff’s Office both worked on the investigation, which made them eligible to receive the funds obtained from the probe under the federal government’s asset-forfeiture program, which applies to assets obtained from criminal activity.

The State Police and Huron County agencies received ceremonial checks in the amounts of $250,652 and $35,807, according to the Free Press.