MISSOURI

SPRINGFIELD — A small plane crashed on Saturday, killing three children and the owners of two businesses. State Highway Patrol spokesman Jason Pace said the plane went down about 12:30 a.m. near the town of Willard. He said the plane appeared to have been headed toward the Springfield airport when it crashed. The cause was not immediately known. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating. (AP)

INDIANA

Hundreds flee chemical fire

MISHAWAKA — Hundreds of northern Indiana residents fled their homes Saturday after a fire at a vacant factory released a large chemical cloud. The US Environmental Protection Agency let residents near the former Baycote plant in Mishawaka return home starting about 7 a.m. Firefighters said the building has been vacant since 2008, and this spring the EPA started cleaning up the site. Chemical sludge in a storage container caught fire, producing chemical vapor. Eight people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries. (AP)

MICHIGAN

Ford recalls some 2012 SUVs

DETROIT — Ford has announced a recall of some of its 2012 Edge sport utility vehicles because of concerns that the ­fuel line could leak and potentially cause a fire under the hood. The recall affects about 5,500 vehicles, all of which have 2-liter engines. The problem is caused by a part in the fuel line that could crack, a flaw that the company blamed on an error by a parts supplier. (AP)

ILLINOIS

Teen arrested in car bomb plot

CHICAGO — Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said Saturday. Adel Daoud, a US citizen from the Chicago suburb of Hillside, was arrested Friday night in an undercover operation in which agents pretending to be extremists provided him with a phony car bomb. The device was inert and the public was never at risk. (AP)