Fair director keeping job despite investigation findings

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana State Fair's executive director will be keeping her job despite a report critical of the fair's emergency response plan ahead of last summer's deadly stage collapse.

Fair commission Chairman Andre Lacy says executive director Cindy Hoye had offered to resign but that he believed she should remain in her position leading the staff of the state-owned fairgrounds and the annual state fair.

Lacy says the fair leadership has much to learn and improve upon.

A review by Washington-based Witt Associates given to the commission Thursday found that the fair's overall state of preparedness was not adequate for an event of its size and scope.

Seven people were killed and dozens of others injured by the Aug. 13 collapse before a scheduled concert by country duo Sugarland.