AP News

Purdue: Student inventors own intellectual rights

February 8, 2013
Associated Press
Purdue University is opening up intellectual property rights to student-inventors who make technological breakthroughs using university resources.
More

Indiana House education panel OKs voucher expansion

February 7, 2013
Associated Press
The measure would remove a one-year waiting period students have to spend in public school before qualifying for a voucher and qualify wealthier families for the program in certain cases.
More

Lawmakers sideline same-sex marriage ballot until 2014

February 7, 2013
Associated Press
Indiana's Republican House and Senate leaders said Thursday they will wait a year before they take up an effort to write a same-sex marriage ban into the state's constitution.
More

Wal-Mart revisits plan for Greenwood store

February 7, 2013
Associated Press
A retail giant that lost its bid to build a store in Greenwood nearly a decade ago is hoping local leaders look more favorably on a new proposal to erect a smaller store at the same site.
More

Craft brewers stay neutral on Sunday alcohol sales

February 7, 2013
Associated Press
Indiana's craft breweries account for only a tiny percentage of annual statewide beer sales, but they've enjoyed a sweet spot on Sundays for the past two-plus years.
More

Indiana Senate panel delays Rockport plant hearing

February 7, 2013
Associated Press
Senate Utilities Committee chairman Sen. Jim Merritt said Thursday he's delayed until next week a hearing on the bill involving Indiana Gasification LLC's planned $2.8 billion plant in the Ohio River city of Rockport.
More

Pence rules out Medicaid expansion in current form

February 6, 2013
Associated Press
Gov. Mike Pence said Wednesday that he has ruled out expanding Medicaid under the federal health care law unless Indiana gets approval to use state health savings accounts for the expansion.
More

House GOP considers Indy preschool as model

February 6, 2013
Associated Press
House Republican leaders toured an Indianapolis preschool Wednesday, one day before the House Education Committee takes up a proposal to give preschool vouchers to low-income families in a small number of cases.
More

Bill limiting Indiana specialty auto plates advances

February 6, 2013
Associated Press
The state lawmaker trying to overhaul Indiana's specialty auto license plate system said Wednesday he believed a compromise has been reached on changes.
More

Mayor to take control of four struggling Indy schools

February 6, 2013
Associated Press
The Indiana State Board of Education is handing authority over four troubled Indianapolis schools to the city's mayor.
More

Judge OKs sale of Indiana's oldest ethanol plant

February 6, 2013
Associated Press
A joint venture bought the New Energy Corp. plant at auction last week for $2.5 million. New Energy had hoped the auction would cover the company's $54 million in debt. A large portion of that debt is owed to the U.S. Department of Energy, which guaranteed the original loans.
More

Postal Service plans to eliminate Saturday delivery

February 6, 2013
Associated Press
The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to deliver packages six days a week under a plan aimed at saving about $2 billion annually, the financially struggling agency says.
More

Indiana Senate backs cursive writing requirement

February 5, 2013
Associated Press
Senators voted 36-13 Tuesday in favor of the proposal despite arguments from some senators that it represents an unwarranted mandate from the state on local school districts.
More

Bill relaxing state superintendent rules advances

February 5, 2013
Associated Press
The Indiana House has approved a bill that would end the requirement that local school superintendents hold a state superintendent's or teacher's license.
More

Pence supports large expansion of voucher program

February 5, 2013
Associated Press
Pence policy director Marilee Springer told members of the House education committee Tuesday that the governor supports a sweeping package of education changes that would end a one-year waiting period to obtain the scholarships.
More

Earlier online sales tax collection clears Indiana House

February 4, 2013
Associated Press
Amazon.com and other online-only retailers would have to start collecting Indiana's 7-percent sales tax this summer under a bill approved overwhelmingly by the Indiana House.
More

DePauw University gets $31M in donations

February 4, 2013
Associated Press
The founder of Lincoln Capital Management and his wife have donated $20 million to DePauw University to provide financial aid to students, part of $31 million in donations announced by the school in central Indiana.
More

Indiana agencies team up to battle unemployment fraud

February 4, 2013
Associated Press
The Marion County prosecutor's office is teaming with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development to prosecute people suspected of committing unemployment insurance fraud in Indiana.
More

Bill would crack down on sales to secondhand shops

February 4, 2013
Associated Press
Indiana lawmakers are considering a bill that would crack down on sales of stolen goods to the state's secondhand stores.
More

Indiana gun permit denials nearly double in 4 years

February 4, 2013
Associated Press
The number of  state residents whose gun permit requests were denied by the Indiana State Police has nearly doubled in the past four years amid an increase in permit applications.
More

Indiana officials look to boost agriculture research

February 3, 2013
Associated Press
The state's agriculture department under new Gov. Mike Pence is planning a push into the science behind food production by trying to build a network of university and commercial researchers for what's being called an Agriculture Innovation Corridor.
More

Ivy Tech to go after student debtors' tax refunds

February 3, 2013
Associated Press
Students who owe Ivy Tech Community College money will have their tax refunds diverted to cover the debt under a new policy the statewide college system is implementing.
More

BioTown still dependent on grid eight years later

February 3, 2013
Associated Press
Eight years after being nicknamed Biotown USA, the town of Reynolds is as dependent on the energy grid as it ever was, and is likely to become more so.
More

Indiana pulls support for proposed fertilizer plant

February 1, 2013
Associated Press
State officials have suspended their support for a proposed southwestern Indiana fertilizer plant while they investigate a Pakistani company involved in the project.
More

U.S. economy adds jobs, but unemployment rate rises

February 1, 2013
Associated Press
U.S. employers added 157,000 jobs in January, but the unemployment rate rose to 7.9 percent, up from 7.8 percent in December.
More
Page  << 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 >> pager
Sponsored by
ADVERTISEMENT

facebook - twitter on Facebook & Twitter

Follow on TwitterFollow IBJ on Facebook:
Follow on TwitterFollow IBJ's Tweets on these topics:
 
Subscribe to IBJ
ADVERTISEMENT