August 20, 2009
Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Inc. is considering Shelby County as the site for a massive new motorcycle plant.
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August 20, 2009
IBJ StaffHarley-Davidson Inc. officials were in Shelby County yesterday assessing it as a location for a new motorcycle plant, but
it isn’t yet clear how the county stacks up to other U.S. locales that also are in the running for the economic-development
prize.
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August 20, 2009
IBJ StaffThe number of Hoosiers who died on the job last year ticked up from the previous year. But the total still represents the
second-fewest workplace fatalities since the federal government began tracking the statistic in 1992, the Indiana Department
of Labor said today.
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August 19, 2009
IBJ Staff and Associated PressIndiana money manager Marcus Schrenker was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison today in Florida on charges that he deliberately
crashed his plane to fake his own death and flee financial ruin, according to the Pensacola News Journal.
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August 19, 2009
Scott OlsonRushville-based Omnicity Corp. said this morning that it plans to create 100 jobs there within the next three years by investing
$2.5 million in wireless infrastructure and a new corporate headquarters.
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August 19, 2009
IBJ StaffWest Lafayette furniture maker Chromcraft Revington Inc. narrowed its losses in the second quarter by shedding unprofitable
products, closing plants and reducing expenses, the company said yesterday.
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August 19, 2009
IBJ StaffAn Indiana money manager scheduled to be sentenced today in Florida on charges he deliberately crashed his plane to fake his
death and flee financial ruin now faces more charges in his home state.
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August 18, 2009
Cory SchoutenA Marion County jury this evening found Christopher P. White guilty of three Class C felonies related to a $500,000 bad check
he wrote last year in a last-ditch attempt to save his locally based development firm, Premier Properties USA Inc.
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August 18, 2009
J.K. WallEli Lilly and Co. pulled the plug on yet another drug in its pipeline that was in the late stages of testing, further complicating
the company’s attempts to find revenue before losing patent protection on its bestseller.
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August 18, 2009
IBJ StaffCommunity Health Network and the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township will open a new community health center inside
the Renaissance School, at 30th Street and Post Road in Indianapolis, the two organizations announced today.
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August 18, 2009
Scott OlsonA former chief financial officer for The Dodson Group has agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud after admitting to stealing
$422,539 from the Indianapolis-based firm.
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August 18, 2009
Cory SchoutenMarion County prosecutors this morning began making their case that Christopher P. White knowingly wrote a bad check for $500,000
last year in a desperate attempt to save his Indianapolis-based development firm, Premier Properties USA Inc.
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August 18, 2009
IBJ StaffTherametric Technologies Inc., a developer of dental health technology, said today it will locate its headquarters and manufacturing
operations in Noblesville, and plans to create 40 jobs by 2013.
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August 18, 2009
Scott OlsonThe Phoenix Group, a Greenwood-based supply-chain services company, said yesterday that it has added 15 employees within the
past month and plans to hire about 200 more workers by the end of 2010.
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August 17, 2009
IBJ StaffJames B. “Jim” Rentschler, former general manager at the University Club of Cincinnati, has been named general
manager of The Columbia Club.
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August 17, 2009
IBJ Staff and Associated PressNews that the Obama administration might be willing to drop the idea of a government-run health insurance
plan has given a big boost to Indianapolis-based insurer WellPoint Inc.
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August 17, 2009
Marc D. AllanA light touch and an eye for detail have brought Ron Henriksen riches and adventure in a humble life of deal-making. And at
age 70, he has no plans to stop.
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August 17, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinSeveral arts groups are expanding their presence in Hendricks County, undeterred by tight budgets and a perception that residents
need to travel to Indianapolis for cultural offerings.
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August 17, 2009
J.K. WallIn five years, Butler University President Bobby Fong wants to vault his school into the top 10 of the nation’s master’s
universities—schools that offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees but few doctorates.
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August 17, 2009
Riya V. AnandwalaEighteen students from Indianapolis’ Haughville neighborhood sold their wares— ranging from caps and sunglasses
to purses
to home-baked cookies—as part of a summer business-education program
for low-income youth.
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August 17, 2009
Cory SchoutenDavid A. Marsh, the former supermarket executive and current president of the Crystal Flash convenience store chain, could
lose his 11,800-square-foot mansion on Geist Reservoir over three defaulted loans.
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August 17, 2009
Anthony SchoettleMax Schumacher, now in his 52nd year with the Indians, runs a tight ship. His attention to detail and strategic thinking have
served the city's minor league baseball team well.
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August 17, 2009
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's messy split with Mario Venzago is not expected to hamstring its search for a new music
director.
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August 17, 2009
Anthony SchoettleMax Schumacher is healthy, feels good and wants to continue working for the Indianapolis Indians full time. But
with his 77th birthday approaching in October, Schumacher, chairman and president of the team, needs a succession plan.
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August 17, 2009
Cory SchoutenSafeco is leaving a five-building complex on North Meridian Street, and Eli Lilly and Co. has offered for lease its entire
four-building Faris campus.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.