April 27, 2013
Democratic City-County Councilor Vop Osili said he expects to draft a “ban the box” ordinance this spring or summer.
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April 16, 2013
Associated PressIndianapolis will increase security at upcoming events such as the 500 Festival Mini-Marathon and Komen Race for the Cure,
but spectators likely won't notice the changes, Troy Riggs said.
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April 16, 2013
Associated PressIndianapolis Motor Speedway officials and Indiana State Police feel good about their security plan for this year's Indy
500 and won't remove trash cans from the track in response to deadly blasts at the Boston Marathon.
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March 6, 2013
Associated PressLocal officials from around Indiana are making a push for the Legislature to require that people obtain a doctor's prescription
to buy cold medications often used to make methamphetamine.
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February 27, 2013
Associated PressIndianapolis Metro Police Department Sgt. Linda Jackson said Wednesday that heavy smoke damage had increased the damages from
an early estimate of $15,000.
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January 16, 2013
Associated PressA sweeping plan to overhaul Indiana's criminal sentencing laws cleared its first hurdle in the Legislature on Wednesday
with the support of law-enforcement groups that had scuttled similar efforts the past two years.
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January 8, 2013
Associated PressSen. Jim Banks of Columbia City has proposed allowing students to carry firearms on Indiana's public university campuses.
Sen. Dennis Kruse of Auburn wants a bill that would exempt guns made exclusively in Indiana from federal rules and regulations.
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September 18, 2012
Associated PressDavid "Troy" Riggs, who was officially named public safety director of Indianapolis on Tuesday, said he wants to increase
the number of police officers on city streets.
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September 13, 2012
J.K. WallFormer sheriffs Frank Anderson and Jack Cottey are each being paid $35,000 per year by the Marion County Sheriff's Department
for advice and work on budgeting, jail operations and other issues.
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September 5, 2012
Associated PressThree state senators say Indiana's attorney general effectively nullified their votes when he opted not to defend sections
of a state immigration law he said were rendered invalid when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down similar sections of an Arizona
law.
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April 18, 2012
Associated PressA fresh revelation about the mishandling of evidence in a fatal crash involving an Indianapolis police officer prompted the
city's police chief, Paul Ciesielski, to step down Tuesday, and left Public Safety Director Frank Straub being grilled
by a city-county committee Wednesday night.
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March 7, 2012
Associated PressLegislators finished work Wednesday without an agreement yet on just how comprehensive a statewide smoking ban they might
adopt and without the support of a major police group for a proposal laying out when residents might be legally justified
in using force against police officers.
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January 30, 2012
Associated PressIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a law Monday giving prosecutors more tools to battle human sex trafficking ahead of this
weekend's Super Bowl.
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January 14, 2012
Associated PressLegislators stung last year by county prosecutors who opposed a sweeping plan to overhaul Indiana's criminal sentencing scheme
won't push the issue this year. Sheriffs now are worried that an attempt to reduce crowding in state prisons could aggravate
overpopulation in their jails.
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October 1, 2011
Francesca JaroszThe Republican mayor says he curbed crime, made government transparent, and pushed for property tax reform. His Democratic
challenger says Ballard didn’t make good on repealing an income tax increase, hiring hundreds of police officers, or
making education a top priority.
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August 31, 2011
Scott OlsonLincoln Plowman, also a former Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department major, is accused of using his official position
to collect $6,000 for helping to grease the wheels for a new strip club.
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August 30, 2011
Francesca JaroszOfficials from the Marion County Sheriff’s Department say they are concerned that a $10 million gap in this year’s
budget will hurt their ability to pay critical bills.
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August 24, 2011
Francesca JaroszThe state is launching an initiative aimed at helping ex-offenders find jobs, particularly with large businesses that tend
to have the most trepidation about hiring them.
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August 6, 2011
Cory SchoutenTerry Curry expects his creation of a task force will start paying off with new cases—ranging from employee theft and
investment fraud to political corruption—in the next few months.
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June 20, 2011
Associated PressA federal judge grilled an attorney for the state of Indiana on Monday about the state's new immigration law, questioning
how police would enforce the law and saying one of its provisions conflicts with federal law.
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June 16, 2011
Maurice Spagnoletti, a former president and CEO of Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bancorp's central Indiana operations, was
gunned down on Wednesday. He had been an executive of Doral Bank in Puerto Rico for about six months.
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June 6, 2011
Indianapolis' Community Crime Prevention Board awarded a total of $1.7 million in grants, down from $4 million last year,
due to the city budget crunch.
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May 20, 2011
Kathleen McLaughlinA smaller budget and new selection process for Indianapolis’ crime-prevention grant program has thrown some local not-for-profits
for a loop.
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April 12, 2011
Associated PressDaniels had made revamping of the criminal sentencing laws one of his top priorities for this year's legislative session,
but lawmakers handling the bill said Tuesday they hadn't been able to reach a compromise and didn't expect more action
before the General Assembly's April 29 adjournment deadline.
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April 6, 2011
Associated PressAn Indiana legislator trying to find a compromise on a plan that Gov. Mitch Daniels originally pushed to help stem the state's
prison costs seems to still have work ahead.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.