September 30, 2011
Associated PressFederal officials on Friday denied Indiana's request to use a state public health savings account to help cover the half-million
people who will become eligible for Medicaid in 2014, saying the request was premature and leaving the state program's
future in flux.
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September 30, 2011
Associated PressWork to repair an ailing Ohio River bridge shut down between Kentucky and Indiana will cost about $20 million, and it will
take about six months to fix and reopen the heavily traveled span.
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September 30, 2011
Associated PressThe Indiana Election Commission has dismissed — for now — a campaign finance complaint involving House Democrats
who staged a five-week walkout earlier this year.
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September 30, 2011
Associated PressMore than a year from Election Day, all sorts of Republicans, including Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, are making a point of
keeping themselves in the national spotlight, stoking speculation that they are potential running mates for the eventual
GOP presidential nominee.
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September 29, 2011
Associated PressWorkers taking voluntary buyouts will no longer be eligible for state unemployment benefits in Indiana beginning Saturday,
and severance pay will be counted against unemployment payouts.
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September 29, 2011
Associated PressAM General is laying off about 350 workers because of a cut in the number of Humvees it will make at its Mishawaka plant.
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September 29, 2011
Associated PressIndiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller's office said the new notices boost to 45 the total number of tort claims received to
date from victims of the deadly state fair stage collapse.
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September 29, 2011
Associated PressWeekly unemployment applications dropped 37,000, to a seasonally adjusted 391,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's
the lowest level since April 2 and the first time applications have fallen below 400,000 since Aug. 6.
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September 29, 2011
Associated PressThe U.S. economy grew slightly faster in the spring than previously estimated but remained dangerously weak in the face of
high unemployment and higher gas prices.
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September 28, 2011
Associated PressIndiana's attorney general says he'll fight a federal judge's ruling limiting Indiana's ban on political robo-calls
to in-state phone calls only.
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September 27, 2011
Associated PressA federal judge in Pittsburgh has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a Pittsburgh company that claimed its so-called "Bio
Cremation" service — a flameless process to cremate remains — was being unfairly targeted by two Indiana
competitors.
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September 27, 2011
Associated PressHill-Rom Holdings Inc., a medical-equipment company based in Indiana, agreed Tuesday to pay nearly $42 million to settle a
government lawsuit. The government had accused the company of knowingly submitting false claims to Medicare from 1999 to 2007.
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September 26, 2011
Associated PressAn Indiana law that caps the state's liability for damages at $5 million for a single event violates the U.S. and state
constitutions and should be thrown out, six plaintiffs suing over the deadly collapse of an Indiana State Fair stage argue
in a lawsuit filed Monday.
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September 26, 2011
Associated PressTwo Taiwanese trade groups have agreed to buy as much as $5 billion worth of corn and soybeans from Indiana and other states
in 2012 and 2013.
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September 26, 2011
Associated PressDuke Energy Corp. is preparing to demolish a coal-fired power plant that's Indiana's oldest electricity-generating
plant of its kind.
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September 26, 2011
IBJ Staff and Associated PressFrontier Airlines, a division of Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings Inc., plans to eliminate 213 jobs at Mitchell
International Airport in Milwaukee, where it is also cutting flights to several cities.
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September 23, 2011
IBJ Staff and Associated PressThe cancellations will cost the Indiana Pacers three preseason games, including home games Oct. 11 vs. the defending NBA champion
Dallas Mavericks and Oct. 15 against the Orlando Magic.
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September 23, 2011
Associated PressThe families of the seven people killed in the Indiana State Fair stage collapse will receive $35,000 each from a relief fund
that collected donations for the victims.
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September 22, 2011
Associated PressHandbag and luggage maker Vera Bradley Inc. says it plans to invest $22.5 million to nearly double the size of its Roanoke
distribution center in northeastern Indiana, creating up to 124 new jobs by 2015.
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September 22, 2011
Associated PressThe Indianapolis-based retailer's second-quarter profit rose 24 percent over year ago, to $20.9 million, helped by strong
sales in stores open at least a year.
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September 22, 2011
Associated PressStocks opened sharply lower Thursday, extending a rout around the world. Indicators across the financial markets suggested
investors were frightened that the global economy is in for a long slump.
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September 22, 2011
Associated PressIndiana House records show that more than $100,000 has been collected from the 39 Democrats whose five-week boycott blocked
legislative action.
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September 21, 2011
Associated PressAn Indiana trade delegation led by Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman is on its way to Japan after being delayed by a typhoon.
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September 21, 2011
Associated PressThe group overseeing redevelopment of a former Army chemical weapons depot in western Indiana is targeting major projects
for the 11-square-mile property.
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September 20, 2011
Associated PressCharlotte-based Duke Energy and Raleigh-based Progress Energy want to combine into one company with more than 7 million customers
in the Carolinas, Florida, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.
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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.