UPDATE: State financing $250M for Interstate 69 segment
The project will upgrade much of the existing Indiana 37 to interstate standards for the I-69 extension that is planned to eventually connect Indianapolis and Evansville.
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Pence, Ritz seek federal dollars without strings
Last Monday, Superintendent Glenda Ritz filed a request to continue using federal "Title I" education money with flexibility. A day later, Gov. Mike Pence asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to grant the state an exemption, and about $16.5 billion, to expand Medicaid using a version of the Healthy Indiana Plan.
Quest for development grant sparks infighting in Nashville
The town is one of six finalists to be a Stellar Community, which brings money and support to help spur economic development. But not everyone is happy with how the application process has gone.
Developer pulls plug on $300M Tipton wind farm
A Colorado-based developer said the project is no longer feasible because of conditions that a zoning board placed on the project.
Express Scripts cuts payments for customized drugs
The nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, is dramatically scaling back its coverage of compounded medications, saying most of the custom-mixed medicines are ineffective or overpriced.
Kokomo doctor gets 2 years for overprescribing
Don Wagoner, his wife and two other doctors were arrested last year on narcotics charges connected to clinics in Kokomo and Burlington. State officials say at least a dozen patients died from drug-related complications.
Afghanistan subcontractor cheated workers, suit says
Federal investigators are examining whether a military subcontractor from Indiana underpaid scores of medical workers in Afghanistan, pocketing federal funds that the government intended the company use to pay its employees.
Vectren selling its coal-mining subsidiary for $296M
One of Indiana's largest natural-gas utilities is selling its coal-mining subsidiary to a southern Indiana-based coal-mining company, putting more than 800 coal miners' jobs at risk.
Work resumes at Indiana GM plant after fatal explosion
Employees have returned to work at a General Motors metal-stamping plant in Marion following a chemical explosion that killed a contractor and injured several others.
Counties worry about cost of criminal code changes
Sweeping changes to Indiana's criminal code took effect Tuesday that will send more low-level, nonviolent criminals to community corrections programs and jails instead of state prisons.
Supreme Court lets other birth-control cases stand
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed that its decision a day earlier extending religious rights to closely held corporations applies broadly to the contraceptive coverage requirement in the new health care law.
New Under Armour line excites Notre Dame fans
The contract, which makes the company Notre Dame's official outfitter, is reportedly the largest deal in the history of college athletics.
Key aide to Pence heading back to private sector
Gov. Mike Pence announced Monday that Deputy Chief of Staff Marilee Springer would be returning to Indianapolis law firm Ice Miller.
Indiana requests new No Child Left Behind waiver
At stake is control over a portion of the more than $200 million in federal "Title I" education funding that Indiana receives each year.
Obama lauds former CEO as right choice to fix VA
A former Army captain, Robert McDonald would bring a blend of corporate and military experience to a bureaucracy reeling from revelations of chronic, system-wide failure and veterans dying while on long waiting lists for treatment.
High court: Public union can’t make nonmembers pay fees
The ruling is a setback for labor unions that have bolstered their ranks — and bank accounts — in Illinois and other states by signing up hundreds of thousands of in-home care workers.
Justices: Some employers don’t have to cover birth control
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.
GOP bucking business priorities on Capitol Hill
Traditional ties between the business community and the Republican Party are fraying in Washington, D.C., where the House GOP has bucked corporate interests on a series of priorities this year, from immigration to highway funding to trade.
UPDATE: Butler warns students, staff, alums of data breach
The school says the exposed information includes birthdates, social security numbers and bank account information of about 163,000 students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Obama taps business exec to oversee troubled VA
President Barack Obama plans to nominate former Procter & Gamble executive and Indiana native Robert McDonald as the next Veterans Affairs secretary, as the White House seeks to shore up an agency beset by problems.