Hoosier entrepreneurs make magazine’s billionaires list
Bill Cook, Dean White, Jim Irsay and Herb Simon have made Forbes magazine’s annual list of the richest people
in the world.
Bill Cook, Dean White, Jim Irsay and Herb Simon have made Forbes magazine’s annual list of the richest people
in the world.
Jim Tellus, the 47-year-old general manager of local NBC affiliate WTHR-TV Channel 13, died suddenly this week.
Centaur LLC, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, plans to sell its Colorado casino. Much of its debt
was incurred to upgrade
Hoosier Park in Anderson and add its slots parlor.
Indianapolis-based Centaur LLC, owner of Hoosier Park horse track and casino in Anderson, filed for Chapter 11 reorganization
on Sunday. The company’s casino, racing and hotel operations will continue without interruption, it said.
The Labor Department figures suggest the job market is slowly healing but that significant hiring has yet to occur.
Ann
Lathrop's interactions with the Indiana Pacers and Indianapolis Colts aren't what she might have envisioned as a young
college student pursuing a career in sports medicine. Now president of the city's Capital Improvement Board, her relations
with the teams are tied to their financial conditions rather than the health of their players.
Corporate contributions, volunteerism help shore up struggling city department after recession-driven cuts reduce budget by
nearly one-fifth.
Turner Woodard has purchased the historic Canterbury Hotel on South Illinois Street. He said the hotel fits his vision of
turning around properties and making them profitable.
Construction spending fell for a third straight month in January as a slight rebound in housing was not enough to offset widespread
weakness in a number of commercial areas.
Executives of Gen Con, one of the city's largest conventions, visited Indianapolis last week to get their first glance
of the construction of the Indiana Convention Center expansion. Local tourism officials are using such tours to market the
larger space.
The two sides held their latest round of negotiations in an Indianapolis hotel ballroom as the league’s annual scouting combine
began.
The ongoing smoking-ban debate is getting a new spark from convention leaders trying to light a fire under
lawmakers, who have been reluctant to approve the kind of comprehensive smoking ban that
health—and now tourism—officials say is needed here.
What’s happen off court at the Big Ten Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments could be as interesting as what happens on.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but in the case of the Marriott Place hotel complex, foresight was just as clear.
A National Collegiate Athletic Association posse will be supplemented by local police officers in search of unlicensed T-shirts
and other memorabilia.
Heritage Food Service Equipment Inc. will begin hiring in March, as a $1.5 million upgrade to its 125,000-square-foot facility
is completed.
Milwaukee landmark offers innovative connection to the arts. Why not follow its lead?
Tired of partisan politics, Sen. Evan Bayh told a standing-room-only crowd at an Indianapolis news conference Monday afternoon
that he will
eschew reelection and wants to “serve society in another way.”