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President Obama will greet the Indiana Fever at the White House on Friday afternoon to honor the team’s championship in the Woman’s National Basketball Association. After meeting with the president, Fever players will lead a basketball clinic on the South Lawn with schoolchildren. The Fever won their first WNBA title in October.
The USA Cricket Association, a group that Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard hopes will bring high-level competition to a new $6 million local sports park, staged zero national tournaments in 2012.
Local businessman Turner Woodard had owned the upscale downtown hotel since 2010. Terms of the deal with Columbus, Ohio-based RockBridge Capital LLC, a hotel investment firm, were not disclosed.
After overseeing 15 years of massive growth via mergers, Vince Caponi will become an executive of St. Vincent Health’s parent organization.
The head of the Indiana Department of Transportation is looking to join former Gov. Mitch Daniels at Purdue University.
Anderson Elks Lodge 209 wants to auction off its building at 1803 Broadway St. The lodge has about 260 members, a sharp decline from the nearly 2,000 members it boasted in the 1970s.
Single-family building permits rose 23 percent in the nine-county Indianapolis area in May, the 11th straight month of year-over-year increases.
Baltimore-based Atapco Properties wants to redevelop 34 acres of land at Carmel Drive and Guilford Road, converting a portion of the commercial property to residential use with hundreds of apartments.
Pence sent a letter to legislators urging them to uphold his veto of a local tax measure. The measure retroactively approves taxes collected by Jackson and Pulaski counties to pay for new jails.
Duke Energy said that its $3.5 billion, high-tech 618-megawatt plant near Vincennes will produce 10 times as much power as a former plant but emit about 70 percent less pollution.
In an explosive new lawsuit, Tomisue Hilbert has accused hardware store owner and former business partner John Menard of pressuring her to have sex with him and then retaliating against her and her husband Steve when she refused.
Two prominent downtown office buildings, the Landmark Center at 1099 N. Meridian St. and the historic Century Building at 36 S. Pennsylvania St., are among properties listed for a July 17 sheriff's sale.
Geis Properties, a division of Streetsboro, Ohio-based Geis Cos., purchased the 558,000-square-foot building for $16.5 million late last month from AT&T, which is reducing its downtown presence.
While Bloomington-based medical-device maker won approval for new bile duct stent, it has recalled its hot-selling arterial stent from all global markets.
Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health has chosen Russell Williams as its next chief operating officer, replacing Brett Lee, who left suddenly two years ago. Williams will join Riley on July 15 after serving most recently as vice president of operations at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Minnesota. He previously oversaw construction of a children’s hospital for Fairview Health Services, which includes the University of Minnesota academic medical center. Williams earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and a master's of healthcare administration from the University of Minnesota.
Dr. John Chappo, a hospitalist who cares for patients staying overnight in hospitals, has joined Danville-based Hendricks Regional Health. He holds a bachelor’s in biochemistry from Indiana University and an osteopathic medicine degree from the Kansas City University School of Medicine and Biosciences.
An independent review of Indiana's ISTEP test results is under way one month after computer troubles disrupted test-taking for thousands of students this spring.
State Bureau of Motor Vehicle branches will be closed Saturday so the Indiana Office of Technology staff can complete a major maintenance project on the state’s computer system. The myBMV.com website also will be down Saturday after 6 a.m. Branches will resume normal hours next week. The Department of Natural Resources said the work will prevent sales of hunting and fishing licenses Saturday.
Affiliates of Planned Parenthood in Indiana and Kentucky plan to merge on July 1 in an effort to pool resources, meet the challenges of the changing health care landscape, and potentially expand their reproductive-health services. The new not-for-profit is expected to be named Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky—or PPINK—and continue to operate the 28 existing health centers, with 26 of those in Indiana. Three of those Indiana centers perform abortions, but the Kentucky centers do not. The group will be based in Indianapolis, and employ 190 people in its health centers and administrative office. Betty Cockrum, president and CEO of the Indiana organization, will serve in the same role for the merged group. Mergers are common among the Planned Parenthood affiliates, according to the organization. At one time, the national Planned Parenthood family had more than 200 affiliates; there are now just 73. PPIN merged multiple times to become a statewide affiliate in 2004.
Indiana University Health has agreed to sell its eight occupational health clinics to a California-based chain that specializes in Workers' Compensation cases. US HealthWorks Medical Group, which already operates nearly 200 clinics in 17 states, agreed in May to acquire the eight clinics from IU Health, the largest hospital system in Indiana. The deal is expected to close before July. Neither entity disclosed the purchase price. US HealthWorks has offered jobs to 126 of the clinics' 149 workers. IU Health, which will maintain a role in serving clinic patients, has offered positions to 20 of those not hired by US HealthWorks and is working to place the remaining workers. US HealthWorks has been expanding rapidly even as the number of workers' comp cases trends down nationally. US HealthWorks operates occupational health clinics in Elkhart, Goshen, Muncie and Warsaw.
Franciscan St. Francis Health will close two After-Hours Clinics on the south side of Indianapolis at month’s end. The hospital system offered no explanation for the closures. It noted that it will keep operating a third After-Hours Clinic in Mooresville, and also will maintain two other immediate care clinics in the southern suburbs of Indianapolis. The clinics that will close are in Beech Grove at 2030 Churchman Ave. and near Franciscan’s Indianapolis hospital at 7855 S. Emerson Ave.
The state of Indiana plans to spend $37 million more each year reimbursing health care providers who treat Medicaid patients, partially reversing a 5-percent rate cut the state adopted in 2010 while struggling through the impacts of the national recession. A spokeswoman for Gov. Mike Pence said the increase would amount to 2 percent more for hospitals, nursing facilities, home health and immediate care providers. Cuts in how much the state Medicaid plan pays for dental, vision, medical transportation and other areas will be fully restored. The Legislature paid for the increased rates in their recently passed, $30 billion biennial budget.
Marian University in Indianapolis has announced it has reached its limit of 162 students for the incoming class of its new College of Osteopathic Medicine. School officials said they have received tuition deposits from 162 applicants. They say those students can still pursue their education elsewhere, but the school has a waiting list. They said they are confident they can fill any vacancies that arise.
The Indiana Blood Center is streamlining its blood mobile operations, closing a donor center and taking other cost-cutting measures in response to shrinking revenue from hospitals. The not-for-profit blood center announced June 4 that demand from hospitals has fallen 24 percent over the past year. That is forcing it to take steps that also include freezing management salaries, eliminating 45 positions, and discontinuing a therapeutic phlebotomy program. The blood center supplies more than 60 Indiana hospitals. It is funded by fees it charges those facilities to recruit donors and collect, test, process, label, store and distribute blood.
Indiana State Excise Police officers arrested 30 people on 35 charges Sunday night during the Zac Brown Band concert at Klipsch Music Center in Noblesville. Most of the arrests were for underage drinking. Last month at Klipsch, police arrested 54 people at a Brad Paisley show, 64 at a May Day music event, and 52 at a Tim McGraw concert.
Two men robbed an Indianapolis woman of her car early Sunday morning after she arrived home from doing laundry. Claudia Edwards said she had just parked her 2003 Honda Accord at Port of Call Apartments, north of Rockville Road and east of Interstate 465, at about 12:30 a.m. when the men ran up to the car. She said one man put a gun to her head and demanded the keys, while the other held on to her 7-year-old daughter. Police are still searching for the vehicle.
