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IPFW cutting 41 jobs to help close $8.4M deficit

Administrators expect the job cuts to save $2.2 million. Other savings will come through a 2-percent tuition increase next fall, a pay freeze and cuts in activities, utilities and services.

Butler announces move to new Big East conference

Butler University, Creighton and Xavier will join the so-called Catholic 7 schools in the new basketball conference, the schools announced Wednesday. The conference agreed to play its men’s basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden for the next three years.

Rally denounces proposed Indiana voucher expansion

A proposal to expand Indiana's private school voucher program was denounced during a Statehouse rally on Tuesday as a step that would take millions of dollars away from the state's public schools.

Q&A: New symphony CEO preaches access, innovation

Gary Ginstling is taking over an organization trying to address four years of deficits and a shrinking endowment. Days into his new post, the CEO of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra talks with IBJ about priorities, fundraising and keeping musicians engaged.

Hovey Street convict flees work release

A man convicted in a botched Indianapolis home robbery that left two women and two children dead has been arrested after failing to report from work-release detail. Indianapolis police arrested 30-year-old Tommy Warren on Monday afternoon after finding him hiding in a north-side home. Warren was sentenced in 2010 to 10 years in prison on a conspiracy conviction for his role in the January 2008 Hovey Street killings of Andrea Yarrell and Gina Hunt, both 24, and their children, 5-month-old Charlii Daye-Yarrell and 23-month-old Jordan Hunt. Four other men were sentenced in the crime.

City launches online pothole tool

The Indianapolis Department of Public Works launched an online tool Tuesday that will allow the public to report, locate and check the status of potholes across the city. Indy’s Pothole Viewer shows all pothole repair requests received by the city on a map. Red dots indicate requests that are still being serviced, and green dots indicate potholes that have been repaired. So far in March, DPW has repaired 929 potholes.

Boy nabbed after Carmel car theft, chase

A 14-year-old boy was arrested early Tuesday morning after he allegedly stole a car and led police on a chase in Carmel. Police say the boy took an unlocked and running Hyundai Sonata parked in the 1200 block of Golfview Drive at about 6 a.m. Police saw the car near Rangeline Road and 126th Street and gave chase. The suspect drove into a dead-end road and flipped the vehicle onto its side. He fled on foot but was caught with help from a police dog.

Proposed Indiana reservoir would face several reviews

Indiana's Department of Homeland Security and several divisions of the Department of Natural Resources would have to review the 2,000-acre reservoir proposal, as would the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Kenley drops out as sponsor of mass-transit bill

Already skeptical of a mass-transit plan for the Indianapolis metro area, influential Sen. Luke Kenley said he decided it was inappropriate to be listed as a sponsor without giving the bill his unqualified support.

Daniels cuts merit raises of top Purdue staff

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels on Monday eliminated merit raises for administrators earning more than $50,000 annually over the next two years in the first in a series of cost-cutting moves to cover the estimated $40 million cost of freezing tuition rates through 2015.

Centre Properties puts 3 strip centers into Chapter 11

The Indianapolis developer said the bankruptcy filings are intended to prevent lender Bank of America from forcing the sale of RiverPlace Shops in Fishers, Raceway Market Shops in Indianapolis and Greenwood Crossing in Greenwood.