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Ballard plans new redevelopment effort for Market Square site
Mayor Greg Ballard, in his annual State of the City speech scheduled for Friday, plans to call for new proposals for the downtown site that previously was home to Market Square Arena. The city expects the proposals to include a high-rise building with a major retail component.
REVIEW: Walt Disney World, Universal Studios revisited
With both the 2010 opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal’s Islands of Adventure and 2012’s New Fantasyland expansion at Walt Disney World, families with theme-park inklings have even more reasons to visit — or revisit — Orlando.
Traveling Indiana? Here’s a look at what’s new and improved
Need some incentives to travel in-state for your next getaway? Looking for something new? Here’s a rundown of some of what’s been added — or improved — on Indiana’s destinations menu.
Golf business heats up thanks to 2012 drought
Positives can be hard to find in a record-breaking drought. However, for most of the roughly 430 golf courses in Indiana, last summer’s scorcher was actually good for business.
SKARBECK: Don’t get overly excited about new index records
The frenzy surrounding a new market high tends to raise the blood pressure in investors. It seems to stimulate a feeling that they need to “do something.”
HICKS: Economy will get worse before it gets better
The dramatic reintroduction of payroll taxes makes this year’s tax increase most injurious to the working poor and the lower-to-middle-income families.
Lawsuit claims BMV overcharged Indiana residents by millions
A newly-filed lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles of "systematically" overcharging state residents by tens of millions of dollars for driver's licenses.
Drunk-driving crackdown planned
Police throughout Indiana plan a 17-day effort to crack down on drunken driving starting Friday. The campaign, called “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over," is aimed at preventing drunk driving during March sporting events and St. Patrick's Day. The effort runs through March 24. State troopers plan sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols. Indiana had nearly 6,300 alcohol-related crashes last year with 97 fatalities.
City sees string of bus crashes
School buses were involved in three crashes in the city Thursday morning, including one involving injuries. Ambulances took four children to Riley Hospital for Children after an Indianapolis Public Schools bus was involved in a crash at about 8 a.m. on the northeast side. The students suffered what are believed to be minor head injuries. A Pike Township bus carrying two students collided with a car on the northwest side, and another IPS bus crashed on the northeast side. No injuries were reported in those crashes.
Police seek suspect in father’s death
Indianapolis police are trying to determine who killed a local man, possibly in front of his children. The body of David McMiller, 28, was discovered Wednesday afternoon in his Lynhurst Park Apartment on the southwest side. Investigators believe the victim had been shot or stabbed. His three children, ages 4 and under, were home at the time of the incident.
Weekly unemployment-aid applications fall
The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell to a seasonally adjusted 340,000 last week, driving down the four-week average to its lowest level in five years.
Lawmakers struggle with bill to stop synthetic drug sales
Lawmakers are finding it difficult to write a law that effectively cracks down on the sale of synthetic drugs while remaining fair to businesses that might not know they’re on their shelves.
REVIEW: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful.’ Yellow brick roadkill
I didn’t expect it to rival “The Wizard of Oz.” I did hope it would be better than “The Wiz.”
Indy’s new soccer team blowing sales expectations ‘out of the water’
Still 13 months from kickoff, sales are so brisk that team officials think they may sell out of season tickets for their inaugural season.
Census: Hamilton County has high commuting rate
New U.S. Census Bureau figures show that central Indiana's Hamilton County has one of the nation's highest ratios of residents who travel to another county for work.
Indianapolis firm seeks oil in north-central Indiana
Indianapolis-based CountryMark hopes an Indiana oil field that once was the largest in the United States can be lucrative again.
Senate budget leader: Schools, roads need boost
Indiana lawmakers have been aggressive in cutting taxes in recent years, the state Senate's top budget writer said Thursday as his committee started reviewing a spending plan that leaves out Republican Gov. Mike Pence's proposed 10-percent income tax cut.
Owner plans redevelopment for Virginia Avenue buildings
The owner of three vacant buildings along Virginia Avenue between Pennsylvania and Delaware streets hopes to develop one of them with five apartments and first-floor retail, recruit retail and office users for a second, and tear down a third to make way for parking.
Judge turns away challenge to smoking ordinance
A federal judge has denied a challenge by bar owners to a smoking ordinance passed last year by the Indianapolis-Marion County City-County Council.