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Daytona 500 gets green light despite horrific accident

Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood said the track will “be ready to go racing” in time for Sunday’s Daytona 500, following an accident Saturday that injured fans and drivers.

Union workers at Goshen’s Cequent plant take severance deal

The trailer-hitch manufacturer plans to close the 450-employee plant and move operations to Mexico. Union workers voted Friday to forego arbitration and accept a severance agreement that will pay the most senior employees $36,000.

Cost concerns linger for state sentencing overhaul

A plan to overhaul Indiana’s criminal sentencing laws is moving through the Legislature with broad bipartisan support, although some county officials are worried it will shift costs to the local level.

Daniels to co-chair space panel

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels has joined a panel that will make recommendations about the future of the nation's space program. Daniels will serve as co-chairman through June 30, 2014, on the Committee on Human Spaceflight. Its purpose is to review the space program's long-term goals and direction.
 

First lady to promote state bicentennial

Karen Pence, wife of Gov. Mike Pence, will be ambassador for the 2016 Indiana Bicentennial Commission. She will work with communities and organizations on events marking the 200th anniversary of statehood. The commission is led by former Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman and former congressman Lee Hamilton.

 

Record year for deer hunters

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says hunters took advantage of changes in equipment regulations and extra dates to kill a state record 136,248 deer last year. The previous record was 134,004, in 2010. Those changes included making crossbows legal for all licensed hunters during archery season and increasing the archery season by seven days.
 

Marsh closing stores in Marion, Columbus

The locally based grocery chain said it is shutting down the stores rather than renew leases. Following the closings, Marsh will have 91 stores in Indiana and Ohio.

Collectors snap up Bush Stadium’s salvaged seats

Indianapolis sports fans and collectors lined up Thursday to buy seats salvaged from Bush Stadium, snapping up more than 300 in the first day of the three-day sale — six times as many as organizer People for Urban Progress had expected for the entire offering.

Dow AgroSciences wins bid to overturn pesticide guidelines

Indianapolis-based Dow Agrosciences LLC and two other pesticide makers won a bid to overturn U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service proposals to protect salmon when an appeals court found the agency’s decision “arbitrary and capricious.”

GOP House blocks Dems’ push for Pence tax-cut vote

House Republicans blocked a vote Thursday on Gov. Mike Pence's proposed tax cut, fending off — at least for now — an attempt by Democrats to force them into the awkward position of rejecting one of the new GOP governor's top legislative priorities.

Indiana House backs school voucher expansion

Kindergartners and some other students in Indiana would be immediately eligible for the state's private school voucher program under an expansion plan the House approved Thursday.

Factory workers struggling to bounce back

Thousands of Indiana’s rank-and-file factory workers have seen their earnings lose ground to that of white-collar workers. The gap has grown even as manufacturers expect their assembly-line workers to have more skills and more advanced education.