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Indianapolis police officers discovered a dead body about 4:45 a.m. Wednesday after being called to a home in the 4500 block of Golden Meadow Court on the northwest side of the city. Police are withholding the identity of the deceased and cause of death in the early stages of their investigation.
A train derailed near Rockville and Girls School roads early Wednesday morning, sending about 18 cars off the tracks. Emergency officials said all of the cars remained upright and no chemicals or dangerous materials leaked from the train. No crossings were blocked and nobody was injured.
Five people have died from the flu in Marion County over the past week, health officials said Wednesday, bringing the total death toll in the state this season to 40. The Indiana State Department of Health said 38 of the victims had underlying medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, asthma or renal disease. Thirty-three of the individuals were older than 65 and two were younger than 18.
Paul C. Bateman Jr., a former Democrat city-county councilor, agreed to plead guilty Wednesday to 13 counts of money laundering and wire fraud for his part in defrauding an Indianapolis physician of $1.7 million.
The chairman of the Indiana Senate's Education Committee says he's working on a compromise to a bill that would pull the state from the Common Core State Standards national education initiative.
Fair Finance bankruptcy trustee Brian Bash, charged with recovering funds for Fair investors, alleges in a court filing that National Lampoon funded convicted Ponzi schemer Tim Durham’s defense. Durham is a former CEO of the film company.
The Indiana Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee unanimously passed legislation Tuesday meant to makes the state’s job-creation efforts more open to the general public.
Though Allison Melangton has been tagged to lead the effort to bring the Super Bowl back to Indianapolis in 2018, she has no plans to take a page—or even a paragraph—from the 2012 bid.
Indianapolis investment firm E&A Industries has acquired a fast-growing New York apparel firm specializing in body-slimming fashions, the companies announced Tuesday.
Marion County property-tax appeals from the 2012 assessment are due Monday and will add to a backlog of roughly 27,000 existing appeals from previous years that the office is continuing to wade through.
With more than 2,000 members attending monthly events organized by chapters in Indianapolis, Bloomington and West Lafayette, tech entrepreneurship group Verge is poised to expand, outgoing executive director Matt Hunckler says.
The Indianapolis-based health insurer earned $464 million, or $1.51 per share, in the fourth quarter, a 38-percent leap from a year ago, and topped analysts’ forecasts by 8 cents per share.
Gov. Mike Pence used his first State of the State address Tuesday night to lobby for a personal income tax cut, an expansion of Indiana's school voucher system and improved vocational training.
Greenwood-based Elona Biotechnologies Inc., which has been trying to bring a generic version of insulin to market, was declared in default on $8.4 million in incentives from the city of Greenwood.
Ball State University has pulled its sponsorship of seven Indiana charter schools plagued by long-running academic woes, including one in Indianapolis.
An Indianapolis family of five was displaced Tuesday morning after a fire ripped through their southwest-side home. Firefighters arrived on the scene in the 1400 block of Kappes Street about 7 a.m. and found heavy fire and thick black smoke. The homeowners told firefighters they left all four stovetop burners on high in order to help heat the home during a morning when outside temperatures were in the low single digits. The fire broke out about 10 minutes later, they said.
A faulty electrical conductor near 116th Street and Allisonville Road left more than 1,600 Duke Energy Corp. customers in Fishers without power overnight. The outage knocked out lights at several intersections and forced a Kroger store to close. The problem was reported about 2:50 a.m. and resolved by 5 a.m.
Indianapolis Power & Light said ratepayers could expect a 2-percent to 3-percent annual increase for a “number of years,” but said he did not know how long the increases would be in effect.
Gina Sheets said she's working on new ideas and keeping her eye on farm-related issues in the General Assembly.
