IPS launching free preschool education program
District officials say they hope to enroll about 1,400 4-year-olds in the program this month.
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District officials say they hope to enroll about 1,400 4-year-olds in the program this month.
Legislators will be busy drafting the state's biennial budget, pondering the restoration of education spending and looking for ways to pay for road projects.
A federal judge says former Indiana financier Tim Durham doesn't have to pay to appeal his conviction for swindling investors out of more than $200 million.
Indiana lawmakers will look at expanding what is already the nation's largest school voucher program when the General Assembly gets to work Monday despite concerns that the program is hurting public schools in big cities.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed the most sweeping food safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks in peanuts, cantaloupe and leafy greens.
The former office manager of a central Indiana manufacturing company will plead guilty to federal charges that she embezzled $2.1 million from the business over a six-year period.
Cultural Traveler Magazine has awarded the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis a spot on its list of top-10 U.S. destinations. “A visit will jump-start your imagination with its innovative, interactive displays that encourage exploration, investigation and discovery,” the magazine said. The museum attracts more than 1.2 million visitors each year with nearly 40 percent coming from more than 100 miles away.
Indiana's two largest cities saw little change in homicide numbers last year. Indianapolis officials say the city had 108 homicide cases during 2012, with four more in other Marion County communities. The city's total was the same as 2011’s number and down significantly from the 151 homicides it saw in 2006. Fort Wayne, meanwhile, had 28 homicides last year, compared to 20 in 2011 and 28 in 2010.
Two masked men, including one armed with a gun, climbed through a drive-through window and stole Oxycontin from a Greenwood-area CVS store just before 8 p.m. Thursday. The men forced a pharmacist to open the window of the store at 402 Market Place Dr., took the drugs from a safe, exited through the window and sped off in a white Chevy passenger car. Police stopped a similar car a short time later but the men in the car did not match the description of the robbers.
Indianapolis attorney and developer Paul J. Page has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in an investigation that targets former Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi.
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The Indianapolis-based company's Celadon Trucking Services subsidiary has agreed to acquire Warren-based Rock Leasing Inc. in northeast Indiana and Wadley, Ala.-based Kelly Logistics Inc.
The earnings fell short of predictions by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, which recently forecast per-share earnings of 10 cents on revenue of $296 million.
U.S. employers added 155,000 jobs in December, a steady gain that shows hiring held up during the tense negotiations to resolve the fiscal cliff.
Eli Lilly and Co. forecasts its 2013 earnings will grow more than Wall Street expects even though the drugmaker will lose U.S. patent protection for two more key products in the new year.
Four sisters diagnosed with breast cancer are suing Eli Lilly and Co., a former maker of DES, or diethylstilbestrol, a drug taken by their mother in the 1950s when she was pregnant. It could be the first of scores of such trials over the drug.
Officials with Indiana's wind energy industry say they are relieved by Congress' one-year extension of a tax credit but contend it will take a longer-term approach to grow the industry and create jobs in the state.
Attorney General Greg Zoeller and a Republican state senator said Thursday they will seek $10 million to place more law enforcement in Indiana's schools.
Strong U.S. sales in December capped a remarkable year for the auto industry. U.S. sales of models manufactured in Indiana in 2012 by General Motors, Toyota, Honda and Subaru outpaced the national rate, rising 17 percent.
A historic brick building long used as a restaurant and hotel suites next door to Circle Centre mall is going up for sale for the first time in almost a decade, with an expected asking price of $4 million.