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Proposal would move up online sales tax collection

Two lawmakers say they plan to introduce legislation in the new year that would require Amazon.com and other online-only retailers with a presence in Indiana to begin collecting sales tax on July 1, 2013, six months earlier than expected.

Live tweets from Durham sentencing

IBJ provided ongoing updates from the courthouse where Ponzi schemer Tim Durham and two accomplices were sentenced Friday afternoon.

Demand soft for Big Ten football title game tickets

Organizers of the Big Ten Conference football championship game are facing third-and-long in their quest to fill Lucas Oil Stadium for Saturday night’s matchup. A glut of tickets remains available on the secondary market.

Drought won’t hit Christmas trees this year

The drought of 2012 could have a profound impact on Indiana's Christmas tree production, but not this year, according to tree farmers. Tom Dull, who has owned Dull's Tree Farm in Thorntown for 28 years, said the drought caused serious losses of tree crops planted this spring and in spring 2011. But those trees weren’t expected to hit the market for seven or eight years. Mature trees handle drought better, so this year’s crop, and prices, shouldn’t be affected, he said.
 

Two Indiana tickets just miss Powerball prize

Hoosier Lottery officials say Indiana retailers sold two tickets that just missed winning a share of the giant Powerball jackpot. Those tickets, sold in Vincennes and Highland, matched the first five numbers in Wednesday night’s drawing, but not the Powerball number, and are worth $1 million each. The two winning tickets for the estimated $580 million jackpot were sold in Arizona and Missouri. More than 206,000 “winning” tickets sold by Indiana retailers won a total of $3.1 million.
 

Retailers report weak sales gains for November

Major retailers such as Kohl's, Target and Macy's on Thursday reported slow sales in November as a strong start to the holiday shopping season wasn't enough to fully offset a slow start to the month caused by Superstorm Sandy.

Hulman & Co. CEO seeks to overhaul IndyCar management

Mark Miles isn’t likely to stop at simply hiring a replacement for Randy Bernard, racing sources said. He also aims to build a new IndyCar Series management structure and hire a new executive team.

Durham fate rests in judge’s hands

Convicted Ponzi schemer Tim Durham and two accomplices will find out Friday whether they will spend the rest of their lives in prison.

State health commissioner returning to private sector

Dr. Gregory N. Larkin, appointed commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health by Gov. Mitch Daniels in 2010, will leave his position in January to become medical director of OurHealth, an employer on-site clinic company.

Feds clear WellPoint’s $4.5B acquisition of Amerigroup

The government has dropped its antitrust concerns about health insurer WellPoint Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Amerigroup Corp., the Justice Department said Wednesday, clearing WellPoint to proceed with the $4.46 billion deal.

Pence appoints veteran Indiana aide chief counsel

Indiana Gov.-elect Mike Pence announced Wednesday that Mark Ahearn would serve as his general counsel. Ahearn comes from the Indiana Department of Transportation and previously worked for Pence and former Sen. Dan Quayle in Congress.

CONOVER: Manufacturing still drives Indiana’s economy

It’s no secret that Indiana’s factory workers took more lumps during the Great Recession than workers in other sectors, with nearly 120,000 losing their jobs. Indeed, from the state’s manufacturing employment peak at the start of the century, our factories had shed a quarter million jobs by the recession’s end.