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June 15-16
Service Center
Artists create work in 8 ft. x 20 ft. x 8 ft. storage containers and visitors stroll the parking lot at the Lafayette Square area parking lot to check them out in this annual event created by Primary Colours. Artists represented this year include Brandy Graham, David Yosha and Chad Sines. There’s live music, too, along with food and beverage sales. Details here.
June 16
Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site
The Harrison Home’s highly competitive annual white-clad event has added activity this year. There’s a “Kids Croquet with Alice” event paring adult and child teams in a playful trip through Victorian sports and literature … including a chance to play with the Queen of Hearts. After the afternoon 40-team tournament, the Harrisonians host a “Swing is King” mixer with casual croquet play in and around dinner. Beginners welcome. Details here.
Indiana University divers searching the site of a 1725 shipwreck found the booty and other artifacts including musket balls and ceramics. The discovery was introduced to the public Tuesday at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence said Tuesday he wants more Indiana students to graduate from high school ready to work and proposed creating regional groups to design alternative curriculums that train high school students for technical and vocational jobs.
Detroit Free Press senior managing editor Jeffrey Taylor was introduced to the Indianapolis Star's staff on Tuesday. He succeeds Dennis Ryerson at the helm of the state’s largest newspaper.
Beech Grove police are looking for a woman they said used a stolen credit card while dressed in a security guard uniform. The card was in a purse taken in a vehicle break-in last month in the 3200 block of South Emerson Avenue. The day after the theft, police said, surveillance cameras inside the Speedway Gas Station at 105 W. Churchman Ave. captured images of a female suspect wearing a security guard uniform while using it. The woman is wanted for fraud.
Indianapolis arson investigators are looking into four fires that broke out in quick succession Tuesday morning on the city’s near-east side. The first two blazes, reported at 4:38 a.m., were located in the 200 block and 300 block of North Beville Avenue, near the intersection of North Keystone Avenue and East New York Street. At 4:56 a.m., crews were called to a trash fire near a residence in the 500 block of Keystone. And at 4:59 a.m., a building at the corner of New York and North Walcott Street caught fire—apparently after it was struck by a burning object, said Indianapolis Fire Department spokesman Lt. James McNair.
Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University professor of political science and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, died Tuesday at age 78.
In May, pending sales of existing homes in the Indianapolis area increased 7 percent from the same month last year while building permits for new construction rose 20 percent.
Eli Lilly and Co. has invested $20 million in Chinese pharmaceutical company Novast Labs in an effort to build up a portfolio of branded generic medicines in the fast-growing Asian market.
University officials overseeing plans for the $38 million Wang Hall of Electrical and Computer Engineering had hoped to start construction in early May but now say a September start is likely.
The local developer moved its offices into the building and plans more than $2 million in upgrades to reposition a property that fell on hard times at the dawn of the national real estate crisis.
A northwestern Indiana school district has told nearly 100 teachers that they might be laid off as yet another of the state's large districts faces big staffing cuts.
Some of the nation's biggest health insurers will keep some popular parts of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul even if the law fails to survive U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny later this month. Indianapolis-based WellPoint will wait for the court ruling.
The former controller at Fair Finance is testifying at the fraud trial of Tim Durham as a star witness for the federal government in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
NTN Driveshaft Inc. said it will add the jobs by 2013 as part of an $18 million expansion that will include purchasing additional equipment for its 1-million-square-foot facility.
Indiana Lt. Governor Becky Skillman has embarked on her second trade mission to China in hopes of boosting the market for Indiana-made goods.
Indiana Democrats will host their annual state convention outside Indianapolis for the first time as the party tries to energize voters in an area dominated by Republicans.
A spokesman for Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel on Monday afternoon confirmed that it has hired Tania Castroverde Moskalenko, executive director of the Germantown Performing Arts Centre in Germantown, Tenn., near Memphis, to replace Steve Libman.
