Home » Search

Search Results

14167 results for 'articles'

To refine your search through our archives use our Advanced Search

Police searching for armed suspect

Indiana State Police are looking for a motorist who fled after exchanging gunfire with a trooper following a traffic stop in Seymour. Authorities said John Michael Fish, 35, got out of his vehicle and shot at an officer after he was pulled over on Sandy Creek Drive. The trooper returned fire, but no one was injured. Officials from three different agencies launched a manhunt but came up empty. Police said Fish’s last known address is in Indianapolis, so he may be headed there.

DCS: More foster children find homes

A record 1,787 foster children were adopted in 2011, the Indiana Department of Child Services said Tuesday. The state agency stepped up its efforts to reunite children with their families or find them new homes. Teams focused on hard-to-place children who typically are older, in sibling groups or have special needs. More than a third of the adoptions—598—occurred in the last two months of the year after several judges scheduled special court dates to accelerate the process. DCS said about 300 foster children still need permanent homes.

Sugarland responds to lawsuit

Country duo Sugarland denies any wrongdoing in the stage collapse that killed seven people and injured dozens of others before the band’s scheduled Aug. 13 Indiana State Fair concert. In court documents filed Monday, the group called the tragedy “a true accident or Act of God” and said the victims “knowingly and voluntarily assumed and/or incurred the risk of injury to themselves." Sugarland, a defendant in a class-action lawsuit seeking damages in the collapse, blamed others for not evacuating the grandstands despite deteriorating weather. But Indiana State Fair Commission chief Cindy Hoye has testified that the band twice refused to delay the concert.

Appeals court rules on anonymous online comment case

The Indiana Court of Appeals on Tuesday ordered a Marion County judge to reconsider whether The Indianapolis Star must identify an online user who posted an anonymous comment that now is part of a defamation lawsuit.

Sarah Fisher frozen out of IndyCar Series

The series' only woman owner, and one of its most popular people over the last decade, can't get anyone to sell her an engine to go racing. She has the money, a promising American driver, a new chassis and new shop. Yet she's still stalled.

City-County Council member gives salary to local library

Steve Talley will donate his council salary over the next four years, which totals about $52,000, to launch an endowment through the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation in honor of his late wife, Donna.

Allison Transmission profits tripled in 2011

Net income of $103 million last year compares with a profit of $29.6 million in 2010 and a loss of $323.9 million in 2009, according to a document the transmission maker filed Feb. 17 with the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of its planned IPO.

Manufacturer plans to add 70 jobs in Wells County

Haven Manufacturing in Ossian, south of Fort Wayne, makes orthopedic instruments, industrial parts and special tooling for the medical, furniture, aerospace and transportation industries.

Koch family could get Kentucky Kingdom answer this week

The Kentucky State Fair Board will discuss and vote on a tentative operating agreement with the owners of Holiday World in Santa Claus, Ind. A spokeswoman said the Koch family may rename Kentucky Kingdom.

Industrial spec development making a comeback

Speculative development is returning to the modern bulk industrial market after a four-year drought, with at least two projects preparing to break ground this spring and another in the works.

State lawmaker opposes honor for Girl Scouts

Indiana Rep. Bob Morris of Fort Wayne won't support a resolution celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts because he believes it is a "radicalized organization" that supports abortion and promotes homosexuality.

Martin University names new president

George E. Miller III, a former astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is the Indianapolis school’s third president.

People

Rivienne Shedd-Steele, director of the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center’s Office of Health Disparities and Outreach, also has been named director of Cervical Cancer-Free Indiana, an advocacy organization for screenings and vaccinations to prevent humillopapillomavirus, the prime cause of cervical cancer.

Indianapolis-based Indiana Health Centers Inc. has hired Dr. Stephen Sauer, a family physician, to serve in the Community Health Center of Miami County in Peru. Sauer completed medical school at Saba University SOM in the Dutch Caribbean.

Planned Parenthood of Indiana hired Jon Mills as director of marketing and communications. Mills worked on mayoral candidate Melina Kennedy’s 2011 campaign as communications director. Early in his career, he was a legislative aide for congresswoman Julia Carson. Mills has also been director of corporate communications for WellPoint Inc. and Indiana University Health.

Company news

Eli Lilly and Co.’s osteoporosis drug Forteo was used in the first successful human trial of an implantable device that delivers injectable drugs—showing promise for eliminating the need for regular shots. Massachusetts-based MicroCHIPS Inc. implanted wirelessly controlled drug-delivery devices in women with osteoporosis. The devices delivered daily doses of Forteo into the women’s bloodstreams. The device could be helpful for Lilly and its peers, who are trying to develop more biotech drugs like Forteo. Such drugs are typically made up of large proteins, which cannot be reduced to pill form and must instead be injected. Many patients resist taking injectable drugs and many do not fully comply with their prescribed regimens.

A Cicero-based developer plans to build a $15.7 million senior health care center at 16th Street and Arlington Avenue on Indianapolis’ east side. The city’s Metropolitan Development Commission approved the project Wednesday after accepting Mainstreet Property Group LLC’s offer to purchase the property for $912,500. Mainstreet plans to begin construction in July and finish by June 2013. The facility would include 100 beds for skilled care, short-term rehabilitation and assisted-living patients. The facility is expected to create up to 150 jobs, said Zeke Turner, Mainstreet’s CEO. Overall, the company owns or co-owns 13 senior health care centers in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, and has six more under development. It plans to break ground on as many as 12 centers by the end of the year, including a $13.3 million facility in Westfield, Turner said.

Marian University is looking to hire as many as 25 professors to help launch its College of Osteopathic Medicine, which is slated to open in August 2013. The school, which would be Indiana’s second medical school, would train 150 physicians each year. Marian, a small Catholic university in Indianapolis, wants to hire as many as three professors in each of seven disciplines: anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology, immunology, physiology, pharmacology and pathology.