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CIB expects to lose money during Super Bowl

The Capital Improvement Board, which manages Lucas Oil Stadium, is budgeting for an $810,000 loss on expenses related to the game. The city, however, expects a $200 million economic impact.

Indiana House panel backs fines on access violators

A bill that would allow fines of up to $500 against government officials found to have blatantly violated the state's open meetings or open record laws has been endorsed 11-0 by an Indiana House committee.

NCAA delays decision on stipend for scholarship athletes

The National Collegiate Athletic Association will wait to decide on whether scholarship athletes at college sports’ top division will be eligible for as much as $2,000 a year to pay for food, transportation and other incidental expenses.

State sentencing overhaul to take another year

Legislators stung last year by county prosecutors who opposed a sweeping plan to overhaul Indiana’s criminal sentencing scheme won’t push the issue this year. Sheriffs now are worried that an attempt to reduce crowding in state prisons could aggravate overpopulation in their jails.

Judge upholds Indiana school voucher law

A Marion Superior Court judge affirmed Indiana’s school voucher law on Friday, rejecting opponents’ arguments that the largest such program in the nation unconstitutionally uses public money to support religion.

Two Greenwood schools receive threats

Two schools in Greenwood, Southwest Elementary School and Greenwood Middle School, were put on lockdown Friday morning following a threatening phone call. The caller said somebody was in the parking lot of the schools armed with an AK-47 rifle. Police checked both schools and surrounding areas and found nothing suspicious. Greenwood Middle School also was evacuated Wednesday after the school received fake bomb threats.
 

Bill targets teens and tans

Lawmakers looking to protect teens debated spray tans at the Statehouse on Thursday. Legislators heard testimony on a bill that would require minors to get written consent from their parents to get a spray tan. For spray tans applied by a person, the proposed legislation would require teens to have a parent in the room with them if they choose to be partly or completely nude. The person applying the spray tan would also have to be the same gender as the client.
 

Armed robbers hit gas stations

Indianapolis police are investigating two armed gas station robberies Friday morning that may be connected. The first happened about 2 a.m. at the Village Pantry on 10th Street and Grant Avenue on the east side of the city. Two men reportedly entered the store, threatened the clerk with a gun, demanded money and took off on foot. The other robbery took place just after 4 a.m. at a Speedway in the 4000 block of South Madison Avenue, about eight miles from the other robbery. This time, two men fled in a car.
 

Retail sales weaken in December, but cap a record year

For all of 2011, U.S. retail sales totaled a record $4.7 trillion. That was a gain of nearly 8 percent over 2010 — the largest percentage increase since 1999. But the final month of the year was a dud.

INSIDE DISH: Noodle readies for Super Bowl rush

Dish Noodle Watch VideoOwner Hal Yeagy expects at least three months of business over 10 days at the newly nonsmoking Slippery Noodle Inn, and he's spending nearly $300,000 on physical improvements and a temporary tent to make sure it rocks.