Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ with Sandi Patty and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
It’s so nice to have a concert musical back where it belongs….on the ISO schedule.
Home » Search
Search Results
14179 results for 'articles'
To refine your search through our archives use our Advanced Search
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.
Review: “Current Economic Conditions” at the Phoenix Theatre
When I compare “Current Economic Conditions” to a sitcom, I’m not being a sneering scribe, looking down at the form.
Indy tests its snow-removal plan for Super Bowl
A light snowfall that's blanketed Indianapolis is giving the city's street crews a chance to test their snow-removal strategy for the Super Bowl.
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.
Indianapolis-area home sales close year on the rise
Home-sale agreements increased 7.9 percent in the nine-county Indianapolis area in December, helping the region eke out an annual gain of less than 1 percent.
Indiana Dems: Voters should decide right-to-work
House Democrats say they’ll continue stall tactics at the General Assembly unless they get a referendum to decide whether Indiana will become a right-to-work state.
City boosts 2011 convention sales 13 percent
The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association booked nearly 735,000 hotel room nights in 2011 for conventions and meetings.
Hurco reports fourth straight quarterly profit
Strong sales in North America and Europe helped the Indianapolis-based machine-tool maker.
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.
Angie’s List sues rival, accuses it of stealing data
The Indianapolis-based ratings service alleges that principals of Click and Improve Inc. secretly joined Angie’s List then illegally harvested more than 24,000 proprietary files.
INSIDE DISH: Noodle readies for Super Bowl rush
Owner 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.
Indiana county leaders worried over 911 funding
County officials across Indiana scrambling to find money to pay for 911 emergency services say they aren't confident of getting help from state legislators, who might be leery of boosting cellphone fees during an election year.
Indiana fair concerts going to expanded coliseum
The Indiana State Fair Commission decided Thursday to permanently move its outdoor grandstand concerts indoors and authorized spending $3.8 million to help prepare their new home: The Pepsi Coliseum located nearby on the north side Indianapolis fairgrounds.
