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Report: ISU struggling to retain key students

Indiana State University officials concerned about low freshman retention rates, especially among African-American students, are looking at ways to keep more students in college to get their degrees.

GM to idle Fort Wayne plant for nine weeks

General Motors Co., preparing to introduce new pickups in 2013, has scheduled 21 weeks without production at three U.S. full-size truck plants next year to update the factories for building the new models.

People

Ice Miller LLP hired Taryn Stone as an associate in its health care transactions group. Most recently, she was senior corporate counsel for Louisiana-based home health and hospice company Amedisys Inc. Stone graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and received her law degree from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis in 2005. Stone worked in Ice Miller's health care transactions group from 2005 to 2008.

The Indianapolis-based Behavior Analysis Center for Autism added Dr. Peter Gerhardt as a clinical consultant. He will make regular visits to the center to train the center’s staff and parents of children with autism. Gerhardt will remain a director of education for the McCarton School for autism in New York. Previously, Gerhardt was a research professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Correction

Anesthesia Consultants of Indianapolis LLC has 80 physicians. The size of the Indianapolis-based practice was reported incorrectly in the Dec. 19 edition of IBJ Health Care & Reform Weekly.

Filing: Roche considered leaving Indy

It’s hard to believe now, but as recently as two years ago, Indianapolis was close to losing its 15th-largest employer. Roche Diagnostics Corp. was looking seriously at moving its 2,900-employee North American headquarters out of Indianapolis.

Q&A

Dr. Bryan Schneider, a professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, led a team of researchers in identifying genetic variations that dispose some breast cancer patients to neuropathy when they are receiving chemotherapy with the drug Taxol. Schneider’s research was named one of the biggest advances in cancer research this year by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The society’s foundation also gave Schneider a three-year, $450,000 grant to further the research.

EEOC alleges discrimination at Midwest ISO

A Carmel-based power grid operator violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by firing a woman who suffered from post-partum depression, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in a lawsuit filed Friday.

Police called to control rowdy shoe shoppers

Local police were called to two Indianapolis malls to control crowds waiting to purchase the newest generation of Air Jordan basketball shoe. Similar incidents have been reported nationwide.

Shoplifting Grinches: Tis’ the season to steal

During the four weeks leading up to Christmas, an estimated $1.84 billion in merchandise will be shoplifted this year, according to The Global Retail Theft Barometer. That’s up about 6 percent from $1.7 billion during the same period last year.

YMCA revamps fundraising strategy for Pike Township

YMCA of Greater Indianapolis officials have started a $40 million fundraising campaign that will be used to fund three more local locations, including a much-delayed $10 million facility in Pike Township.

Backup QB rallies Colts for second win

The Indianapolis Colts’ home finale on Thursday night ended with a come-from-behind touchdown drive worthy of Peyton Manning, but executed by backup quarterback Dan Orlovsky. Trailing 16-12 with two minutes remaining, the Colts took over on their 22 yard line and marched downfield to set up a one-yard touchdown pass from Orlovsky to Reggie Wayne with 19 seconds remaining. The 19-16 win puts in jeopardy the Colts’ chances for landing the first pick in the 2012 NFL draft. Now that the Colts have two wins on the season, along with the Minnesota Vikings and the St. Louis Rams, the top draft spot won’t be determined until the last week of the season.

Overturned semi blocks I-70

A westbound semitrailer hit a guardrail and flipped on its side early Friday morning on Interstate 70, blocking traffic in both directions near the State Road 9 exit in Hancock County. Emergency crews were alerted to the accident just before 3 a.m. Two people in the truck cab escaped without injuries. As of 6:30 a.m., the accident was blocking one eastbound and one westbound lane of I-70, but lane restrictions were expected to ease later in the morning.

UPDATE: Judge throws out secretary of state election

An attorney for Charlie White said "he's not going anywhere" despite a judge's ruling Thursday that the embattled Indiana Republican secretary of state be removed from office because he was improperly registered as a candidate.