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Court upholds former pastor’s fraud sentence

The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a 54-year sentence for a 67-year-old former pastor convicted of pocketing millions of dollars that investors believed would be used to build churches.

Truck accident shuts down I-70 lanes

Interstate 70 westbound lanes at Ronald Reagan Parkway in Hendricks County were closed Monday morning after a tanker overturned. Police said the tanker was carrying uranium, but the container was not damaged and the uranium did not leak. The driver was taken to the hospital with slight injuries. Officials said lanes would be closed until the truck could be removed from a ditch.
 

Escaped inmate caught in Iowa

An escaped jail inmate who led Indianapolis police on a manhunt is back behind bars. Cody Thurman, 18, was caught in Jackson County in Iowa early Sunday morning after escaping from the Marion County Jail just before 11 p.m. Friday. He was on kitchen-maintenance detail when he escaped his handcuffs and chain line and got away through the underground garage area of the City-County Building. Police tracked Thurman to a residential area on the west side of Indianapolis Saturday about noon, but he had already fled. A tip from a bar owner in Iowa led to his capture in Bellevue.
 

West side hit by armed robberies

Police are investigating to see if three robberies that took place early Monday morning on the west side are related. Three armed robbers struck a Plainfield Speedway station at U.S. 40 and Ronald Reagan Parkway about 1:50 a.m. Another armed robbery was reported less than 20 minutes later at a Speedway gas station on 10th Street and Girls School Road. The third incident was reported just before 3 a.m. at an Admiral gas station on Crawfordsville Road. Police are questioning two suspects. No one was injured in the holdups.
 

Danica Patrick bridge-burning tour continues

In a matter of three days, the diva driver takes aim at Brazilian drivers, Japan's food supply and the IndyCar CEO's decision making. So who will she endear in NASCAR?

IU launches $250K student biz-plan competition

A group of 10 investors created a $1.1 million fund to support $250,000 in annual prize money to Indiana University students in Bloomington who submit the best business plans for an Internet or software company.

U.S. airline flights are fuller than ever this year

Frontier, a division of Indianapolis-based Republic Airways, sold 91 percent of its seats in July and August, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who fought over an armrest this summer.

You-review-it Monday

Jazz fest? ISO opening weekend? What A&E did you encounter this weekend?

Libertarian Horning enters U.S. Senate race

The frequent candidate for political office in Indiana used his campaign announcement to assail the two-party system that dominates the American political system.

GOP candidates revive call to privatize Social Security

As President Barack Obama sidesteps ways to keep the retirement system viable, his would-be rivals are keen on letting younger workers divert part of their payroll taxes into some type of personal account to be invested separately from Social Security.

Obama to seek new income tax rate for wealthy

The president is going to call it the “Buffett Rule” for Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who has complained that rich people like him pay a smaller share of their income in federal taxes than middle-class taxpayers.

Sweeping reform to patent system signed into law

The first significant change in patent law since 1952 is designed to ease the way for inventors to bring products to market and help whittle down a massive backlog of applications.

Carmel-based company buys medical-billing firm

Zotec Partners, a fast-growing physician-billing management company based in Carmel, has acquired a family-owned medical-billing firm with 100 employees based in Florida.