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Regulatory overload is community banks’ next big hurdle
Banks across Indiana are preparing for a deluge of new regulations that will cut into their bottom lines, make their businesses more complex and, in some cases, force them to consolidate.
Teachers in trouble over ISTEP help
School administrators in Madison County say a pair of teachers committed an ethics violation by giving some students too much help in preparing for their ISTEP exams. As a result, a portion of the ISTEP exam taken by 6th graders at Pendleton Elementary School Intermediate has been invalidated. Superintendent Tom Warmke said the teachers looked at the science portion of the exam beforehand and then taught their students the material. The teachers face discipline ranging from a written reprimand to termination.
Man shot on northwest side
A 29-year-old man was critically hurt late Wednesday night after police say he was shot in his home on the northwest side of Indianapolis. According to police, the man heard someone knocking at his door in the 4500 block of Glen Arm Drive at about 11:40 p.m. The victim said three teen males fired shots at him after he opened the door, then ran off. He was taken to Wishard Hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest. No arrests have been made.
Teen in brutality case arrested
Brandon Johnson, who claimed Indianapolis police officers used excessive force on him when a brother was arrested in May last year, is now under arrest himself. Johnson, 16, was arrested Wednesday night on charges of criminal gang activity and dangerous possession of a firearm. His two brothers were arrested on charges of criminal gang activity and possession of marijuana. The arrest warrant was actually intended for one of Johnson's brothers, but when police entered the home in the 7700 block of Mountain Spring Way on the city’s east side, they found a gun, bullets, drugs and gang paraphernalia.
Merger with Teradata fueling Aprimo’s growth
Aprimo Inc. ratchets up customers, sales and market presence under new owner Teradata, and will continue job growth plans for Indianapolis.
Massive Indy startup group heads south for convention
More than 100 local technology entrepreneurs will depart Thursday for what some call the Super Bowl of the startup world: the South by Southwest Interactive Conference.
Players’ union proclamation shows Polian got it wrong
NFLPA boss says 18-game schedule "off the table." Players suggest pulling games off NFL Network and creating Thursday night football package to raise cash.
State unemployment rate dips to 9.1 percent
After topping out at 10.2 percent last summer, Indiana’s jobless rate has been steadily declining.
Review: NoExit’s ‘4.48 Psychosis’
Innovative local company challenges conventions with suicidal performance piece.
Hurco turns first quarterly profit in two years
The Indianapolis-based machine tool maker reported profit of $1.5 million on revenue of $39.7 million in its fiscal first quarter.
Irsay, Simon tie on magazine’s world’s-richest list
In a feat not possible for their teams, Indiana Pacers owner Herb Simon and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay tied for 879th place on Forbes magazine’s annual list of the richest people in the world. Bill Cook and Dean White also made the list.
Thousands gather for union rally at Statehouse
Thousands of Indiana union members held signs, chanted slogans and cheered speakers outside the Statehouse on Thursday at a rally to protest Republican-backed bills they consider an attack on public education and labor unions.
Senate panel considers proposal to expand charters
The Senate Education Committee heard hours of testimony about the bill and details of a new study that found Indiana students who transferred to charter schools showed greater learning gains than their peers who stayed in traditional public schools.
Indiana House leaders more genial over boycott
More than two weeks after Democratic lawmakers fled Indiana to block GOP-backed legislation, both sides gave optimistic signals Wednesday about resolving the stalemate.
MEREDITH: Community leaders know what’s best for their schools
It seems clear that local control of school calendar issues should be based on what is best for the students in local settings and not about the bottom dollar of profit.
HARRIS: The amount of quality classroom time is the real issue
It’s not when to start and when to end that matters, it’s the amount of time kids spend actually learning that will keep us competing in the global economy.
DOWD: Governor Brown redux … the iceman melteth
The shock of dark hair is gone, but Jerry Brown is still Jerry Brown. The prickliness, bluntness, questioning, calculating. That against-the-grain attitude; disdain for materialism, emptiness and politics as usual; that Jesuit-Buddhist outlook.