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Indianapolis Police are investigating a home invasion in the 2600 block of Lull Water Lane on the city's far-east side near the Marion/Hancock county line. Police say a woman was tied up and beaten inside her home. Somehow, detectives say, the victim was able to get free and get to her car. A neighbor called 911. Due to the severity of her injuries, officers say the woman was unable to give them much information about the suspect.
More Hoosier voters are getting their ballots turned in early and avoiding those Election Day lines. In Marion County, more than 15,000 people had already voted as of Thursday morning. That's ahead of the 2006 midterm election, when fewer than 14,000 people voted before Election Day. Statewide, more than 87,000 people have cast their ballots at clerk's offices and satellite voting locations.
After losing a key grant, Indianapolis Urban League laid off employees and failed to make three months' worth of retirement payments into one former worker's account—something that was remedied after the worker complained to the Labor Department.
Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the second drop in a row and a hopeful sign the job market could be improving.
Warsaw-based Orthopedic implant maker Zimmer Holdings Inc. reported net income of $191.1 million, or 96 cents per share. Sales fell 1 percent to $965 million from $975.6 million.
The insurer announced Thursday morning that it earned $9.2 million in the third quarter, down from $14.3 million a year ago. Quarterly revenue rose to $67.3 million, up from $65.5 million.
Interactions Corp., a technology firm based in Boston, plans to hire about 125 workers at its technology center in Carmel over the next few months, the company announced Thursday morning.
Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences improved revenue during the third quarter thanks to a 26-percent increase in volume, but it still recorded a loss for the period.
Duke Realty Corp. had its best leasing quarter in three years and boosted overall occupancy to nearly 90 percent, helping the company post a profit for the fiscal period ended Sept. 30.
The FBI also will have special agents available to receive allegations of election fraud or discrimination.
Mark Long was president of the Indiana University Research & Technology Corp., which was responsible for the university’s tech transfer, before launching a consulting firm, Long Performance Advisors, in 2008.
Indiana firms have dismissed more than 1,400 life science workers over the last two years. Now BioCrossroads has launched a website that aims to keep that talent in the state.
David Karandos, a broker who advised the Indiana State Teachers Association Insurance Trust before it collapsed in 2009, is facing an administrative complaint from the Indiana Securities Division, which alleges 13 violations for unethical, dishonest and deceptive practices.
The annual Graduation Success Rate shows 79 percent of all athletes entering college between 2000-01 and 2003-04 earned degrees within six years.
Six months into a $750,000 plan to increase Hendricks County’s profile as a tourist destination, officials say group travel has doubled and hotel occupancy is up almost 3 percentage points—before an end-of-the-year push to get travelers to “Spend the Holidays in Hendricks County.”
Authorities say a 40-year-old motorcyclist spent three days after a crash along a rural central Indiana highway unable to move before being spotted and rescued. Johnson County police say Raymond Lebo of Morgantown drove his motorcycle off Indiana 135 on a curve Saturday between Trafalgar and Morgantown. Lebo fell into a low area that couldn't be seen from the road. Lebo was taken to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, where he was listed in stable condition.
