New unemployment claims fall to lowest in 2 months
Still, the economy is barely growing and hiring is slow. Businesses and other private employers added a net total of 67,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department said.
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Still, the economy is barely growing and hiring is slow. Businesses and other private employers added a net total of 67,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department said.
House Minority Leader Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said the state’s next two-year budget doesn’t have to be “honestly balanced,” meaning the state could spend more than it takes in by dipping into reserves if the economy continues to sag.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said Wednesday he has hosted about a dozen dinners with top Republican fundraisers and business and policy leaders, but never pitched himself as a potential presidential candidate.
Emmis Communications Corp. CEO Jeff Smulyan’s JS Acquisition LLC is suing its one-time financier for backing out of a deal to take the Indianapolis-based media company private.
With a deadline looming, supporters and detractors debate extending tax cuts signed by former president George W. Bush.
Grant will give Indiana University undergrads a shot at managing real money.
A Florida man with ties to the founder of Indianapolis-based Williams Realty Group
pleaded guilty Wednesday to running a multistate Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say left investors with up to $100 million in losses.
Lunch will be delivered to a Noblesville school after an early-morning fire damaged part of the building’s kitchen. Investigators say the flames were sparked by a heating system at Durban Elementary School. No one was in the building at the time. Firefighters say damage to the building is minimal, and classes started on time.
Police are investigating another case of someone throwing rocks off an Indianapolis-area overpass. A woman was driving under the Emerson Avenue bridge on Massachusetts Avenue about 5 a.m. Wednesday when her vehicle was hit by a rock that shattered her back window. She was not hurt. The incident was at least the third case of rocks being thrown off the overpass since the start of summer. Local police don’t know if the cases are linked.
Mobi Wireless expects to pay average wages of more than $50,000 to 253 new workers; Bostech Corp. expects to pay more than $80,000 to 61 new employees.
A father and son are at Wishard Hospital after being rescued by Indianapolis firefighters Wednesday morning. Clois Jones, 93, and his son, 63-year-old John Jones, suffered possible smoke inhalation as they slept in their burning home in the 3500 block of North Chester Avenue. Both men were pulled out of the front room of the house. The official cause and origin of the blaze are under investigation. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
Purdue’s enrollment figures show that it has 74,759 students at its five campuses and various technology program sites around Indiana.
Production at U.S. factories grew in August for the 12th time in 14 months, but at a slower rate than earlier this year.
It would take a police officer, fire fighter or school teacher making $60,000 a year, 333.33 years to make what Colts' safety Bob Sanders got in guaranteed money from his current contract.
The study conducted by researchers at Penn State University said tobacco use kills 9,700 Hoosiers every year. The report also found that if Indiana were to invest in comprehensive smoking cessation benefits, the state would receive a 19-percent return on its investment.
Two tech companies located in Northwest Technology Center in Zionsville plan to invest $3.6 million and add 314 jobs over the next four years, officials announced Wednesday morning.
Gov. Mitch Daniels joined others in promoting passage of a referendum that would make property tax caps in Indiana part of the state constitution.