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Indianapolis and Kansas City, a metro area with feet in both Missouri and Kansas, are not only similar demographically, but
the cities' convention and tourism trades have some measures in common, like number of annual visitors.
Local B&B operators squeezed by the economy, including Gary Hofmeister, claim they could be doing better if they got some
support from the
Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association.
Three days after witnessing the smallest Brickyard 400 crowd in the race's 17-year history, Indianapolis Motor Speedway
CEO Jeff Belskus said he intends to cut ticket prices for about 75 percent of fans at next year's race.
NHK Seating of America’s plant in Murfreesboro is expected to employ up to 224 workers when all phases of production are operating
in 2015.
Workers escaped injury Tuesday night in an explosion at an east-side Indianapolis chemical-distribution plant. Firefighters
were called to the Univar USA building near East 30th Street and Interstate 465 about 9:30 p.m. When they arrived, plant workers
told them a 6,000-gallon tank they were filling with caustic soda exploded. The product remained in the tank, but a sprinkler
pipe was broken during the explosion. Hazardous materials crews also were called.
Neighbors who live near Linwood Avenue and East New York Street are upset over a decision by the Indianapolis Public Schools
Board to move ahead with plans to condemn seven houses near School 58. IPS said it might want to tear down the homes to make
room for building improvements and a parking lot at Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School. Tuesday night’s vote gave
the district the green light to use eminent domain. IPS Superintendent Eugene White said the current bus-loading system at
the school is dangerous.
More than 70 dogs taken from “hoarders” in Greene County are in need of new homes. The Monroe County Humane Society
took possession of the animals Tuesday after the owners were persuaded to give them up. Two people and the dogs were living
in a single trailer home. Officials say the residents are animal lovers who thought they were helping the dogs. The
animals are in relatively good health and were moved to Bloomington because Greene County’s animal shelter is too small
to handle them. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
A U.S. appeals court Wednesday said a lower court was correct to invalidate a patent on the medicine that expires in 2013.
Gemzar generated $1.36 billion in global sales in 2009.
A new restaurant serving "gourmet Mexican street food" and a bar named to honor a fallen Iraq War veteran are in
the works for two vacant buildings along College Avenue in the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood.
The congressman was the only one from the Indiana delegation to vote for cap and trade. Now, with the Senate having gotten
cold feet on the legislation, Hill might have been left to twist in the wind.
An application with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management calls for a six-barn confined animal feeding operation
near the Jay County town of Bryant.
A Houston minister accused of using money borrowed to build a new church to buy a mink coat and a Mercedes Benz missed his
initial hearing in Indianapolis on Tuesday.
Wayne Zink of Endangered Species Chocolate will become chairman of the company’s not-for-profit foundation. Chief Operating
Officer Curt Vander Meer will replace him as CEO.
Charity event scheduled for July 31 is postponed again as complaints against New Century Publishing mount.
Developer Leif Hinterberger has spent five years and most of his savings trying to build a $19M mixed-use
project at 49th Street and College Avenue. The project could be in trouble if he doesn’t get city
support.
Richard Burd's suicide led to shrewd cost-cutting at the family auto dealership. For Christine Burd, returning to profitability is both heartening and heartbreaking.
The Indianapolis-based health insurer raised its full-year profit forecast after it earned $722.4 million, 4 percent higher
than during the same quarter a year ago. Revenue and health plan membership fell.
The community about 10 miles north of Indianapolis grew by 8.3 square miles and 8,000 people Tuesday with the long-planned
annexation.
Shareholders sued to temporarily block the sale of the public company, which is set to be acquired by JS Acquisition LLC,
a private
company formed by Emmis Chairman and CEO Jeffrey H. Smulyan.
