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Folks in Indiana felt the tremors from an earthquake that struck near the Ontario-Quebec border about 1:40 p.m. Wednesday.
The quake registered a magnitude-5.0, and it took just 150 seconds for the waves to travel 657 miles to Indiana. People in
Elletsville, Anderson, Indianapolis and Westfield all reported feeling the tremors.
Police say a woman with a gun forced her way into a western Indiana home and then stabbed a husband and wife in an apparent
attempt to kidnap their newborn boy. The man was able to stop the attack and call police to the home in the Vigo County community
of Prairie Creek on Wednesday. Sheriff Jon Marvel says 34-year-old Stephanie Foster didn't know the couple she attacked.
He said investigators believe Foster was faking a pregnancy and looking for a baby. She was jailed on preliminary charges
of attempted murder and kidnapping. The victims were treated for knife wounds at the hospital.
Crews resumed searching Thursday morning for a 19-year-old man who was swept away after falling into a rain-swollen creek near a western Indiana state park. Authorities say the teen fell into Sugar Creek and disappeared about 8 p.m. Wednesday at the northern edge of Shades State Park. Officials say the creek is normally about 2 feet deep, but was about 9 feet when the teen fell in.
Indy Mobile purchases 527-lot Friendly Village through a court-appointed receiver.
Envisioned by Christopher Eley as a one-man butcher shop, Goose has
grown in three years to a 12-person operation trending for $1 million in sales.
Auction turns up no buyers for the former home of the commanding general at Fort Benjamin Harrison and four condominiums at
the old Army base.
TKO Graphix in Plainfield calls back 15 workers and adds another 15 to help install graphics on 6,000 vehicles operated by
the national lawn care company.
For-profit colleges like ITT Technical Institutes need tougher oversight and regulation, according to a report from a Democratic
Senate committee chairman that questions the industry’s advertising spending, tuition costs and reliance on taxpayer
money.
JS Acquisition Inc., a company owned by Emmis Communications CEO Jeffrey Smulyan, extended its buyout offer to July 30.
A new federal law intended to enhance consumer protection and reduce fraud in the residential loan market may put the kibosh on seller financing of residential properties. This has huge implications for owners of rental housing.
A Cincinnati-based homebuilder’s expansion into Indianapolis marks the second time in six months a builder from the
Queen City has carved out space in the metropolitan area.
Will the latest ambitious downtown development proposal finally master the formula for transforming a downtown surface parking
lot?
Ohio’s governor has asked state environmental regulators to come up with a way to save 214 jobs at a northwest Ohio plant
that is considering a move to Indiana.
McCready and Keene Inc. is the fifth-largest employee benefits firm in the Indianapolis area. It employs 95 people nationally, 82 of them in Indianapolis, according to IBJ research.
Both Democrats seeking their party's nomination for Indiana secretary of state are critics of the state's voter identification
law, which they would have a role in enforcing as the top state election official.
State highway officials expect about 150 houses or businesses will have to be demolished as a new 20-mile stretch of U.S.
31 is built in northern Indiana.
Authorities say a train struck and killed a man who was sitting on the tracks near the 7800 block of Brookville Road about
2 p.m. Tuesday. Indianapolis police said in a statement that officers and officials from CSX are investigating the incident.
According to police, 42-year-old Anthony Cummings of Indianapolis was sitting on the tracks and did not appear to be aware
of the approaching train. The train's engineer saw him and tried to stop while sounding the train's horn, police said.
Cummings was killed instantly.
Indiana families receiving welfare could risk losing their benefits if they don't cooperate with prosecutors trying to
collect child support. The provision—which allows the state to cancel Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits
for people who fail to cooperate with prosecutors—is part of an overhaul in child-support laws that takes effect July
1. Another part of the law requires casinos to withhold winnings from parents who are behind on their child-support payments.
