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Veterinarian Robert Maier has been fired from the VCA Shadeland Animal Hospital in Indianapolis after a dog owner called
police to report the vet was drunk on the job and about to perform surgery on a dog. Police say Maier exceeded the legal limit
on a portable breath test. Maier cooperated when they ordered him off the property, police say. He has worked at the clinic
for two years.
 

Police are still looking for a suspect after an early-morning chase in Beech Grove. It started after two vehicles were stolen
about 6 a.m. near Five Points Road. Both stolen trucks crashed and then at least two suspects ran away from the scene. Justin
McDonough, 18, was captured by a K-9 officer. Police believe at least one more suspect is still on the loose. The two trucks
are owned by Van Sickle’s Landscaping and Trucking.
 

Indianapolis police are investigating a reported theft of about $1 million in jewelry. David Artinian, a jewelry distributor,
told police he went into a jewelry store on West 86th Street for 10 minutes Tuesday evening to sell merchandise when someone
broke into his car’s trunk and stole a 30-inch-long box of jewelry. Artinian said his insurance won’t cover the
theft because he wasn’t carrying the jewelry. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
 

Sheryl Crow performs at Southern Indiana’s Horseshoe Casino, June 12. Details here.

Loverboy offers two shows on June 12 at Hoosier Park. Details here.

Here Come the Mummies headlines Party in the Park at Northside Opti-Park, June 12. Details here.

Local musicians and artists are celebrated June 13 at the Independent Music and Art Festival at the Harrison
Center for the Arts. Performers include Lord of the Yum Yum, Mandy Marie and the Cool Hand Lukes, and Denison Witmer. Details
here.

The 55th annual Talbot Street Art Fair takes over the area between 16th and 20th Sts between Delaware and
Pennsylvania Sts. on June 12-13. Details here.

Ingrid Michaelson takes the stage at the Vogue, June 15. Details here.
 

June 12-Sept. 12
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis         

I assume lots of aspects of the rock and roll life are going to be skipped over in this new Children’s Museum exhibit.
But I do know that kids will have a chance to dress up and hit the stage while parents can check out memorabilia from Elvis,
The Beatles, KISS (coming to the State Fair this year, in case you haven’t heard), U2 and more. A June 11th “Family
Rock Star Extravaganza” offers a first-look at the exhibit and features a live concert. Details here.

 

Jun 10-July 4
Brown County Playhouse

For a show about school-aged kids with a bit more of an edge, consider a drive to Nashville, where Brown County Playhouse
is kicking off its season with a production of this Broadway hit. The show centers on the title contest pitting school misfits—and
audience members—against each other.

The cast includes Susan Owen, on hiatus from the Broadway company of "Phantom of the Opera."  I’ll admit
it here, though. Every time I’ve seen it, I’ve been rooting for Leaf Coneybear to win. Details here.

 

IUPUI took two steps closer to creating a School of Public Health as it gave Lilly Scholars awards to help
two professors start up public health research projects. The awards are funded by a $1 million gift from the Eli Lilly
and Co. Foundation. Jennifer Wessel, who was hired from personalized genetics company SRI International, will focus
her research on developing interventions based on individuals' genetic profiles that can promote healthy lifestyles to
prevent or delay coronary artery disease. Silvia M. Bigatti, who has been a professor of psychology at the Indiana
University School of Medicine since 2000, will study factors related to stress and coping in cancer patients and
their partners and also community-based preventive health behaviors among Latinos.

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has approved a Stop Diabetes specialty license plate. Like Indiana's
other special group-recognition license plates, the Stop Diabetes plate will cost $40, with $25 of that cost directly benefiting
the American Diabetes Association. The funds raised will support education and research about diabetes. According to the American
Diabets Association, more than 714,000 Hoosiers have diabetes and at least 1.6 million, roughly a fourth of the state's
population, are at high risk for it.

Endocyte Inc.'s experimental cancer drug doubled survival times for women with difficult cases of ovarian
cancer. In a clinical trial of 91 women, Endocyte’s drug EC145, when combined with another chemotherapy drug, Doxil,
held off ovarian cancer for six months, compared with 3 months for patients given Doxil alone. The data are interim results
from a Phase 2 clinical trial involving 150 women. Endocyte, based in West Lafayette, plans to move its drug into a large
Phase 3 trial later this year.

Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. and Merck KGaA’s Erbitux failed to slow early-stage colon cancer,
in a clinical trial that left scientists mystified. Erbitux is already approved to treat colon cancer in advanced stages,
and scientists presumed it would also work in earlier stages, according to Bloomberg News. The finding is the latest of at
least three studies that have narrowed the scope of Erbitux. It recorded sales last year of $1.4 billion, according to IMS
Health.