U.S. farmers planting corn at record pace
U.S. corn farmers may have planted more acres last week than in any week ever as dry weather
and more-productive equipment sped up fieldwork.
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U.S. corn farmers may have planted more acres last week than in any week ever as dry weather
and more-productive equipment sped up fieldwork.
Evansville-based Old National Bancorp on Monday reported a first-quarter profit of $10.1 million, up
84 percent from the prior-year period and a big improvement from the fourth quarter of 2009, when the company posted a loss
of $9.3 million.
Tony-winner is (as of now) bypassing Indy but playing Bloomington.
The two largest U.S. health insurance companies, UnitedHealth, based in Minnetonka, Minn., and WellPoint Inc., based in Indianapolis,
sell Advantage plans.
In January, Anthem Blue Cross notified many individual policyholders that their rates would rise as much as 39 percent March
1. After a public outcry, the company announced a two-month delay. Now that is on hold, too.
The town will spend $250,000 to turn a vacant 15,000 square foot space in the Beechwood Centre into 12 classrooms and a computer
lab.
Indiana's air, land and water are significantly cleaner than they were at the start of the environmental movement
40 years ago, but the state still has work to catch up with other states, according to activists.
Crews will begin in late April demolishing the first of 74 homes south of downtown Franklin damaged by massive flooding in
June 2008. Officials still haven’t decided how to reuse the land, and residents are torn.
A leading Hoosier environmentalist thinks the governor isn’t living up to his conservative reputation.
The central Indiana WorkOne Center is teaming with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to present Career Day @ the Brickyard,
an event that mixes job searching with racing.
Department of Defense concurs that Indianapolis a better location than Cleveland for about 225 Marine Corps jobs.
Clarian Health officials on Thursday plan to buy four helicopters as it replaces aircraft in its aging patient-transport
fleet.
Efforts to save the former home of Crawford's Bakery at 16th Street and Capitol Avenue appear to be gaining momentum.
Police exchanged gunfire with a suspected burglar on the north side of Indianapolis early Friday morning. Officers were called
to Uncle T’s Variety Store on Evanston Avenue after an alarm sounded just before 3 a.m. Someone fired a shot at
police officers, and at least one officer returned fire. Police say the suspect got away by climbing over a nearby building
using a fire escape ladder. Police later went to a home in the 4900 block of Evanston and took a man and woman in for questioning
about the crime. At this point, police are not calling them suspects.
Police say they found bottles of hard liquor surrounding the hot tub where 37-year old Dawn Huddleston was found dead Friday
morning in Brownsburg. A 911 call came about 5 a.m. from Huddleston’s boyfriend, who told police he found his girlfriend
unresponsive in the hot tub in a home at 519 S. Grant St. The man said he went to sleep about midnight and was woken by his
barking dog hours later. He went outside and found Huddleston’s body. Police said they don't believe foul play was
involved, but an investigation and autopsy will take place.
Several schools on the south side of Indianapolis were put on lockdown Friday morning as police searched for a suspect in
two robberies. Police say a robber held up the Old National Bank branch at 5943 S. East St. about 8:15 a.m. The heist happened
about 10 minutes after another robbery, at Crown Liquors at 711 E. Thompson Road. Police aren’t sure if the same
person or people robbed both places, but they said it’s probable. Schools put on lockdown included Southport High School,
Rise Learning Center and Special Services, Henry Burkhart Elementary, Homecroft Elementary and St. Mark Catholic School. Fox59
will have more at 4 p.m.
Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen opted for the NFL rather than stay and play his final year for new pass-happy coach Brian
Kelly. That decision likely cost him in excess of $10 million.