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The Indiana State Teachers Association might shoot itself in the foot in its standoff with the state’s school chief.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett invites heads of teachers unions to meeting to publicly share reform ideas instead of “bureaucratic rhetoric and no
specifics.”
There's a simple reason why Butler sophomore Gordon Hayward won't be in a Bulldogs uniform next year. And it has as
much to do with the CBA as the NBA. And a few million dollars.
An Indiana climate specialist says the state's spring planting forecast is looking good, with rain and temperatures expected
to be close to normal. Associate state climatologist Ken Scheeringa said many Indiana farmers are eager to plant this month
after last year's slow, wet start to the planting season. He said the forecast for the rest of the spring looks much better
than a year ago, when the state's weather was dominated by the La Nina weather cycle's cool, wet conditions.
Greenwood police have made an arrest in the city’s first bank robbery since 2008. Police say 30-year-old Eric Brokamp
used a BB gun on Monday to rob the Bloomfield State Bank at East Main Street and Emerson Avenue. After police released a surveillance
photo, someone called in an anonymous tip. Police tracked down the suspect and arrested him at his home in a trailer park
on Timberline Drive.
Organizers of tax-day tea parties across the country expect thousands of demonstrators to participate in local rallies Thursday,
including one in Indianapolis. The second annual Tax Day Tea Party outside the Indiana Statehouse kicks off at 3 p.m. with
a meet-and-greet event with local, state and federal political candidates. The rally officially begins at 5 p.m. Nationwide,
organizers want to project an image of peaceful people upset by big spending, high taxes and a burdensome federal government.
Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
Cook Group Chairman Steve Ferguson is target of complaint that charges he and others violated federal racketeering laws by
serving
on an entity that recommended a team that included Bill Cook to develop the French Lick Resort project.
Newcomer Carmel Repertory Theatre lands $75,000 from city.
CEO Donald Brown saw a 32.4-percent increase in total compensation last year as the software-maker's shares soared 169
percent.
Indianapolis-based WellPoint “reclassified” more than half a billion dollars of administrative expenses as medical
expenses when it was defining its medical-loss ratio, according to a report released by U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller’s
office.
The Kelley School of Business' "Evening MBA" program at IUPUI finished 10th overall and fourth among public
business schools in U.S. News & World Report's inaugural ranking of part-time MBA programs.
The Indiana delegation plans to visit Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom on a job- and investment-attraction mission.
The proposed plan will expand the Indiana National Guard's Camp Atterbury, bring economic development to south-central
Indiana, and open a new fish and wildlife area in Putnam County in western Indiana.
State insurance officials are warning Indiana residents about questionable health insurance policies being offered by companies
touting themselves as associations.
TailGate Beer said it will invest millions of dollars in machinery, equipment and energy-efficiency upgrades to establish
operations in an existing 48,000-square-foot building in Franklin Business Park.
Butler University star sophomore Gordon Hayward does not plan to hire an agent, which means he could return to school if he
does not like his draft status.
Eighteen states, including Indiana, argue the federal government cannot force citizens to buy health insurance coverage.