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Butler is winning the war of merchandise sales, leading the other three
schools in the Final Four. A victory tonight, sports marketers said, would increase those sales fivefold.
A southern Indiana amusement park in May will unveil what it touts as the world's longest water coaster. The $5.5 million
Wildebeest ride will open May 14 at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari. The ride will be a third of a mile long and
use a conveyor system to take riders up a lift hill before dropping them 38 feet. The ride uses a magnetic field under the
slide surface to move the toboggan-style rafts up hills. Park officials say the technology has been used in steel roller coasters
in the past.
Police are warning college hoops fans about counterfeit tickets on the market for Monday’s NCAA men’s basketball
national championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium between Butler University and Duke University. Over the weekend, Indianapolis
Metropolitan Police confiscated more than 140 counterfeit tickets from scalpers. One scalper arrested by police had made about
$3,500 selling fake tickets before being apprehended.
Hamilton County authorities are investigating the deaths of a man and woman found in a Westfield home on Sunday. According
to authorities, a family member discovered the victims in the back bedroom of the house in the 2700 block of 186th Street.
Cause of death for the 24-year-olds remains a mystery, but detectives tell FOX59 drug paraphernalia was found at the scene.
Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
Butler president should pounce on the outpouring of basketball publicity, former IUPUI chancellor urges.
The glitzy gadget maker says it sold hundreds of thousands of iPads on Saturday, the day they debuted for more than $499 a
pop.
The Treasury Department says potential Indiana homeowners have only until May 1 to take advantage of the First Time Homebuyer
tax credit before it expires.
As is the case at Duke, Butler graduates about 90 percent of its players. As is the case at Duke, there’s more than mere lip
service paid to the classroom at Butler.
Buoyed by good news on the jobs front, the White House claimed credit Sunday for reversing the downward economic spiral while
bracing out-of-work Americans for a slow recovery.
Indiana and Purdue may be the state's traditional basketball powerhouses, but it's little Butler—enrollment 4,200—that's big time now. Butler is writing a Hollywood hoops script, a sequel to "Hoosiers."
After plummeting along with the rest of the economy, the price of scrap metals is surging upward.
Purdue announced Friday that the new contract gives Matt Painter a $1.3 million base salary, plus up to $1 million of incentives
for academic, athletic and attendance performance.
A portion of the Monon Trail will close for a week beginning on or after April 5 for repairs to uneven pavement caused by
unruly root development. The 140-foot section is located north of 86th Street and south of 91st Street; a detour route will
be available to the west. Indy Parks’ 2009 Capital Improvement Budget is funding the $14,800 cost of the project.
A man who told his wife in a phone call that he was lost and confused has been found dead in an Indianapolis retention pond.
Police say divers found 67-year-old Tony Perkins of Indianapolis inside his vehicle on Thursday when they searched the pond
near Fall Creek Parkway North Drive and North Emerson Avenue. Perkins’ wife, Valerie, said that her husband had called
her Tuesday night and sounded disoriented. “Next thing I know, I heard a thump and then I didn't hear anything and
then the phone went dead,” Perkins said.
Police have arrested two men suspected of causing a dangerous ammonia gas leak that forced hundreds of people from their Taylorsville
homes on Tuesday. Russell Rossman, 34, of Edinburgh and Kevin Edwards, 37, of Columbus were being held without bond Thursday
in the Bartholomew County Jail on preliminary charges of attempted theft. Authorities believe the men tried to steal anhydrous
ammonia from a tank at a farm north of Columbus early Tuesday, causing a leak that triggered the evacuation of hundreds of
people from their homes. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
Butler University is bracing for a siege of publicity this weekend. The school's Web sites have been bolstered and retail
shelves are being stocked. Already more than $1.7 million in Butler merchandise has been sold.
The NCAA and city put together a deal to cover insurance and liability issues for this year’s Final Four, but are still finalizing
an agreement that assures the event comes back regularly through 2039.
