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Indy Racing League cars will be outfitted with a new gear, this one allowing them to go backwards. It will help teams that
wipe out on road courses and take pressure off tracks’ safety crews.
Indianapolis police are investigating the city’s second and third homicides of the new year. The first shooting happened
Thursday morning at Chuck’s Mobile Home Park in the 5200 block of Massachusetts Avenue on the north side. Officers responding
to reports of gunshots at about 9 a.m. found a male victim they say is in his mid-40s. No suspect was found. A half-hour later
officers responded to another fatal shooting on the north side, this one near 46th Street and Haverford Avenue. Police say
Gerald Alexander was shot in the head after answering a knock at the front door.
Snowfall snarled traffic on central Indiana highways Thursday morning as police reported numerous crashes. Dozens of school
districts across the state canceled classes as the National Weather Service issuing winter storm warnings or advisories for
the entire state. Snow is expected to continue throughout the day. State police say a semitrailer driver was critically injured
in a crash on northbound Interstate 65 near Columbus. Police also closed sections of I-65 near Franklin and Lebanon and I-70
near Greenfield at times because of crashes and slide-offs. Numerous slide-offs also were reported on I-69 near Anderson.
A driver was reported killed in a crash with a school bus on U.S. 231 near Delphi. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
Wanda Robertson was sentenced to eight years in prison, with four years suspended, after pleading guilty Wednesday.
The long-term outlook for health care reform is uncertain, but many analysts are expecting big health insurers like Indianapolis-based
WellPoint to benefit in 2010.
John J. Greisch was most recently president of international operations at Baxter International Inc.
MedTech, whose flagship campus is located on the city’s northeast side, provides degrees in biotechnology and nursing, as
well as in other health-care related programs.
Programs similar to the Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship will begin this year in Ohio and Michigan and up to two
other states.
The House could also advance a bill Thursday that would tighten lobbying and ethics rules in the General Assembly.
Indiana University must cut $58.9 million from its budget over the remainder of the state’s two-year budget cycle.
The only merged city-county government in the state is in Indianapolis, which underwent its consolidation in the early 1970s.
Attorney General Greg Zoeller says he’ll look at the constitutionality of parts of the federal health care bill, including
the so-called Nebraska compromise.
A state senator said his committee will consider legislation that would allow riverboat casinos on Lake Michigan and the Ohio
River to move inland in hopes of staving off new competition from neighboring states.
AthenaPowerLink selects Carmel firm Mitsch Design as the first woman-owned business it will assist locally.
Employing relatives or pals can be a godsend or a nightmare for small firms. And anecdotal evidence suggests it could be even
rougher on women business owners than it is on men.
The zoo says it drew 1.05
million visitors during 2009, down from 1.1 million in 2008.
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra presents Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with guest soloist Vadim
Gluzman, Jan. 7-9 at Hilbert Circle Theatre. Details here.
Through Feb. 7 Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre It’s January, and that means the
musicians at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre get to take a break while the stage is turned over to a song-less comedy. This
time, it’s Larry Shue’s oft-staged “The Foreigner,” a 1983 hit about a shy man whose pal tells others
that he doesn’t speak English. Jeff Stockberger, no stranger to door-slamming silliness after appearing in B&B’s
“Don’t Dress for Dinner” and “Run for Your Wife,” leads a cast that includes Sarah Hund of “Smoke
on the Mountain” and Indy’s favorite Santa, Ty Stover. Details here.
Jan. 9
