Indiana’s unemployment rate slips to 9.6 percent
Indiana’s unemployment rate ticked downward in November, falling to 9.6 percent, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development
said Friday morning.
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Indiana’s unemployment rate ticked downward in November, falling to 9.6 percent, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development
said Friday morning.
The Indianapolis Colts are 14-0 after beating the Jacksonville Jaguars 35-31 Thursday night. The team put together its
seventh fourth-quarter comeback of the season. The Colts have just two games left in the regular season, at home against the
New York Jets and in Buffalo.
Police have released the identity of a woman killed in a crash late Thursday night on the south side of Indianapolis. Rachel
Deutsch, 24, was thrown from her car on Madison Avenue. A witness said Deutsch’s vehicle weaved around before hitting a curb,
and then a building and a light pole. Police do not think she was wearing a seat belt.
The Hoosier State is one of the least-happy states in the country, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. Only Michigan, Connecticut and New York fared worse. The CDC study suggests the country’s happiest people
live in the sunniest states. Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida, Tennessee and Arizona make up the top five. Fox 59 will have more
at 4 p.m.
Hundreds of potential contractors turned out for informational meetings this week about construction work on a new Wishard Memorial Hospital.
The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS will be the official pace car for next May’s Indianapolis 500. It’ll be the sixth time a Camaro
has paced the race.
Group presidents tell Indiana senators that the reform bill would expand dysfunctions of current health care systems.
General Growth Properties, the Chicago mall owner that Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group Inc. is interested in buying, said the company will consider all offers and may sell shares to the public to raise capital.
In his first public appearance in Indiana since skipping his own induction into the Indiana University Hall of Fame last month,
former basketball coach Bob Knight criticized a proposed NCAA tournament expansion to 96 teams, saying nobody should get a bye in the
Big Dance.
Indianapolis’ new $1.1 billion airport terminal faces at least two nagging functionality issues: inadequate protection during
inclement weather at the second-level passenger drop-off platform and sunlight that floods the ticket lobby, making computer
screens hard to read.
As first reported by IBJ on Nov. 28, the men’s tennis event that is leaving Indianapolis is heading to Atlanta, the ATP confirmed.
Daily newspapers on Thursday filed a motion seeking to unseal search warrant documents related to the federal investigation
of Indianapolis businessman Tim Durham and Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co.
Doug Logan is shaking up the sport and hopes to add more events, which could pay off for Indianapolis.
Carl Brizzi partnered on a bank branch, took an ownership interest in an office building and flipped condos.
Steve Taylor loves to tell his NFL war stories. There’s the time he taunted Baltimore Ravens linebacker
Ray Lewis and the many times he’s been flattened by an overzealous tackler. Then there was the thrill of his Indianapolis
Colts’ clinching a trip to the Super Bowl.
Roche Diagnostics Corp., once the darling of the U.S. diabetes-device market, is now licking its wounds. And
it’s mulling whether to keep fighting on all fronts or to pull back.
Indianapolis has fared better than some airports in terms of declining revenue, with passengers down
about 10 percent for much of the year and revenue off 16 percent at one point.
Founder Steve Tolen started out to make an electric car and wound up with a device to blend and regulate power among different
types of electric batteries.
The minority-owned logistics firm is also involved in a legal battle with a Washington state firm over the loss of its Boeing
business.
Judge Sarah Evans Barker declared a Massachusetts woman in contempt of court for failing to remove her negative Internet
postings about an Indianapolis cosmetic surgeon.