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A suspect is in custody after authorities say he stabbed a Columbus, Ind., police officer during a confrontation over a property
dispute. Police say 38-year-old Carl Drucker II stabbed Officer Marc Hutcheson about 4:20 p.m. Tuesday. Drucker was shot in
the arm and escaped, but was found after a three-hour manhunt. The officer was treated and released from the hospital.
The Indiana Secretary of State’s securities division says Indiana State Teachers Association can’t account for $23 million
intended for
school districts, requests assets be frozen.
Opening statements began Wednesday in the trial of a second man accused in the worst mass murder in Indianapolis history.
James Stewart helped Desmond Turner rob and kill seven people at their east-side home three years ago, prosecutors say. Turner
was recently convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. The trial is expected to last at least a week.
A new report by the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board endorses a raise for Carmel Clay teachers aimed at resolving
a contract dispute between the teachers union and the school corporation. Carmel teachers have been working without a contract
for more than a year and a half. The recommendations include a 1-percent raise during the first year of a three-year contract,
followed by a 1-percent raise each following year. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
Some Indianapolis Colts supporters think it’s time to consider cutting oft-injured Bob Sanders loose. But team president Bill
Polian promises No. 21 "will be back and better than ever."
Indianapolis-based Hansen & Horn Group Inc. is without legal representation after attorneys defending the troubled
home builder from a slew of lawsuits dropped it as a client.
The combined firm will have more than 8,700 members and more than $20 million in assets.
Columbus engine maker Cummins Inc. will idle at least 400 workers at a manufacturing facility in Jamestown, N.Y., because
of a change in emission standards that will cut production from 500 engines a day to 100.
The acquisition of DeTrude & Co. by Shepherd Insurance marks the 13th purchase of an Indianapolis-area benefits brokerage since mid-2007.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. has won a bid to dismiss part of a negligence lawsuit brought by Mississippi that alleges
improper marketing of antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for unapproved uses.
The locally based Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association will bring its fall trade show back to Indianapolis
in 2011 and 2012—making good on a promise to return after a $275 million expansion of the Indiana Convention Center.
An Indiana House committee has set Dec. 16 as the day it will take up a bill to tighten lobbying and ethics rules.
At Churchill Downs, a star-packed music festival is coming. Could Indiana casinos follow the lead?
A Purdue University farm expert says Indiana’s farmers could see a big increase in property taxes over the next few years
if state lawmakers don’t retool the state’s farmland taxation formulas.
Peru recreational vehicle maker Riverside Travel Trailer Inc. will expand its Miami County operations, creating 100 new jobs
by 2011, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. announced Wednesday morning.
Storytelling Arts of Indiana presents Bill Lepp, Dec. 4-5 at the Indiana History Center. Details here.
Butler Ballet presents “The
Nutcracker,” Dec. 3-6 at Clowes Memorial Hall. Details here.
Central Indiana Dance Ensemble presents “The Nutcracker,”
Dec. 4-6 at Zionsville Performing Arts Center. Details here.
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre presents “The Nutcracker,”
Dec. 4-6 at Pike Performing Arts Center. Details here.
The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art opens "Projected
Curiosity," Dec. 4 at its temporary new home at the Murphy Art Center in Fountain Square. Details here.
regory
Hancock Dance Theatre presents “The Nutcracker,” Dec. 4-6 at Pike Performing Arts Center. Details
here.
http://www.gregoryhancockdancetheatre.org
Dec. 5
Indiana History Center
Whether it’s an episode guide to “South Park,”
a soup cookbook, or a photographic history of Burger Chef, it’s difficult to predict what you’ll find at the Indiana
History Center’s annual author fair. This year, more than 80 select authors will be in attendance, available from noon
to 4 to answer questions and sell their wares. The bestselling writer there will be historical fiction specialist James Alexander
Thom, with his latest, “St. Patrick’s Battalion.”
Speakers in the Basile Theater throughout the day
include Dick Wolfsie (“Mornings with Barney”), photographer Terry Border (creator of the odd, inspired “Bent
Objects”), travel writer Jane Fortune (“To Florence, Con Amore”), and yours truly. Details here.
Dec. 4
ArtBox Gallery
Twenty artists have each been asked to create a singe piece of art based
on the theme “Toys.” Their creations should make the Artbox Gallery at the Stutz II building a great place to
launch a journey through the December edition of the monthly First Friday downtown gallery tour.
Other potentially
interesting stops: Dean Johnson Gallery features three designers approaching the vase, the urn and furniture; the Harrison
Center for the Arts hosts the color-themed “Black and White and Read All Over;” and G.C. Lucas Gallery, for its
final opening on Mass Ave., features “Exploring New Ways,” which includes paintings and solar-plate etchings by
Montana artists Nicholas Oberling and Jennifer Li.
Details on “Toys” here. For a full First Friday rundown, click here.
