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The National Association of Realtors said Monday that home resales rose 10.1 percent in October, spurred by a tax credit that
buyers
expected to expire at the end of the month.
The renewed credit deal was extended for two years and includes an option to boost the value to $1.05 billion.
Majestic Star Casino LLC owns two casinos and a hotel in Gary, a casino-hotel in Tunica County, Miss., and a casino in Black
Hawk, Colo.
California-based WindStream Technologies Inc. plans to locate a development and production facility at Purdue Research Park
of Southeast Indiana, creating more than 260 jobs by 2012.
The number of people claiming jobless aid has tripled since the recession began. The demand has drained the funds that many
states use to pay jobless claims. Nearly half the states, including Indiana, are borrowing from the federal government.
The state has approved more than $1 billion in university projects in the last 18 months.
Purdue has already cut positions and withheld pay increases. Now the school is starting to plan for long-term ways to operate
in a slumping economy.
The former Hoosiers coach will speak at a Dec. 17 fundraiser in Indianapolis to benefit the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
IBJ‘s Commercial Real Estate Focus sections include statistical snapshots of Indianapolis’ multi-tenant office vacancy
rates and the local industrial market.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Judge David Hamilton 59-39 on Thursday for a seat on the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeals. Hamilton currently sits on Indiana’s Federal District Court. Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar was the only Republican to support
his confirmation. Hamilton was President Obama’s first judicial nominee.
Emergency room visits and school absences related to the H1N1 virus are down in recent weeks, but state health care officials
say they’re bracing for a third wave of the flu this winter. Six people died last week in Indiana from apparent H1N1 complications.
That brings the H1N1 flu-related death toll in the state to 30 this year.
In Lawrence Township, district officials are considering several options to trim more than $3 million from the budget. One
idea includes closing a middle school, moving sixth-graders to elementary schools and restructuring junior highs. The school
board will discuss the proposal at its next meeting Monday night at Lawrence North High School.
Former state representative and lobbyist Luke Messer thinks Sarah Palin could carry Indiana in a presidential primary.
Indianapolis police are looking for two men who robbed the downtown Dunkin’ Donuts at Washington and Pennsylvania streets.
Two employees were opening the store when the men, wearing masks and armed with guns, broke in, forced them into a basement
room and made them take off their pants. Police have no suspects. Fox 59 will have more at 4 p.m.
Former IU and Bowling Green coach Dan Dakich takes post with Big Ten Network for men’s college basketball season. But it won’t affect his local sports-talk radio show.
Indiana’s unemployment rate inched up to 9.8 percent in October, reversing small declines recorded in the previous three months,
the Indiana Department of Workforce Development said Friday morning.
Carmel-based Conseco’s second deal with Minnesota-based Wilton Reassurance Co. will bring in $45 million.
