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Indiana voters seem willing to pay more in property taxes to help school districts cover operating costs. The results of last
week’s referendums, however, continue the trend against supporting plans for bigger, better schools during tough economic
times.
The Nature Conservancy’s new $10-million headquarters has enough environmentally friendly features to qualify for the highest
level of LEED certification.
Work is on schedule for a new headquarters for The Nature Conservancy of Indiana, which includes a variety of first-in-Indianapolis
"green" features. Tour the building
through IBJ’s narrated slideshow.
Izod officials said they signed their title sponsorship deal despite the fact that the series’ iconic leader Tony George was
shown the door during negotiations.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels on Friday announced a series of spending cuts and other steps designed to offset a continuing multimillion-dollar
decline in state revenues. If the trend continues without spending cuts, he said, Indiana’s reserves would be wiped out by
next August.
A traffic stop for a seat-belt violation yesterday afternoon led to a chase and a 40-foot fall. Richard Stedman, 44, was pulled
over in Plainfield because one of his two passengers wasnâ??t buckled in, according to police. After his passengers got out
of the car, Stedman took off, leading police onto Interstate 70 at speeds close to 100 mph. The car chase ended at Indianapolis
International Airport when Stedman hit a retaining wall at the arrival ramp, got out of the vehicle and jumped over the wall.
Stedman, who has outstanding warrants for burglary and receiving stolen property, was taken to Wishard Hospital with serious
injuries.
California-based life science firm Beckman Coulter Inc. is moving its precision plastics injection molding operation
to the Park 100 business park on Indianapolis’ northwest side, making what it calls a multimillion-dollar investment in the
operation.
In the latest in a string of assaults at Ball State University, student Kyle Evans, 23, was attacked at 3:30 a.m. Thursday
as he walked home from a bar. Police say a group of men attacked him with baseball bats and Tasers, and then stole his wallet
and cell phone. The victim was rushed to the hospital with a head injury and is recovering. No suspects were caught.
One of the 30 people wounded in yesterdayâ??s shooting massacre in Ford Hood, Texas, is from Indiana. Natahn Hewitt, who was
raised in Lafayette, was shot in the hip and the calf. He’s in a hospital, but expected to recover. Hewitt served in Iraq
and was due to ship off to Afghanistan within the next two months. Thirteen people were killed in the shooting. Fox 59 will
have more at 4 p.m.
Nearly 16 million people can’t find jobs even though one of the the worst recessions in generations has apparently ended.
Batesville Casket Co., the world’s largest manufacturer, says it’s watching, but isn’t worried.
The city has agreed to hand over architectural artifacts from a landmark downtown building to a historic preservation group. The Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana plans to auction off pieces from the parapet that once stood atop the Indianapolis News-Goodman Jewelers Building along Washington Street. The building, just east of the Conrad Hotel, now is […]
President Barack Obama is set to sign a $24-billion economic stimulus bill providing tax incentives to prospective homebuyers
and extending unemployment benefits to the longtime jobless who have been left behind as the economy veers toward recovery.
Indiana’s school chief warned school superintendents Thursday that declining state revenues could force cuts in public education
spending, education officials said.
Jeff Belskus, CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, called the sponsorship deal “one of the most significant announcements
in the history
of the IndyCar series.”
Every neighborhood has its battles, but the 1,017-resident Centennial subdivision in Westfield is embroiled in one of the
most unusual: a very public fight over the adequacy of its phone, Internet and video service.
Lucas Oil Stadium suite holders are upset that the NCAA is taking their luxury boxes for the men’s basketball Final Four
in April and reselling them on the secondary—or scalpers—market.
Making money in earphones will require higher sales volumes, but Klipsch CEO Fred Klipsch thinks there are plenty more consumers
left for his company to tap.
With apologies to the rock group King Crimson, who recorded a song in the late ’60s called “21st Century
Schizoid Man,” I’d like to draw attention to our city’s split personality. Good Indianapolis.
Bad Indianapolis.
The most obvious use for the old Wishard site is an expansion of the Indiana University School of Medicine, particularly for
medical research space, university administrators said.
