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The city’s Capital Improvement Board approved cutting an additional $1.5 million from its annual budget yesterday and may have moved a step closer toward funding its annual operating budget with an increase in hospitality taxes. Local sports teams have been reluctant or noncommittal about shouldering a bigger financial load, CIB officials said. As a result, […]
A contractor involved in the Keystone Avenue roundabout project in Carmel could be headed to court. Late Friday, Carmel declared Milestone Contractors in default of its agreement for not meeting its schedule.
The Butler University basketball team will take on Cleveland State University tonight in a rematch of last year’s Horizon League men’s basketball tournament championship game. The third-seeded Vikings (24-10) were the preseason conference favorite, but the Bulldogs (26-4) claimed the conference’s regular-season title. Tipoff is at 9 p.m. at Hinkle Fieldhouse.
Indianapolis police took a man into custody after a shooting last night left a 7-year-old boy in serious condition. The shooting occurred in the 2400 block of West Wilkins Street, near the intersection of Morris Street and South Belmont Avenue. Police say Thomas Owens, 20, of Indianapolis admitted to shooting the boy with an assault […]
The Indianapolis Airport Authority has tapped the head of Jacksonville, Fla.’s airport authority as its new executive director and CEO. John D. Clark III also serves as chairman of the Airports Council International North America, the primary trade group for airports. He appointment will be effective April 13, pending formal approval at the March 20 […]
Prosecutors are expected to file charges today against Marion County corrections officer Sydney Eghan and his fiancee, Betsy Chestnut. They believe the couple handcuffed Chestnut’s 12-year-old son for more than six hours as a disciplinary measure. Eghan, who could face multiple charges, including criminal confinement, has been suspended without pay pending an internal investigation.
The inaugural event of the Women Like Us speaker series will feature Patricia Miller, co-founder of Fort Wayne-based Vera Bradley Designs Inc. and former Indiana secretary of commerce, among other notable participants. Linda Rendleman, author and founder of the local Business Women Connect Inc. networking organization, and Sally Brown, president of the Indianapolis-based Ambassadors for […]
Cafe Patachou owner Martha Hoover will open her seventh local restaurant tomorrow at the upscale Clay Terrace shopping center in Carmel. The eatery is Hoover’s second French-themed Petite Chou. The other is on Westfield Boulevard in Broad Ripple. The Clay Terrace location initially will serve breakfast and lunch. Dinner will be available starting April 8, […]
The Indianapolis Airport Authority has tapped the head of Jacksonville, Fla.’s airport authority as its new executive director and CEO. John D. Clark III also serves as chairman of the Airports Council International North America, the primary trade group for airports. Clark will replace John Kish, who will head the redevelopment of a municipal stadium […]
Indianapolis finds itself smack in the middle of a big national trend, thanks to President Obama’s stimulus package.
The stimulus allocates $31 billion to help doctors wire their offices to send information digitally, with the goal of improving health care and…
Slowly but surely, Indiana Pacers officials are releasing more information about their financial distress. Last month, Pacers brass told me they had lost money in nine of 10 years at Conseco Fieldhouse, including the…
Billions of stimulus dollars meant to spur doctors to switch to electronic record-keeping may not be enough to do the job, a private consulting firm said yesterday. The stimulus bill that President Barack Obama signed last month contained $19 billion for health information technology, including $17 billion for incentives and penalties to encourage doctors and […]
A Brooklyn-based real estate investment firm is spending $55 million to purchase a local apartment portfolio from one of the country’s largest owners of multi-family housing. Hampshire Properties LLC purchased six apartment communities from Denver-based Apartment Investment & Management Co., known as AIMCO. The sale totals more than 2,100 units, including the Westlake and Wind […]
Help wanted: pharmacists, engineers and nurses. Believe it or not, even some banks are hiring, at least for their technology teams. While the recession has claimed 4.4 million jobs, the economy has created others, many of them for highly trained and specialized professionals. More than 2 million jobs openings now exist across a range of […]
Eli Lilly and Co. has temporarily blocked Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. from selling a cheaper generic copy of Lilly’s osteoporosis drug Evista. U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker issued a restraining order yesterday in Lilly’s hometown of Indianapolis, keeping raloxifene HCl tablets off the market for at least 10 days. The ruling kicked off the […]
Indiana was praised yesterday as a national leader in new methods of teaching and learning in high schools. The Cincinnati-based KnowledgeWorks Foundation joined Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels in announcing that it is giving $10 million to the New Technology Foundation (New Tech), based in Napa, Calif. Both organizations promote so-called high-tech high schools. Lecture time […]
