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Two people are in the hospital after an early morning fight on the west side in the 800 block of South Belleview Place. Dispatchers say the female victim and her boyfriend fought with her ex-boyfriend and his father. The woman was beaten, pistol-whipped and stabbed. She was taken to Wishard Hospital with a punctured lung. […]
Indiana’s first Miss America is back in the Hoosier State. Katie Stam and Gov. Mitch Daniels met with a sixth grade class from KIPP Academy this morning and talked with students about health, and participated in several fitness activities at the National Institute of Fitness and Sport, 250 University Boulevard. At 3:30, Stam will speak […]
An Anderson man is behind bars, accused in what police are calling one of the most heinous cases of sexual abuse they’ve ever investigated. Randy Horton, 26, was arrested Monday on suspicion of molesting a 7-year-old girl. Horton is being held on $100,000 bond.
Brad Davis, the former CEO of Davis Homes LLC, has launched an Indianapolis-based residential construction business. Davis Building Group will build custom, on-your-lot homes for clients, and purchase vacant homes and remodel them for sale, it said. The company also will offer remodeling services. Davis Homes was one of the area’s leading home builders for […]
State officials had high hopes for an investment pool created last year to give Indiana’s school districts and local governments a safe, short-term place to deposit taxpayer money and earn interest. Then the economy tanked. The account’s daily interest rate fell from 3.23 percent last February to just 0.53 percent today. Its balance dwindled from […]
Clarian Health Partners and Bloomington Hospital entered into an agreement this morning to begin planning for a potential affiliation between the two health care providers. The 18-month planning process will include input from a 25-member community task force and be spearheaded by Kaufman Hall and Associates, a Skokie, Ill.-based health care consultancy hired by Bloomington […]
A leading state senator wants to rely on money from the federal stimulus package to give a slight spending increase to Indiana’s public schools. Senate Appropriations Chairman Luke Kenley (R-Noblesville) said yesterday that he is still developing his proposal. But he wants to use $683 million in stimulus money in hopes of increasing basic funding […]
Brad Davis, the former CEO of Davis Homes LLC, has launched an Indianapolis-based residential construction business. Davis Building Group will build custom, on-your-lot homes for clients, and purchase vacant homes and remodel them for sale, it said. The company also will offer remodeling services. Davis Homes was one of the area’s leading home builders for […]
Despite the recession, local e-mail marketing firm ExactTarget Inc. is still growing fast. This morning the company announced it added more than 1,000 clients last year, including Advance Auto Parts, Priceline.com and Trip Advisor, boosting its revenue more than 50 percent. ExactTarget now has more than 7,000 customers. Revenue now has increased for 32 consecutive […]
Raising local hospitality taxes and trimming funding to local cultural organizations are among the possible solutions the Capital Improvement Board’s finance committee identified this morning to help chip away at the organization’s looming $38 million budget deficit. The CIB board will meet Monday to consider the options presented by the finance committee. A 1 percentage-point […]
Ok, it will probably never happen. But since the word ‘probably’ is in the previous sentence, it would be a dereliction of duty not to explore the Indianapolis Colts’ possible signing of Terrell Owens. The…
Barack Obama’s $75 million plan to stop the carnage in the housing industry aims to help 9 million homeowners refinance mortgages or restructure loans in order to lower payments.
As Obama and Congress hammer out a bailout, to what…
Here’s some of the info pulled from the National Endowment for the Arts study, released yesterday, titled “Artists in a Year of Recession: Impact on Jobs in 2008.” For the full document, click here.
— “The artist unemployment rate grew…
Clarian Health Partners and Bloomington Hospital entered into an agreement this morning to begin planning for a potential affiliation between the two health care providers. The 18-month planning process will include input from a 25-member community task force and be spearheaded by Kaufman Hall and Associates, a Skokie, Ill.-based health care consultancy hired by Bloomington […]
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. has put its pharmacy benefits-management business up for sale, according to a report in today’s Financial Times. The London-based business newspaper, citing sources familiar with the matter, said the business could be worth more than $1 billion and as much as $5 billion. A WellPoint spokeswoman told the newspaper that the company […]
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a $6.7 million jury award to a musician who lost her arm because of a botched injection of an anti-nausea medication. The court brushed away a plea for limiting lawsuits against drug makers. The decision in Wyeth v. Levine is likely to have ramifications for big drug companies, including Indianapolis-based […]
A leading state senator wants to rely on money from the federal stimulus package to give a slight spending increase to Indiana’s public schools. Senate Appropriations Chairman Luke Kenley (R-Noblesville) said yesterday that he is still developing his proposal. But he wants to use $683 million in stimulus money in hopes of increasing basic funding […]
Prescription-drug imports to the United States would be allowed under a bill introduced by former presidential candidate John McCain and two other senators, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. The plan, sponsored by McCain (R-Ariz.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), is supported by President Barack Obama’s budget, but is opposed by the nation’s pharmaceutical industry, […]
Chances are, only a handful of people in attendance when Oregon-based BodyVox visited Pike Performing Arts Center on Feb. 28 had ever seen the group before.
Think about that.
Think about the faith exhibited by the act of buying tickets and showing…
State officials had high hopes for an investment pool created last year to give Indiana’s school districts and local governments a safe, short-term place to deposit taxpayer money and earn interest. Then the economy tanked. The account’s daily interest rate fell from 3.23 percent last February to just 0.53 percent today. Its balance dwindled from […]
