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Rolls-Royce PLC’s new 10-year, $400 million agreement to produce helicopter engines brings another surge of business to the company’s Indianapolis manufacturing plant. Rolls-Royce said today it will supply Fort Worth, Texas-based Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. with Model 250 engines for Bell 206 and 407 helicopters for most of the next decade. It was the second […]
The U.S. policy of shunning communist Cuba by imposing a strict trade embargo has failed to prod the island nation toward democracy and should be re-evaluated, according to the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “We must recognize the ineffectiveness of our current policy and deal with the Cuban regime in a way […]
President Barack Obama said today he would begin distributing $15 billion to the states within two days to help them with Medicaid payments to the poor. The money will begin reaching the states Wednesday from the newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus program, Obama told the nation’s governors during a meeting at the White House. […]
European Union regulators have approved the blood thinner prasugrel, Indianapolis-based drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. announced this morning. The European Commission granted marketing authorization for prasugrel, which will be sold in Europe under the brand name Efient. Lilly spokeswoman Carole Copeland said the drug will be launched “in the coming weeks,” with a separate rollout […]
Marvin Harrison’s reluctance to take a pay cut could mark the end of his career in Indianapolis. Colts president Bill Polian told reporters yesterday at the NFL’s annual scouting combine that the team was trying to rework Harrison’s deal to lower the receiver’s salary cap number from approximately $13.4 million, the highest number of any […]
Gov. Mitch Daniels was scheduled to meet with President Obama this morning to discuss the challenges facing Indiana. Daniels is in Washington for a National Governors Association meeting. Obama says he wants to make it easier for governors to lead their states out of the economic crisis. Indiana expects to get about $4 billion from […]
BorgWarner Automotive has confirmed in a state filing that 750 workers will lose their jobs at its Muncie plant, which supplies transmission components to General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. BorgWarner Inc., based in Auburn Hills, Mich., said early last year that its Muncie operation would close when the current union contract expires in […]
Indianapolis police are questioning two men this morning following an attempted robbery and shooting last night at Famous Dave’s Restaurant, 3645 Vincennes Road on the northwest side. A pair of armed men entered a back door of the restaurant around 10:30. Officers say the men fired several shots before discovering their getaway driver had fled. […]
The nation’s deepening recession has boosted business at Indiana’s pawn shops as people shed possessions – particularly electronics – for cash to pay bills. At Ace Pawn Shop in Bloomington, manager Chris Banul said business is up and he’s seeing more high-end items brought to the shop for collateral, or sold outright, as the economy […]
Sallie Rowland, founder of Indianapolis-based Rowland Design, will be honored March 19 at the inaugural Legends in Design awards ceremony. Legends in Design is sponsored by the SAFE Coalition for Design, which promotes protection of public health and safety through adoption of nationally recognized interior design standards. SAFE is an acronym for slip resistant, accessibility, […]
The Carmel Clay school board tonight will discuss ways to cut $1.85 million from next year’s budget. One option under consideration is slashing teacher positions.The meeting will start at 7 at the school district’s administrative offices, 5201 E. 131st St. Fox 59 will have more at 10 p.m.
A year into his tenure as mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard over the weekend articulated what may be the
closest thing weâ??ll hear for his vision for the city.
Ballardâ??s State of the City address touted making Indianapolis the…
The message to locally based USA Track & Field was clear. Downsize or risk losing financial support from the U.S. Olympic Committee. So USATF boss Doug Logan last week announced the board would…
The nation’s deepening recession has boosted business at Indiana’s pawn shops as people shed possessions – particularly electronics – for cash to pay bills. At Ace Pawn Shop in Bloomington, manager Chris Banul said business is up and he’s seeing more high-end items brought to the shop for collateral, or sold outright, as the economy […]
European Union regulators have approved the blood thinner prasugrel, Indianapolis-based drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. announced this morning. The European Commission granted marketing authorization for prasugrel, which will be sold in Europe under the brand name Efient. Lilly spokeswoman Carole Copeland said the drug will be launched “in the coming weeks,” with a separate rollout […]
Sallie Rowland, founder of Indianapolis-based Rowland Design, will be honored March 19 at the inaugural Legends in Design awards ceremony. Legends in Design is sponsored by the SAFE Coalition for Design, which promotes protection of public health and safety through adoption of nationally recognized interior design standards. SAFE is an acronym for slip resistant, accessibility, […]
Commuters in Greenwood can take an IndyGo bus downtown beginning March 2. The Greenwood IndyGo Commuter Express, the third IndyGo ICE route outside of Indianapolis, will depart from the Meijer Store on North State Road 135 and arrive downtown at Delaware and McCarty streets about a half-hour later. The route features five other stops downtown. […]
Marvin Harrison’s reluctance to take a pay cut could mark the end of his career in Indianapolis. Colts president Bill Polian told reporters yesterday at the NFL’s annual scouting combine that the team was trying to rework Harrison’s deal to lower the receiver’s salary cap number from approximately $13.4 million, the highest number of any […]
Donna Sharp made a good living in Elkhart even without a high school diploma, earning about $19 an hour putting stripes on recreational vehicles in this northern Indiana county known as the RV capital of the world. Then Monaco Coach Corp. announced in July that it was closing the plant in Wakarusa where Sharp worked, […]
Partisan battles over drafting state budgets in Indiana always include arguments over how much taxpayer money to spend, where the dollars should go and how they should be doled out. But, for the first time in years, the budget debate this legislative session includes a new element, and a very heated one at that: Should […]
