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Funeral arrangements for a fourth grade boy killed by a school bus are being kept private. Family members will gather today to remember Christopher Michael Beltz, 10, who was struck by the bus Friday morning at Spring Mill Elementary School. The family is asking interested Hoosiers to make donations to the Northview Christian Life Church […]
A newly released list of clients of disgraced investment manager Bernard L. Madoff does not include any of Indianapolis’ most prominent businesspeople. But it does identify as clients the Hudson Institute, the prominent think tank that relocated from Indianapolis to Washington, D.C., in 2004, as well as north-side resident Howard J. Glass. The 162-page list […]
Arcadia Resources Inc., an Indianapolis-based provided of health care services, this morning reported a loss of $2.6 million on revenue of $35.2 million for its third fiscal quarter, which ended Dec. 31. The loss was 7.7 percent more than the company reported in the same period a year earlier. Arcadia provides home health care equipment, […]
Indianapolis Colts defensive end Darrell Reid faces disorderly conduct and trespassing charges following his arrest early yesterday morning on East 82nd Street near Allisonville Road. Police officers trying to clear the parking lot outside the Oxygen Lounge say Reid kept insisting he be let into the club. After repeated warnings, they arrested Reid when he […]
Rising consumer demand for locally grown, organic produce is fueling a surge in the number of small Indiana farms, boosting their numbers nearly 80 percent over five years, a new farm census report shows. The number of Indiana farms under 10 acres soared from 5,436 in 2002 to 9,720 in 2007 – a 79 percent […]
Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh will host a departure ceremony this afternoon for 60 Hoosiers soldiers heading to Afghanistan. Members of the National Guard’s 119th Agribusiness Development Team will help Afghan leaders improve their farming practices. The ceremony begins at 2 p.m. in Building 722 at the Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center.
Two drug companies, Pfizer Inc. and Eli Lilly and Co., spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions – including whether it’s a real disease at all. Key components of the industry-funded buzz over […]
Twenty five years ago, Indianapolis rolled the dice, betting that building this town on sports—amateur and professional—would be a good way to shed the Nap-town image that had dogged the city. The gamble paid off for decades, but now it’s…
Arcadia Resources Inc., an Indianapolis-based provided of health care services, this morning reported a loss of $2.6 million on revenue of $35.2 million for its third fiscal quarter, which ended Dec. 31. The loss was 7.7 percent more than the company reported in the same period a year earlier. Arcadia provides home health care equipment, […]
South Dakota-based VeraSun Energy Corp. has asked a bankruptcy court for permission to sell most of its assets by March 31, including five plants to Valero Energy Corp. for $280 million, the company said last Friday. The agreement with Valero includes a key development site in the small Indiana city of Reynolds, and production facilities […]
When President Barack Obama visits northern Indiana today to promote his economic stimulus plan, an Indianapolis company will be on hand to help his effort. The owners of Greenway Supply Inc. have been invited by the White House to join Obama in a town hall meeting in Elkhart. Obama will promote the need for green […]
Military recruiters in eastern Indiana say their recruitment figures are on the rise, partly because recently laid-off workers are signing up with Uncle Sam. Some laid-off workers have visited the U.S. Army’s recruitment office in Richmond to inquire about military careers, said Sgt. Greg Lynch, an Army recruiter. “Yes, our numbers are up, and I […]
Rising consumer demand for locally grown, organic produce is fueling a surge in the number of small Indiana farms, boosting their numbers nearly 80 percent over five years, a new farm census report shows. The number of Indiana farms under 10 acres soared from 5,436 in 2002 to 9,720 in 2007 – a 79 percent […]
Ball State University plans to drill 3,750 wells, each 400-feet deep, to tap the earth’s nearly constant temperature for campus heating and cooling. The $66 million geothermal conversion project will eliminate the university’s coal-fired boilers, which currently produce 85,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year, said Tom Kinghorn, Ball State treasurer and vice president of […]
State Rep. Charlie Brown has a simple goal: ban smoking in enclosed public places in Indiana. But Brown, a Democrat from Gary, knows getting his legislation through the General Assembly won’t be easy. The bill has been characterized as one that pits life or death against dollars and cents. But it’s not nearly so black […]
When I read the year-end statements from the 529 College Saving Plans I had established for the benefit of my grandchildren, I felt lower than a snake’s belly.
Swamped by financial losses that go back to the time Herb and Mel Simon bought the Indiana Pacers in 1983, team officials
are now looking for a new game plan—one that may involve financial assistance from taxpayers and visitors.
In early April, the 110,000-square-foot Indianapolis distribution center of California-based medical-device supplier DJO Inc.
will quietly roll out a revolutionary automated package-handling system.
Many boards of directors have not taken to heart their responsibilities, opting instead for the easier route of trusting management and operating personnel.
