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Kroger Co., the grocery chain headquartered in Cincinnati, said today it is starting a “television network” that will pipe video into employee break rooms and possibly other locations. The video will tout everything from Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels’ InShape Indiana health program to communications with food bank personnel. Production of the videos for the central […]

Indiana University men’s basketball players are threatening to boycott the remainder of the season if coach Kelvin Sampson is forced out, CBS Sports reported this morning. CBS says players made the threat during a heated meeting last night with Athletic Director Rick Greenspan. For more, go to The Score, IBJ’s sports blog.

Officials of Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin are refusing to disclose some terms of the contract with its new CEO, Larry Heydon. Neither Heydon nor trustees of the 149-bed hospital, which is owned by Johnson County, will discuss the length of the contract and any severance package Heydon might have been offered, among other details, […]

Purdue University’s colleges of engineering and technology each will receive $1.1 million in planned gifts from 1976 engineering graduate Rick Kosdrosky and his wife, Cheryl. The donations, announced today, are unrestricted, which means the colleges will be able to use them as they wish. The pledges will be paid when the couple dies. Both Rick […]

The 200-plus workers EDS plans to add at Purdue Research Park will be housed in 45,000 square feet of a new, 78,000-square-foot office building. Called Innovation Center, the building will open in early 2009, the university said as part of this afternoon’s announcement. Many of the new positions will be software engineers and business analysts. […]

Hotel giant White Lodging Services said today it will expand its headquarters in the northwestern Indiana town of Merrillville and add 100 jobs within four years. Two buildings on the town’s southwest side will be renovated at a cost of $4 million. The project will result in 60,000 square feet of space, according to the […]

Brian W. Casey, a Harvard University administrator, has been chosen as the next president of DePauw University. DePauw officials were scheduled to make the announcement this morning. Casey, 44, has been associate dean for academic affairs in the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard since 2005. Prior to that post, Casey was assistant provost […]

Officials and business owners in Yorktown say employees of Marsh Supermarkets claim the grocery store chain is considering moving jobs to their town from the company’s Indianapolis headquarters. However, The Star-Press of Muncie reported, Marsh wouldn’t confirm or deny the talk. Also, Roy Budd, who leads a Muncie-area economic development group called Energize-ECI, cautioned that […]

Construction on the Getrag transmission plant north of Indianapolis will resume Monday, now that the German transmission maker and its partner on the project, Chrysler LLC, have settled a dispute. The companies wouldn’t discuss the issue that caused work on the $530 million project near Tipton to grind to a halt on Dec. 21, according […]

Xenia Miller, the widow of Columbus industrialist J. Irwin Miller, died Tuesday at the age of 90, according to The Republic of Columbus. The Morgantown native supported causes ranging from downtown redevelopment to bringing to Columbus art by Dale Chihuly, whose tower of blown glass is a permanent sculpture in the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. […]