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The Indiana Senate is expected to vote this afternoon on whether to approve tax breaks for films shot in Indiana by overriding a veto from Gov. Mitch Daniels. The legislature passed the bill last year to offer film and video production companies tax breaks of up to 15 percent of costs for projects under $6 […]

Stock in HhGregg Inc. shot up 11 percent this morning after the Indianapolis-based appliance and electronics retailer posted a 38.5-percent increase in profit in its third fiscal quarter. The shares traded near $13.13, up $1.30. The $15.1 million in profit for the period ended Dec. 31 amounted to 45 cents per share. Analysts surveyed by […]

None of the roughly 25 parties that have shown interest in buying the Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City, N.J., have told the trustee overseeing the Tropicana that they want the Casino Aztar sister property in Evansville, according to the Evansville Courier & Press. However, the trustee, Gary Stein, added that potential buyers might be speaking […]

A Greenwood human resources firm plans to construct a 47,153-square-foot office building along Interstate 65 near a campus opened recently by Indiana Wesleyan University. Tilson HR Inc. has contracted with Alderson Commercial Group to build the $6.5-million, two-story structure on one of the few remaining tracts in South Park Business Center, according to the Daily […]

A union that’s organizing janitors in Indianapolis and other cities plans to deliver 100,000 candy hearts to Central Indiana Corporate Partnership at noon today to represent the number of people in Indianapolis the union says are without health insurance. Central Indiana Corporate Partnership is a not-for-profit of CEOs of the region’s largest corporations and university […]

The lawyer who accidentally sent an e-mail to a New York Times reporter about settlement talks underway with Eli Lilly and Co. asked that the reporter not use information from the e-mail in a story. However, the reporter, Alex Berenson, quickly dispelled any notion of keeping it under wraps. “And I said, you know, are […]

Pended house sales in the nine-county Indianapolis area fell 12.2 percent in January from the same month last year, according to figures released today. The region saw 1,962 pended sales, compared to 2,235 in January 2007, said F.C. Tucker Co., which based the news on figures gathered by the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors. Pended sales are […]

Vanguard National Trailer Corp. has reduced its operations from two shifts to one, but did not cut workers, joining other truck-trailer makers that are responding to a slowdown in the market, reports The Herald Journal of Monticello. Vanguard National is a unit of China International Marine Containers Co. Ltd. and has its operations in the […]

New York insurer MetLife Inc. is closing its call center at 9001 Wesleyan Road and shifting the employees to working from home, the company said today. Approximately 89 workers take calls for auto and home claims. The office is located near Interstate 465 and North Michigan Road.

Powerway Inc., an Indianapolis-based developer of manufacturing quality control software, today gave CEO H. Dave Chambliss the additional title of chairman. Prior to his association with Powerway, Chambliss was chief operating officer for Georgia-based Visiprise Inc., which specializes in integrated manufacturing operations solutions. While at Visiprise, he led operations through the company’s acquisition of HMS […]