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Indianapolis logistics firm Backhaul Direct LLC will invest $1.7 million to grow its downtown operation, adding nearly 325 jobs over the next four years. State officials announced the expansion plans Thursday morning.
Indianapolis-based Brightpoint Inc., which helps cell phone makers manage their supply chains, said Wednesday that it is re-entering Poland, a market it exited two years ago at the height of the global downturn.
The Indiana House Public Health Committee voted 9-3 to endorse the bill prohibiting smoking in public places and indoor work sites—after it exempted casinos and pari-mutuel horse tracks from the ban.
Drivers wouldn’t be allowed to send or read text messages on cell phones under a bill approved by an Indiana House committee.
Mark Singer, who was convicted of scheming to steal as much as $27 million set aside to maintain the graves of people who had paid in advance for their funerals, has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Republican Sen. Mike Delph of Carmel said it makes sense to start school after Labor Day because families would have more summer vacation time together.
Vice President Joe Biden was in Greenfield, about 25 miles east of Indianapolis, on Wednesday morning to visit an EnerDel plant that received a $118.5 million Recovery Act grant in 2009 to expand its lithium-ion battery production.
State budget director Adam Horst said he misspoke when he told the State Budget Committee last week that Daniels&’ proposal would eliminate Medicaid coverage for hearing aids.
The House Education Committee is considering a bill to allow more charter schools, which are public schools that are free of certain state regulations. The bill also allows charters to share state transportation funds with traditional public schools.
A mother and her boyfriend have been arrested and face charges in the death of the woman’s 2-year-old daughter. Tyneise Quiller was found dead inside their home at 201 Parkview Ave. in Indianapolis on Dec. 7. An autopsy revealed Quiller died of multiple blunt-force injuries. Her mother, 21-year-old Tiara Peoples, and 24-year-old Terrence Taylor are in custody, charged with neglect of a dependant causing death, a class A felony.
Noblesville resident Holly Jones, 20, is in critical condition and in a medically induced coma after a sledding accident on a hill in Forest Park. Jones was airlifted from Noblesville's Riverview Hospital to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis Sunday night after the accident. Jones and her cousin were riding an inflatable tube and hit a dip in the hill, propelling her from the tube. She landed on the back of her head, causing a basal skull fracture. Jones’ parents said emergency workers told them there have been numerous sledding accidents on the hill in the past.
Police say icy roads are causing accidents in parts of Indiana following a night of freezing drizzle. Traffic was moving slowly along Interstate 70’s eastbound lanes about 30 miles east of Indianapolis at 10 a.m. Wednesday after being closed earlier because of crashes. State police said traffic was moving slowly along Interstate 69 north of Indianapolis in Hamilton and Madison counties following several crashes and slide-offs. Portions of the highway had been closed for a time overnight due to the slick conditions. I-69 at the 10 mile-marker in Fishers was shut down until crews could clean up an accident, while more crews were assisting drivers sliding off the 116th Street exit ramp into a ditch.
Expect Colts quarterback to a sign back-loaded contract that he has no intention of playing out.
A $70 million investment in a new distribution center by the North Carolina-based discount retailer is expected to create up to 350 jobs. The facility should be operational by spring 2012.
Large conventions typically get the most attention, but it’s the smaller meetings that will be critical to ensuring the expanded Indiana Convention Center is adequately occupied.
Building permits filed for new homes in the nine-county Indianapolis area rose just 2.6 percent in 2010, to 3,720. That’s just 95 more homes than in 2009—the worst year for local home construction in more than a quarter century.
The Salvation Army of Indiana announced Wednesday morning that it reached its holiday fundraising goal of $2.93 million after a last-minute appeal.
Daniel Blanco took a serious shot at the restaurant biz, working 19-hour days as both a truck driver and owner of a South American eatery, with more on the way.
One of the top executives at Brightpoint Inc. is leaving the Indianapolis-based cell phone distributor to take a similar position at Simon Property Group.
An Indiana House committee has endorsed a bill that would allow residents to add their cell phone numbers to the state's do-not-call list for unwanted telemarketing calls.
