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Muncie police are investigating the deaths of two infants within months of each other at a caregiver’s house. Caregiver
Tina Byrd said when she checked on the infant Tuesday afternoon he wasn’t breathing. In November, a 2-month-old baby died
while at Byrd’s home. Police investigated that case but found nothing suspicious. Now, police are examining both cases.
Police say an Indianapolis officer drove over a man who was lying on a road after being struck by another vehicle in a hit-and-run.
The officer reported that he was driving on the city’s south side on Emerson Avenue near Edgewood Avenue early Wednesday when
he saw the man in the roadway too late to avoid hitting him. Investigators found blood and auto parts not belonging to the
police cruiser where the man apparently had been hit. Mark Nelson, 26, of Indianapolis died a few hours later at Wishard Memorial
Hospital. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
Battery maker EnerDel could land $3 million in federal disaster-recovery money that would help bring 200 more jobs to its
facilities on the north side of Indianapolis and in Noblesville.
Mall retailer The Finish Line Inc. has agreed to forfeit a potentially lucrative tax-abatement deal because it won’t be able
to meet a 2008 promise to create almost 200 jobs and invest $24 million at its Indianapolis headquarters.
Arts organizations fill out their winter/spring lineups.
Knauf Insulation in Shelbyville appoints a company executive to its newly created position of CEO of North American operations.
Kerasotes, the nation’s sixth-largest movie house chain, has four theaters in the Indianapolis area; AMC, the No. 2 player, has two.
Proceeds from the offering will be used for general corporate purposes and to fund the purchase of senior notes.
A former attorney who pleaded guilty to mail fraud has been sentenced to three years probation for submitting inflated bids
on foreclosed homes to the company for which he worked and pocketing the difference.
An Indiana House committee approves legislation that would ban smoking in most public places statewide.
Expect another year of rising vacancies, declining property values and distressed sales in the central Indiana commercial
real estate
market. That’s the message from Colliers Turley Martin Tucker in its annual State of Real Estate report.
Freda Lockhart was the first woman to open dealerships for Cadillac and Saturn automobiles.
Governor acknowledges the economy has been taking a toll on state government and the lives of many Indiana residents.
The court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Emmis in its bid to get a popular radio station it operates in Hungary back on the air.
The Indiana Senate has given final approval to a proposal that would allow voters to decide whether property tax limits belong
in the state constitution.
“Cheech & Chong—Get It Legal,” Jan. 22 at the Murat Theatre. Details
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“Bedknobs and Broomsticks,”
Jan. 22-23 at the Artcraft Theatre. Details
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Winter Nights Films: “Arsenic and Old Lace,” Jan. 22 at
the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Details
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The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
and soloist Yuju Wang play Rachmaninoff, Jan. 22-23 at Hilbert Circle Theatre. Details
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Jan. 21
Clowes Hall
The panelists for this open-to-the-public discussion of the positive and
negative impact of hip-hop includes Beyonce’s manager, Mathew Knowles; activist and BET host Jeff Johnson; and Sandy
Denton, the Pepa of the group Salt-N-Pepa. It’s free, but tickets are required. Details here.
Through Feb. 27
Indiana Repertory Theatre
In the IRT’s new staging of the classic, the
language is still Shakespeare’s, but the setting is post-World War II America, the Montagues are white, and the Capulets
are black. Two new-to the-IRT actors, Chicago’s Claire Aubin Fort and Erik Hellman, play the title roles in a cast rounded
out by such familiar IRT faces as David Alan Anderson (“Looking Over the President’s Shoulder”), Ryan Artzberger
(“Rabbit Hole”) and Ben Tebbe (“A Christmas Carol”). Details here.
Jan. 23
Indiana History Center’s Basile Theatre
The title is a little misleading. Yes,
there will be a conversation with 2009 American Pianists Association Fellow Adam Golka. But the early evening show also includes
music by the likes of Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms and Bartok.
The evening also marks the launch of ICOnic, the Chamber
Orchestra’s new series of events for young professionals. This time, the party moves over to Zing Restaurant for post-show
socializing. Details here.
Hey, wait a minute! That was the reaction, somewhat delayed, by the Indiana chapter of the National Federation
of Independent Business, to a late-December change to federal health reform legislation. The
Senate version of reform exempts companies with fewer than 50 employees from a requirement to provide
health benefits. But in late December, Senate leaders made a change for construction firms, saying the
exemption would apply only if they have five or fewer employees. The change was a favor to union groups,
which said non-union construction contractors would have an advantage over unionized shops that do provide
health benefits. Local NFIB leaders staged a protest/press conference last week, calling on Congress to “strip this
job-killing provision from a final health care bill.”
Orbis Education, a locally based maker
of nursing-education software, received $8 million in venture capital from Menlo Park, Calif.-based Lightspeed
Venture Partners. Founded in 2003, Orbis offers online instruction to help universities and hospitals
train new nurses. A key hurdle in the looming nursing shortage is the lack of capacity for nursing schools
to accept all qualified applicants. Last year, it had $4.5 million in revenue and 33 employees. Orbis
aims to boost its work force past 50 by the end of the year. Orbis had previously raised $4 million from
family, friends and angel investors.
Watch out, Eli Lilly and Co. A Greenwood pharmaceutical
firm plans to build a $28 million insulin facility there to make a cheaper version of the diabetes-fighting medicine. According
to the Daily Journal of Franklin, Elona Biotechnologies expects its 50,000-square-foot facility to employ as many
as 70 people. Greeenwood officials are considering $8.5 million in incentives, including some loans,
to help Elona build the facility and get it approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Elona
was founded in the late 1980s by former Lilly researcher Ron Zimmerman.
West Lafayette-based
IVDiagnostics LLC won a $124,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to further
its cancer diagnostics research. The Small Business and Innovation Research Phase 1 grant will pay for
the company to improve the design of its IVFLow medical device, which analyzes and monitors tumor cells without taking blood
from a patient.
Physicians working in a surgery center connected to Community Hospital South kicked
in $500,000 to help the hospital complete a massive expansion. The gift, given by 65 doctors, boosts
to $1.2 million the money raised for the project by the philanthropic arm of Community Health Network.
The $130 million expansion will add 40 beds. It is scheduled to open in mid-2010.
