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Neal Grubbs, 20, was arrested Tuesday after Indianapolis police found a tennis ball filled with explosive powder and BB pellets in his bedroom. Investigators went to his west-side home after a 911 caller reported that Grubbs planned to set off ball bombs in two suburban movie theaters. Grubbs told police he was given the explosive by another individual several weeks ago.
An Indianapolis man convicted last month of shooting and killing a teenager in 2012 was sentenced Wednesday to 55 years in prison. Glenn Beard, 57, was convicted of murder and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon for killing 13-year-old Jarrell Tucker. Investigators determined Beard shot Tucker in the head and leg after the teen tried to rob Beard’s brother, Richard Beard, outside Glenn Beard’s house in the 100 block of North Denny Street.
Six people were taken to a hospital after carbon monoxide from a running SUV in a lower-level garage filled their Carmel apartment building late Wednesday night. Firefighters reported finding carbon monoxide in all seven units of the Legacy Towns and Flats building. Near-fatal levels of the gas were found in some apartments. Seven other residents were evacuated but didn’t require hospitalization.
The bypass will allow drivers to avoid 15 traffic signals on the highway's current route through the city.
Sugar Creek Packing Co. officials say the delay is needed because of changes in construction plans for a sewage-treatment plant at the former Really Cool Foods plant near Cambridge City.
Dermody, a Republican from LaPorte, will replace Jim Davis, who left the Indiana Legislature to become the director of the Office of Community and Rural Affairs.
Early ticket sales for the new IndyCar road race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are tracking on the high end of projections. But the visitor spending of the mostly locally attended event could be limited.
The historic Kemper House on North Delaware Street is no longer vacant, occupied by a couple who would seem to be ideal residents.
Toyota Motor Corp.’s top North American executive said the carmaker hasn’t decided to end a production deal that supplies it with 100,000 Camry sedans annually from Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.’s U.S. Subaru plant in Lafayette.
The raids at La Carreta restaurants in Merrillville and Schererville were part of a larger investigation that targeted El Rodeo restaurants in the Indianapolis area, Lafayette, West Lafayette and Richmond.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association sued Electronic Arts Inc., saying the video-game maker hasn’t agreed to indemnify the NCAA for legal claims by college athletes and hasn’t maintained insurance to do so.
Online electronics retailer Newegg Inc., which reached an inducement deal with the city in September to open a distribution center in Indianapolis, has landed even more incentives from the state, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. announced Wednesday.
Gene D’Adamo, vice president of community relations for Republic Media, which publishes The Arizona Republic, will succeed Harriet Ivey as president and CEO of the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.
Hundreds of Indianapolis students were stuck at school late Tuesday after 25 buses failed inspection in the middle of the day. The vehicles, operated by A & S Transportation, serve Emma Donnan Middle School, Howe High School and Manual High School. Each school is managed by Charter Schools USA.
Indianapolis police say a 7-year-old girl was shot Tuesday about 6:30 p.m. at a northwest-side apartment complex. The shooting took place in the 3900 block of Gateway Court, near 38th Street and North High School Road. The victim was listed in serious but stable condition. Several people were home at the time of the incident. Investigators don’t believe the shooting was a “random occurrence.”
An armed man wearing a ski mask escaped Wednesday morning after invading a home on the far-east side and trying to force a family of three to drive him to an ATM. The intruder entered the apartment in the 1800 block of Wellington Avenue, near Interstate 465 and 38th Street, at about 6:15. He forced the man, woman and 5-year-old boy into their car and told the woman to drive to an ATM. At a traffic light near I-465 and Pendleton Pike, the woman jumped out of the vehicle and flagged down a passing Lawrence police officer. The gunman left the car and ran from the scene.
The agreement is one of the largest ever for the medical device industry. It resolves an estimated 8,000 cases of patients who had to have the company’s metal ball-and-socket hip implant removed or replaced. The implants were made by J&J’s Indiana-based DePuy unit.
The state insurance department said Wednesday morning that to do so would “create logistical chaos” and “destabilize” Indiana’s individual health insurance market.
Mergers and acquisitions are lagging this year, even as the market notches a series of record highs and is headed for its best year in a decade.
The $12 million, 75-unit complex officially opened Tuesday on the city’s near-west side as the first supportive housing facility for homeless veterans.
