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An Indianapolis man pleaded guilty Monday to fatally beating his former girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter. Jose Cruz, 22, is to be sentenced Oct. 16. His plea deal calls for him to receive a sentence of 75 years in prison. Police say they found victim Carmen Ellis covered with bruises in August 2012 inside her mother’s apartment. The girl’s mother, Samantha Ellis, awaits trial on a charge of neglect for leaving her daughter with Cruz.
An Indianapolis police officer has been released from the hospital after being shot in the leg Tuesday morning while responding to a disturbance at an apartment complex. Gregory Stevens was shot about 12:30 a.m. outside Greenway Apartments at 5300 E. 21st St. The suspected shooter, Charles Williams, 22, was in fair condition at Wishard Memorial Hospital after being shot at least seven times. Police say Williams refused to drop his weapon when they arrived at the scene, leading to a shootout. Stevens, a former U.S. Marine who spent three tours of duty in Iraq, is a four-year member of the force.
The historic downtown hotel’s new owner says the $9.5 million revamp and affiliation with an international brand are needed to compete with new high-end hotels in the Indy area.
WXIN-TV Channel 59 is losing a television anchor, while WRTV-TV Channel 6 is bringing more talent to town to beef up its morning news staff.
An offering of at least $750 million by Brixmor Property Group Inc. would be the largest IPO by a retail real estate investment trust since Simon Property Group raised $840 million in 1993.
Donald Sachtleben, a 55-year-old Carmel resident, admitted being the source for an AP story about an intelligence operation in Yemen that foiled a plot to blow up an airliner.
Democratic lawmakers and labor unions representing public employees continued their push Monday against a change in how public workers invest a chunk of their savings.
An insurance brokerage will relocate its Fort Wayne headquarters to a new $71 million downtown mixed-use project and create 115 jobs by 2017, Mayor Tom Henry said Monday.
The Indianapolis City-County Council approved one piece of Mayor Greg Ballard’s budget proposal Monday night, but they’re no closer to agreement on the whole $1 billion spending plan.
Eighteen months after the expansion opened, indicators of success are mixed.
Ex-Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association chief Bill McGowan weighs the pay-off.
Youth sports events reap millions for Indianapolis and its neighbors.
City-County Council Democrats are pitching a 2014 budget alternative that would close an $8-million gap left by the majority party's refusal to go along with Mayor Greg Ballard on eliminating the homestead tax credit.
Prices paid in the United States for medical devices, including those made by Indiana-based manufacturers, have plunged as much as one-third since 2007 as hospitals clamped down on spending.
Fewer than 20 percent of Purdue students participate in international study programs before graduating, and one of university President Mitch Daniels' new initiatives is to increase that to one-third of some 30,000 undergrads.
A car rear-ended a Carmel school bus Monday about 7:40 a.m. near Creekside Middle School, injuring the bus driver. Children had already been dropped off at Creekside before the accident near 126th Street and Shelbourne Road. The bus driver was taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries. The driver and a passenger in the car declined treatment.
A Hendricks County man died Sunday after the tractor he was driving rolled over on top of him, trapping him in an irrigation ditch for several hours before he was found about 8 p.m. The 45-year-old man, a father of five, was mowing a field near Clayton when the accident happened. His identity was not released.
Lewis Ferebee rode a school bus Monday on his first day as the superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools. Ferebee, 39, was selected from three finalists in August to replace Eugene White. His bus ride took him to Francis Scott Key Elementary School, near East 38th Street and Post Road.
Television ratings for the first three games of this year's Colts season are considerably higher than they were a year ago. And with a bevy of prime-time games coming up, they could approach record levels.
Zionsville-based Just Marketing International has been hired to find replacements for $7 million in annual sponsorship deals that are expiring following this season.
