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State warns of utility-bill scammers

The state Attorney General’s Office says Indiana residents are receiving telephone calls from imposters who ask them to pay delinquent utility bills. The agency says the callers pretend to be utility company employees and may threaten to disconnect the residents’ gas or electricity. The scammers demand payment but refuse to accept checks or credit cards. Instead, they ask the customer to buy a prepaid debit card and call them back with the PIN number.
 

Man arrested in shooting death

Indianapolis homicide detectives arrested a 24-year-old man over the weekend in connection with a shooting death. Philip Garrett, 24, was preliminarily charged with the murder of Carl Gildersleeve, 28, who was gunned down in a gas station parking lot at 2434 N. Keystone Ave. about 3:40 a.m. Saturday morning.
 

Van speeds into Lawrence house

A speeding minivan lost control, hit a fence, went airborne and upside-down, then crashed into a house in Lawrence about 2:30 a.m. Monday. Nobody was home at the time and the 29-year-old female driver walked away relatively uninjured. Police say the car was traveling nearly 90 mph in a 45-mph zone. The driver was taken to the hospital for a blood draw to see if alcohol or drugs played a role.

Are employers ready to limit workers’ choice of doctor?

The real test of so-called narrow network health plans will come not with Obamacare’s exchanges, which cater to individuals, but with employers, who control a far bigger slice of the health benefits pie and have highly reluctant to limit their workers' choice of hospitals and doctors.

People

WellPoint Inc. named Lewis Hay III to its board of directors after announcing earlier this month that three members had resigned for personal reasons. He serves as executive chairman of Juno Beach, Fla.-based NextEra Energy Inc. but will retire at the end of this year. He was CEO of that company from 2001 through last year. WellPoint, the nation's second-largest health insurer, said May 13 that three long-standing board members—Sheila P. Burke, Dr. Lenox D. Baker Jr. and Susan B. Bayh—had left the board but did not resign due to disagreements or disputes with the company.

Manufacturing activity sinks to 4-year low

Manufacturing has struggled this year as weak economies abroad have slowed U.S. exports. U.S. businesses have also reduced their pace of investment in areas such as equipment and computer software.

Company news

Carmel-based Mainstreet Property Group plans to build a 100-bed “health care resort” on seven acres at 5404 Georgetown Road, according to a tax-abatement request filed with the city. The $9.25-million, 65,000-square-foot nursing-home and assisted-living facility would feature an Internet cafe, movie theaters and restaurant-style dining with an on-site chef, spokeswoman Kate Snedeker said. Seventy of the beds would be for skilled nursing and 30 for assisted-living residents. Mainstreet would lease the property to a third-party operator, which hasn’t been identified. Mainstreet estimates the operator would employ 80 people earning an average $17.30 per hour. Mainstreet is seeking a three-year property-tax abatement that would save the company about $468,000, according to a preliminary resolution that goes before the Metropolitan Development Commission on June 5.

Indiana University and Purdue University joined nine other members of the Big Ten athletic conference June 1 to form the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium. The schools intend to conduct collaborative clinical trials to develop insights and products to treat cancer. Indianapolis-based cancer research organization Hoosier Oncology Group will serve as administrative headquarters for the consortium. Since 1984, Hoosier Oncology Group has initiated more than 150 clinical trials with more than 4,000 patients. “The advantage of this, particularly during a time of austerity for research, is that we can build upon the strengths of the institutions and fortify some of the shortcomings,” Dr. Patrick Loehrer, director of the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, said in a prepared statement.

Eli Lilly and Co. suffered a setback on one of its attempts to win approval for new indications for its blockbuster lung cancer drug Alimta. The drug did not extend progression-free survival times longer than the old chemotherapy drug paclitaxel when studied in a clinical trial of patients with nonsquamous non-small lung cancer. Paclitaxel, or Taxol, was given to patients with two other chemotherapy agents, carboplatin and bevacizumab. Alimta was given to patients along with carboplatin. Alimta had nearly $2.6 billion in global sales last year, but its rate of growth slowed to just 5 percent. Lilly hoped a new indication would reignite Alimta growth rates, helping it offset revenue Lilly will lose in the next year as patents on its drugs Cymbalta and Evista expire. Alimta, by contrast, has patents that will likely extend its life through 2021.

Fox59 losing anchor to Texas station

Square-jawed news veteran Walt Maciborski will step down from the 5 p.m. newscast on Friday to take a similar gig in his adopted hometown of Austin, Texas.

Deficit threatens one-fourth of Ivy Tech’s sites

Mounting budget woes and the need to deal with a $68 million deficit could force Ivy Tech Community College to close up to a quarter of its school sites around Indiana, school officials said.

Westfield’s plans just keep getting grander

Preliminary designs presented to City Council members last month show 100-foot towers at the northwest and southeast edges of a planned U.S. 31 bridge over State Road 32, a key gateway to Westfield.

INDOT memo strips information in public tug-of-war

By one stroke this year, Indiana lawmakers and the new governor vastly improved the public's ability to find out how the show is run at the Statehouse, while in another, top managers at the Indiana Department of Transportation quietly clamped down on what's available.