Pence taps former lawmaker Espich as top lobbyist
Indiana Gov.-elect Mike Pence has tapped Jeff Espich, a retired lawmaker with four decades of legislative experience, to guide his agenda through the Statehouse.
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Demand soft for Big Ten football title game tickets
Organizers of the Big Ten Conference football championship game are facing third-and-long in their quest to fill Lucas Oil Stadium for Saturday night’s matchup. A glut of tickets remains available on the secondary market.
Drought won’t hit Christmas trees this year
The drought of 2012 could have a profound impact on Indiana's Christmas tree production, but not this year, according to tree farmers. Tom Dull, who has owned Dull's Tree Farm in Thorntown for 28 years, said the drought caused serious losses of tree crops planted this spring and in spring 2011. But those trees weren’t expected to hit the market for seven or eight years. Mature trees handle drought better, so this year’s crop, and prices, shouldn’t be affected, he said.
Two Indiana tickets just miss Powerball prize
Hoosier Lottery officials say Indiana retailers sold two tickets that just missed winning a share of the giant Powerball jackpot. Those tickets, sold in Vincennes and Highland, matched the first five numbers in Wednesday night’s drawing, but not the Powerball number, and are worth $1 million each. The two winning tickets for the estimated $580 million jackpot were sold in Arizona and Missouri. More than 206,000 “winning” tickets sold by Indiana retailers won a total of $3.1 million.
Retailers report weak sales gains for November
Major retailers such as Kohl's, Target and Macy's on Thursday reported slow sales in November as a strong start to the holiday shopping season wasn't enough to fully offset a slow start to the month caused by Superstorm Sandy.
Allison Transmission workers approve labor contracts
More than 1,500 hourly workers in Indianapolis ratified new five-year contracts, the automotive supplier announced Thursday.
Hulman & Co. CEO seeks to overhaul IndyCar management
Mark Miles isn’t likely to stop at simply hiring a replacement for Randy Bernard, racing sources said. He also aims to build a new IndyCar Series management structure and hire a new executive team.
Durham fate rests in judge’s hands
Convicted Ponzi schemer Tim Durham and two accomplices will find out Friday whether they will spend the rest of their lives in prison.
State health commissioner returning to private sector
Dr. Gregory N. Larkin, appointed commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health by Gov. Mitch Daniels in 2010, will leave his position in January to become medical director of OurHealth, an employer on-site clinic company.
Watchdog calls out Bosma for hiring lobbyist for staff post
Matt Whetstone is taking a break from his job as a lobbyist at Krieg DeVault to work as the House parliamentarian.
Feds clear WellPoint’s $4.5B acquisition of Amerigroup
The government has dropped its antitrust concerns about health insurer WellPoint Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Amerigroup Corp., the Justice Department said Wednesday, clearing WellPoint to proceed with the $4.46 billion deal.
Pence appoints veteran Indiana aide chief counsel
Indiana Gov.-elect Mike Pence announced Wednesday that Mark Ahearn would serve as his general counsel. Ahearn comes from the Indiana Department of Transportation and previously worked for Pence and former Sen. Dan Quayle in Congress.
Budget-writing Indiana lawmakers hear from agencies
Indiana's budget picture is slowly taking shape, but the big questions about tax collections, tax cuts and how much will be spent on education remain to be seen.
CONOVER: Manufacturing still drives Indiana’s economy
It’s no secret that Indiana’s factory workers took more lumps during the Great Recession than workers in other sectors, with nearly 120,000 losing their jobs. Indeed, from the state’s manufacturing employment peak at the start of the century, our factories had shed a quarter million jobs by the recession’s end.
Indiana manufacturers struggling with fuel economy standards
Automakers and suppliers are pumping more money into research and development at a time many of their sales departments struggle with a slowing global economy.
Woman charged in fatal crash
A 23-year-old woman was charged Tuesday in connection with a crash in Indianapolis that killed a Franklin man. Morgan Mannix was arrested last Saturday morning after police said she hit Alex Trabert, 23, in the 7400 block of North Shadeland Avenue about 2:30 a.m. Authorities say Mannix, from Kansas City, Mo., fled the scene, but later turned herself in. Mannix, who tested positive for alcohol use, pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to a Class C felony charge of failure to stop after an accident resulting in death.
Five escape Noblesville house fire
Firefighters in Noblesville say an 11-year-old boy alerted his family to a late-night fire, allowing them to escape their burning house Tuesday. The boy, his mother and three other children exited the smoke-filled home without injury. Authorities say the fire, which may have started in a clothes dryer, caused about $50,000 in damage.
Morning crash shuts down I-465
A semitrailer slammed into the back of a state highway department dump truck about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, leading to a section of Interstate 465 in Indianapolis being closed for more than three hours. Two highway workers inside the dump truck were taken to a hospital with complaints of pain, while the semi driver suffered a non-life-threatening leg injury. The crash happened near I-74 on the city's southeast side as highway crews were doing maintenance work. Southbound lanes of I-465 were closed until nearly 6 a.m. as spilled diesel fuel and crash debris was cleaned up.