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Indianapolis police say a man was found shot to death inside a car on the east side Wednesday evening. Officers called to the scene in the 5400 block of East 17th Street found the 22-year-old victim on the passenger side of the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators said the shooting may have happened at a nearby apartment complex.
Officials say they hope the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac won’t force them to postpone weekend festivities at Lucas Oil Raceway. Another big weekend event, Rib Fest America at Military Park, will be held rain or shine, promoters say.
FedEx would bring a distribution complex to Zionsville under a tax increment financing deal hammered out with town redevelopment commission members on Wednesday.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits was unchanged last week at a seasonally adjusted 374,000, suggesting little improvement in the job market.
BP says the size of its gasoline recall is now more than twice as large than previously reported, with 4.7 million gallons distributed over the past week to about 200 gas stations as far as southwestern Ohio and southern Indiana.
As Hurricane Isaac swamps the nation's oil and gas hub along the Gulf Coast, it's delivering sharply higher pump prices to storm-battered residents of Louisiana and Mississippi — and also to unsuspecting drivers up north in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told veterans Wednesday in Indianapolis that he's already started planning how to change veterans' services to help them find jobs during a Romney administration.
A Purdue University farm expert says recent rainfall has delivered a late-season boost to Indiana's drought-stressed soybean crop.
The Marion County Prosecutor's Office has filed multiple charges against four suspects accused of renting or selling homes they did not own to unsuspecting buyers. Shel Amos and Beverly Cannedy were charged with two counts of corrupt business influence, two counts of burglary, six counts of forgery and six counts of theft. Willie Hawkins was charged with corrupt business influence, two counts of burglary, 10 counts of theft and three counts of tax evasion. Wendell Brown, also known as Menes Ankh-EL, was charged with five counts of forgery, one count of theft, four felony counts of intimidation and one misdemeanor count of intimidation.
A suspect accused of fatally shooting a man outside an Indianapolis gas station was arrested Tuesday. Police arrested 22-year-old Eric Butler during a traffic stop near West 38th Street and Interstate 465. Butler is accused of opening fire on two men near a gas station at 10th Street and Lynhurst Drive in June, killing 30-year-old Tommy Thompson. Butler faces murder charges.
The remnants of Hurricane Isaac, which stormed into Louisiana and Mississippi late Tuesday, are likely to be felt in central Indiana this weekend. Various weather-forecasting models are predicting anywhere from 2.9 inches to 6.8 inches of rain in the area starting Friday night. Also possible are high winds, torrential downpours, isolated tornadoes and flooding. Weather experts say the forecast could easily change between now and the weekend.
Anderson is the first city in Indiana to try a process that uses infrared technology to heat and melt existing asphalt, which is then broken up and removed, mixed with fresh oil and returned to the road surface.
Shares of Angie's List and Facebook were battered earlier this month immediately after the expiration of their lock-up agreements. That’s something tech firm ExactTarget would like to avoid on Sept. 17, when its lock-up agreement expires.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will focus on veterans' issues with a Wednesday afternoon speech to the American Legion in Indianapolis as speakers at the GOP convention in Florida address defense and foreign affairs.
Eli Lilly and Co. halted testing on an experimental treatment for schizophrenia after the company determined the drug was unlikely to show a benefit in patients.
WellPoint Inc. is expected to give about $15 million in cash, stock and benefits to former CEO Angela Braly on her way out the door, based on the terms of a separation agreement filed by the company Wednesday morning. And the payout could be even more lucrative based on the company’s future stock price.
Investors are looking for a CEO who can right the Indianapolis-based company’s financial performance and integrate WellPoint’s recent deals to buy Medicaid insurer Amerigroup Corp. and vision company 1-800-Contacts Inc.
A southwestern Indiana cantaloupe farm is the source of at least some of the salmonella responsible for an outbreak that sickened people in 21 states and killed two Kentucky residents, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
Even though CEO Angela Braly was facing withering criticism, analysts thought WellPoint would be reluctant to change CEOs while its $4.9 billion acquisition of Amerigroup Corp. was pending.
