Insurer lending $7M for east-side Super Bowl project
The aim is to spur redevelopment on the city’s blighted near-east side before the 2012 Super Bowl is played in Indianapolis.
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The aim is to spur redevelopment on the city’s blighted near-east side before the 2012 Super Bowl is played in Indianapolis.
Drugmakers and insurers could gain millions of customers under the legislation, but the industry also will pay new fees and
face stricter rules that may shrink profit and fuel mergers.
ITT Educational Services and other for-profit educators are buying not-for-profit colleges to gain access to their regional
accreditation. The tactic could fuel rapid growth but makes critics uncomfortable.
The legislation, piggybacked to the health care bill that passed Congress Sunday night, could also mean major job
losses for Sallie Mae, which employs about 2,400 people in Indiana, including 1,700 in Fishers.
To pay for the changes, the legislation includes more than $400 billion in higher taxes over a decade, roughly half of it
from a new Medicare payroll tax on individuals with incomes over $200,000 and couples over $250,000.
Teachers have traditionally taken summer jobs, but union claims more are working evenings and weekends during the school year.
Republican precinct committee members selected a replacement of Lincoln Plowman, who resigned earlier this month.
Software maker took abrupt turn into advertising for its customers when recession threatened.
Indiana State Teachers Association forecasts up to 5,000 teachers may lose their jobs. That’s about 8 percent of public school
teachers statewide.
Group that owns downtown’s Murat Theatre is considering legal options to prevent the venue’s name from changing to Old National
Centre.
The woman who set two dogs on fire has mental problems, according to her parents. Katherine Brotherton’s mother and
father, May and T.J. Brotherton, say they're angry and heartbroken over what their daughter did to the dogs. They say
they love the dogs and called 911 right after they found Katherine had tried to kill them. They also say they took Katherine
to Community North for a psychiatric evaluation, but she refused treatment. She was released from the hospital and remains
in the Johnson County Jail where she faces felony counts for animal cruelty. The dogs are recovering at the Johnson County
Animal Shelter.
A Pendleton police officer who let an impaired driver drive himself home will not be fired by the department. Patrolman Mike
Moore was under investigation for stopping a man, who was high on prescription drugs, last November, and then letting him
go home. Before Moore could be fired by the Pendleton Public Safety Board, the 30-year police veteran submitted letters of
retirement. During a Thursday night meeting, the board voted not to pursue the firing because he is already off the force.
A deal to put a new name on the Murat Centre in downtown Indianapolis may have hit a bump in the road. The Murat Temple Association
claims it was not involved in negotiations between event promoter Live Nation, which leases the facility, and Old National
Bank to rename the building Old National Centre, WIBC-FM 93.1 reported Thursday. The association said it is looking into its
legal options for challenging the renaming. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.
The Evansville-based bank, the largest financial institution headquartered in Indiana, awarded Robert Jones $1.2 million in
total compensation last year, or $146,177 less than in 2008.
Beginning July 1, employees will be able to bring guns to work. A labor lawyer says employers will need to get creative.
Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries will begin selling its ice cream in nine metropolitan Meijer stores beginning April 5. Distribution
will be assisted by the building of a 12,000-square-foot facility on the northwest side.
An exclusive first look at the about-to-open redo.
Indianapolis home builder Hansen & Horn Group Inc. has officially declared bankruptcy after owners agreed to liquidate the
company earlier this month.
A central Indiana school district could see 20 percent of its jobs cut for next school year as it works to close a multimillion-dollar
budget deficit.