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The Indiana State Teachers Association may try to unload its nine-story headquarters in downtown Indianapolis to cope with financial turmoil, but such a deal likely would keep the teachers union as the building’s anchor tenant. Selling the 115,000-square-foot headquarters could help the teachers’ union regain its footing after big losses at its insurance trust drew […]
Police launched a massive, but unnecessary, 12-hour search for a 12-year-old autistic boy on the southwest side of Indianapolis yesterday after miscommunications between police and Child Protective Services. Josh Arnett was safe with CPS during the search, but family members and police were unaware of his whereabouts. An internal investigation is under way. Fox 59 […]
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard will hold a public meeting tonight to offer an update on the city’s financial status. The agenda will include discussions about Animal Care and Control, and the Department of Public Works. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the public assembly room of the City-County Council Building.
The wife of a Marion County judge faces forgery charges after police say she signed a phony court document with another judge’s name to avoid a mortgage payment. According to investigators, Kristina Nelson, 43, has admitted to making up a dramatic story in which she and her husband, Judge William Nelson, were victims of an […]
Fast-growing AIT Laboratories says it will make “a major announcement” tomorrow with Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock – perhaps the state’s biggest booster of employee stock ownership plans, or ESOPs. A spokesman for Mourdock and an AIT spokeswoman would not comment on whether AIT is forming an ESOP, a structure that would shift ownership of the […]
The owners of a 1.3-acre parking lot southeast of Meridian and South streets have put the property up for sale, apparently putting an end to the dream…
The City-County Council last night approved the city’s first Office of Code Enforcement, making permanent a department created by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard in February. The office, designed to streamline the city’s licensing, permitting, inspection and abatement functions, will become permanent Jan. 1. Historically, the departments of Metropolitan Development, Parks and Recreation, Public Safety and […]
A 111-year-old home for troubled children in Indianapolis will remain open for at least one more year even though state officials plan to stop sending youths to the facility. The Indianapolis City-County Council last night approved $450,000 to keep the Marion County Children’s Guardian Home in operation with its director and a part-time worker as […]
Tyler Hansbrough is so far turning out to be a popular draft pick among the Indiana Pacers faithful. It will be interesting to see what he does to spike ticket sales. I suspect,…
Unemployment rates rose in all the largest U.S. metropolitan areas for the fifth straight month in May, the Labor Department said this morning. The unemployment rate in Kokomo jumped to 18.8 percent, up 11.7 percentage points from a year ago, the largest increase of all metro areas. The second-highest jump occurred in Indiana’s Elkhart-Goshen area. […]
When the market for single-family houses began to fall apart last fall, the prevailing wisdom was that the crash would be good for the owners of apartment complexes. But the recession is taking its toll on multi-family housing as well, putting the brakes on new developments and driving down prices of existing complexes. Projections at […]
A burst water main caused some downtown Kokomo streets to be blocked off and numerous businesses and offices to be warned about the safety of their drinking water. Indiana American Water crews worked overnight to repair the 12-inch line and did not immediately know what caused yesterday’s break. The company issued a warning for much […]
Just when you’ve made it through another unfocused prison break sequence or another bank job more about the
sound of the machine guns then the strategy or risk of the heist, “Public Enemies” gives a glimmer of hope
it’s going…
Federal authorities are pressing a probe of 10 associates of Bernard Madoff despite a sentence that means the mastermind of one of the biggest financial frauds in history will spend the rest of his days behind bars, The Associated Press has learned. A person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, […]
For those that missed it in the IBJ print edition two weeks ago, the Circle City Classic has named a new director. The official announcement comes today. For more details on the new…
Leaders of the Democrat-controlled House and Republican-ruled Senate said last night that they were very close to agreeing on a new two-year state budget, and votes on the plan were expected today. Lawmakers must pass a new budget or a stopgap funding measure by midnight, when the current spending plan expires, or Republican Gov. Mitch […]
Indiana is running so short on prison space that it has just 26 beds available for its worst offenders. Inmates are already sleeping in beds stacked three high in one prison, and officials are considering renovating common areas like gymnasiums into cells. Department of Correction leaders thought their prison crowding problem would be alleviated – […]
Results released today from an Indiana University study show that the state is one of the nation’s biggest beneficiaries of foreign investment. Firms in which a foreign investor or company had at least a 50-percent stake accounted for 4.6 percent of Indiana’s total private-sector employment in 2006, ranking the state ninth and above the national […]
Marian University has received a $6 million pledge – the largest gift in the institution’s history – from a former trustee, the school announced today. The gift was timed to coincide with the Indianapolis-based school’s name change from Marian College to Marian University. The gift should help further the Catholic college’s plan to raise its […]
Historic swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison today for a fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to potential imitators and to victims who demanded harsh punishment. Scattered applause and whoops broke out in the crowded Manhattan courtroom after U.S. District Judge Denny Chin […]
