ISU trustees scale back tuition increase for 2012
Indiana State University will reduce its planned tuition increase for in-state students from 3.5 percent to 1.5 percent, saving full-time students nearly $650 over four years.
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Indiana State University will reduce its planned tuition increase for in-state students from 3.5 percent to 1.5 percent, saving full-time students nearly $650 over four years.
Lottery Director Kathryn Densborn had acknowledged that $25,000 in gym equipment and some other items included in the move to a new office may have been poor judgment.
Grant for $500,000 will go toward use of technology to personalize learning.
Officials with the Fayette County Ruff Drug Task Force served a warrant overnight leading to the arrest of four individuals Friday morning in Connersville. Police said 27-year-old Tanya Smith, 36-year-old Donica Rent, Jacenta E. McPherson and 31-year-old Dustyn Deshon Bowlds were taken into custody. All four people arrested were found at a home in the 800 block of West 5th Street in Connersville. According to the task force, Smith and McPherson were arrested for visiting a common nuisance. Rent was arrested for maintaining a common nuisance and possession of paraphernalia. Bowlds was arrested and charged with dealing cocaine and resisting law enforcement.
An Indianapolis woman was hurt early Friday morning after a car smashed through an exterior wall of her apartment while she was asleep inside. The accident occurred around 4 a.m. on the south side near U.S. 31 and Stop 11 Road. Police believe that the driver accidentally put the car into drive instead of reverse as he was leaving a friend’s house. The car plowed into a window located next to Arbutus Horn’s bed. Horn and the driver sustained minor injuries.
Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were led on a short pursuit early Friday morning along Lafayette Road, ending in a crash that sent a suspect to the hospital. The incident began around 3:30 a.m., when a vehicle failed to stop for police near Pike Plaza and Lafayette Road. After a mile-long chase, the suspect's vehicle crashed and flipped at 52nd Street and Lafayette Road, slightly injuring the driver.
Restaurants, a medical clinic and even a dog kennel are ripe for consideration on an 11-acre airport site slated for a gas station. Airport officials have asked for proposals from developers by Oct. 25.
In the nine-county metropolitan area, the number of home-construction permits filed last month increased 22 percent from the same month in 2010, while home-sale agreements rose 5.1 percent.
A stagehands union is contesting an attempt by investigators of the deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse to seize records of its members.
About half the amount will go to domestic violence agencies, including the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence Network of Greater Indianapolis and The Julian Center.
A widespread move among major banks to charge customers a fee for using their debit cards has stirred Democratic lawmakers to seek a Justice Department investigation on possible collusion.
Richard Mourdock, the tea party-backed challenger to U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, reportedly closed the last federal reporting period with $300,000 in the bank. Lugar has close to $4 million.
Pork production for the coming year is expected to rise 2 percent to 3 percent, led by higher sow productivity and market weights and lower feed prices.
The device would be the first drug-coated stent approved in the U.S. to treat peripheral vascular disease in the largest artery of the upper leg.
Indianapolis-based Celadon Group Inc. is a trucking company that provides long-haul, full-truckload freight service through Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Life-like images used to drum up business in a meeting sector that’s suffering along with the economy.
Indianapolis’ movement toward installing green roofs on commercial buildings has advanced slowly but steadily, in spite of a poor economy and the availability of cheaper (at least in the short run) alternatives.
New Christian Theological Seminary President Matthew Myer Boulton wants to create a more vibrant atmosphere at CTS, by attracting younger students who can live on campus full time and by drawing the general public for lectures, concerts and religious events on a regular basis.
Indiana University President Michael McRobbie last month predicted that IU eventually will get less than 10 percent of its revenue from the state. If public schools get nine out of 10 dollars from somewhere other than public coffers, will they still be public?
Sentiment has been crushed. Some investors have lost faith, thrown in the towel, and abandoned the stock market.