Push to make schools start after Labor Day fails
A proposal to not allow Indiana's public schools to start the academic year before Labor Day has failed in the General Assembly.
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A proposal to not allow Indiana's public schools to start the academic year before Labor Day has failed in the General Assembly.
A Friday morning fire that began in a laundry room at Reflections Apartments near 79th Street and Harcourt Road caused about $90,000 in damage, Indianapolis firefighters say. The damage was mainly contained to one apartment unit.
A woman can thank bone-chilling temperatures for possibly saving her life Thursday night after she drove her car onto a retention pond near Brightpoint Inc. headquarters in Plainfield. The woman was traveling north on South Perry Road when she lost control and ended up on the pond. The ice on the pond was so thick that the car didn’t fall through. The woman had just gotten off work when the accident happened about 9:30 p.m. She was uninjured.
A Greenwood man was killed early Friday morning when he drove the wrong way on State Road 37 and hit another vehicle. Trent Schmidt, 35, was pronounced dead at the scene about 4 a.m. after he drove his Toyota Corolla into a Honda Accord near the Banta Road intersection. The 24-year-old Honda driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Northbound lanes were closed for more than three hours after the accident.
Tom Carnegie, 91, who served as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s public address announcer for 60 years, has passed away.
The Indiana Lobby Registration Commission on Thursday fired its executive director after placing her on leave without explanation in mid-January.
Eli Lilly and Co. on Friday named company insider Sue Mahony as president of its cancer drug business.
The effort to remove an 80-percent approval threshold for takeover bids against the wishes of Lilly’s board is on the agenda of the company’s April 18 annual meeting.
Indianapolis spent almost half its 2011 budget for snow removal—$3.4 million—to deal with last week’s ice and snow storms, the city announced Friday morning.
The developer Flaherty & Collins is finalizing plans for a second phase of Cosmopolitan on the Canal that calls for 162 more apartments and 180 parking spaces at a cost of about $24 million.
Stock in the Indianapolis-based media company closed above the necessary threshold of $1 per share for 10 consecutive business days on Thursday, meaning it should be back in compliance with NASDAQ rules.
Gov. Mitch Daniels is to speak Friday night at the Conservative Political Action Conference that has drawn thousands of conservatives eager to help a GOP challenger deny President Barack Obama a second term.
North-central and east-central Indiana, which absorbed the brunt of the job losses, also showed the highest percentage of unoccupied homes.
A bill that would allow Indiana's utilities to quickly pass onto their customers some of the costs of planning nuclear power plants is advancing in the General Assembly.
Legislators aren't holding up a plan to fix Indiana's debt-ridden unemployment insurance fund as they wait to see whether the federal government will put off charging the states interest on what they owe.
In a move to shore up American Legion’s bottom line, the organization is holding back thousands of new members—along with their dues—from state affiliates.
A TV commercial for jeweler Reis-Nichols has launched filmmakers Sami Mustaklem and Alex Kosene into the advertising business. Their firm, 3rd Strand, has a growing list of clients seeking their unique storytelling approach.
A rejuvenating massage and facial were the inspiration for Jennifer Rubenstein to found Simply Well LLC, a marketing business that launched the Simply Well Book in September. The book features offers from 46 locally owned salons, organic markets, yoga studios and similar businesses.
State lawmakers are exploring the idea of paying back more than $2 billion in federal debt for unemployment insurance by issuing tax-exempt bonds.
Even as some of its investments bear fruit in grand fashion, the state’s principal fund for investing in high-tech companies may get even less in the next budget than it did two years ago when its funding was cut in half.