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A crash involving a stolen car sent two people to the hospital early Wednesday morning. At least four people, including three juveniles, were in the car, which hit a tree on the south side of Indianapolis near State Avenue and Raymond Street about 4:30 a.m. The driver and a passenger had to be cut out of the car and were sent to Wishard Hospital. One is in critical condition. Two other passengers fled the scene but were caught by police.
A 17-year-old girl suffered a critical head injury Tuesday during a fight at the Southport High School cafeteria. Danelle Loyd has been upgraded to serious condition at Methodist Hospital after undergoing an operation Wednesday morning. The other fight participant, a 15-year-old, was not seriously injured. Police have been called to Southport High School at least eight times this year with at least half those calls involving fights.
Fishers police say they have made an arrest in the case of a woman who was raped on Mother’s Day. Dominic R. Woods, 19, is suspected of the crime, which took place about 2:30 a.m. May 9 in the Brookston Place neighborhood near Brooks School Road and Fall Creek Road. The victim said she was raped in her home by an intruder who held her at knifepoint. Woods also faces charges of burglary and criminal confinement.
Riley Children’s Foundation raised $201 million through its “Hope Happens Here” fundraising campaign, the Indianapolis-based not-for-profit announced Wednesday. The money will be used to support Riley Hospital for Children.
After a three-decade absence from the market, Fiat is coming back to the Indianapolis area with new dealerships in Carmel and Greenwood.
T2 Systems Inc., which makes software to manage the enforcement of parking violations and the collection of fines, is hopeful it can continue providing the service under a new parking-meter manager.
Musical featuring John Prine tunes moves beyond the Phoenix.
All Indiana General Assembly committee meetings will be shown live online in the 2011 session for the first time.
A software company based in central Indiana is going on a 10-city recruiting tour in search of applicants to fill 150 engineering jobs by next spring.
The Greenwood Board of Aviation Commissioners will replace Indy Jet Center Greenwood, which had only managed the airport since January, effective Nov. 25.
Indiana Lt. Governor Becky Skillman says the grant will pay to demolish old building foundations, deteriorated pavement and concrete slabs in the downtown business district.
Auto parts maker says it will close its South Bend facilities by the end of 2011 and will offer about 170 of the 250 employees who work there jobs in other states.
St. Vincent Health appointed Karen Porter as chief planning officer, overseeing construction and operations efficiency for the 19-hospital system.
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. named Jerry Kertesz vice president of sales, overseeing new business sales, as well as broker and consultant relationships. Kertesz has been vice president of account management in the company's national accounts division for more than four years.
WellPoint named Perry Pogany to replace Kertesz. He has served as vice president for auto and interplan national accounts for 12 years.
West Lafayette-based Kylin Therapeutics Inc. received a nearly $250,000 grant from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that will advance the company's nanoparticle cancer-treatment research. Kylin's technology uses RNA and a natural process called RNA interference to directly target and "turn off" disease-causing genes. Kylin’s technology was discovered at Purdue University by former Purdue professor Peixuan Guo.
Lilly Ventures, the venture-capital arm of Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co., led a $24 million investment round in Massachusetts-based Cerulean Pharmaceuticals, which is developing nanoparticle drugs. According to Xeconomy.com, the Series C funding round will help Cerulean pay for Phase 2 clinical trials of its leading nanoparticle drug, which is designed to treat lung cancer. Steve Hall, a venture partner at Lilly, has joined Cerulean’s board of directors in connection with the funding round. Cerulean has now raised $56 million in venture capital.
Johnson Memorial Hospital asked county officials to approve a $14 million expansion of its surgical center to accommodate larger surgery suites, as well as new recovery beds and physician offices, according to the Daily Journal of Franklin. That expansion would add 29,000 square feet and renovate 9,300 square feet of existing space. Johnson Memorial wants to start construction in the spring and complete the project by late summer of 2012.
Les Zwirn, executive director of Better Healthcare for Indiana, talked about his group’s progress on promoting community collaborations to improve health and reduce the cost of care in cities around Indiana. BHI is hosting its third health care summit of Indiana community leaders today at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis-based drugmaker finally won FDA approval for its antidepressant Cymbalta to treat chronic pain and fended off a patent challenge to rising-star cancer drug Alimta, but got a ratings downgrade on its debt.
New Republican Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma says he’s serious about seeking bipartisan support in the upcoming legislative session.
Police are searching for a man who stole a sport-utility vehicle at gunpoint early Tuesday morning at an apartment complex on Brandonway Court on the northeast side. A woman and her husband had just arrived at their apartment parking lot when a man put a gun to the husband's head and demanded they hand over the keys. The suspect was last seen driving a 1996 dark-blue Chevy Tahoe westbound on east 56th Street.
A south-side Indianapolis gas station was robbed at knifepoint about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. The suspect was last seen leaving the Marathon station on South Meridian Street near Raymond Street heading north on Meridian in a beat-up Chevy or GMC pickup.
Lawrence police have charged Joshwa Carlisle, 22, with two counts of murder and one count of arson in the deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Tracie Shannon, 25, and their 9-month-old daughter, Juliana. Shannon and her daughter were found dead Sept. 19 after a fire at Hunt Club Apartments in the 5000 block of Old Colony Road. A Marion County coroner ruled that Shannon died of smothering and the infant died of smoke inhalation. Investigators determined that fires were intentionally set around both victims.
