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Gasoline prices are on the rise for a fourth day in a row. According to the American Automobile Association, the national average at the pump is $1.97 for a gallon of unleaded. In Indianapolis, prices have jumped 20 cents at some stations, reaching as high as $2.15.
Legislative efforts to ban smoking in public places statewide may be up in smoke. Indiana lawmakers are clashing over whether they should try to pass a watered-down bill or sacrifice this year’s proposal in hopes of passing a stricter rule later. The Democrat-controlled House approved legislation last month that would ban smoking in some places […]
One man was killed and another injured in a shooting today at 3 a.m. at 30th Street and Georgetown Road on the city’s west side. There have been six homicides in Indianapolis over the past seven days. Police found the dead man in the driver seat of a blue Chrysler PT Cruiser. His passenger had […]
Emmis Communications Corp. announced this morning that it will begin developing more online television channels for company-owned radio stations on the East and West Coasts. Indianapolis-based Emmis signed an agreement with Gen2Media Corp. of Orlando, Fla., to launch the video networks on the Web sites of five stations – three in New York City and […]
Members of a State House Committee will hear arguments today regarding a bill that would ban teens from using cell phones and other handheld devices while driving. The ban would include all drivers younger than 18. The State Senate passed the bill 43-6. Similar bills have failed to pass in previous years.
New York-based Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. will roll out its new Izod/Indy race-inspired clothing collection in Macy’s stores nationwide in April. The launch will be accompanied by a national multi-million dollar advertising campaign as…
Neil LaBute is know outside theater circles for writing and directing the lightning-rod film “In the Company of Men,” which he produced while teaching in Fort Wayne. A long string of writing and directing gigs followed, leading to, this month,…
China has renewed a call for the world to create a global currency.
If such a currency were to emerge, it would be a shot in the arm to Indiana’s manufacturing base, says Purdue University economist Kanda Naknoi.
China’s central…
Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods unexpectedly rose in February after a record six straight declines. The Commerce Department said today that orders for durable goods – manufactured products expected to last at least three years – increased 3.4 percent last month, much better than the 2-percent fall economists expected. It was the […]
Major Hospital in Shelbyville has one of the toughest jobs in central Indiana. It operates in the least populated county of those surrounding Marion County. Yet because of Interstate 74, most Shelby County residents can be on the doorstep of one of the much larger Indianapolis hospitals in just 30 minutes. But by at least […]
The Indianapolis Indians are rolling out a new online poll that allows fans to choose what mowing pattern will appear on the Victory Field playing field for the Tribe’s April 9 season opener…
Legislative efforts to ban smoking in public places statewide could be up in smoke. Indiana lawmakers are clashing over whether they should try to pass a watered-down bill or sacrifice this year’s proposal in hopes of passing a stricter rule later. The Democrat-controlled House approved legislation last month that would ban smoking in some places […]
A plan that would cut benefits to most jobless people to help fix Indiana’s bankrupt unemployment insurance fund moved to the House – and a showdown with majority Democrats. The Senate passed a Republican plan yesterday that is designed to make the fund solvent. It was approved on a mostly party-line 30-20 vote in the […]
Democrats who control the Indiana House took a swipe at the Republican state schools chief yesterday, passing a bill that would prevent him from changing a snow-day policy as he proposed. State Superintendent of Public Education Tony Bennett said last week that he will require schools to make up a day of school for each […]
The Democrat-controlled Indiana House has passed a proposal that supporters say will provide $200 million in property-tax relief this year by accelerating the phase-in of tax caps. But the bill is unlikely to win approval from the GOP-led Senate. Current law will phase in tax caps by 2010, when homeowners’ property-tax bills would be limited […]
Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a bill into law yesterday that allows the state’s finance authority to negotiate long-term contracts to buy and sell synthetic natural gas from a planned southern Indiana coal-gasification plant. Daniels said the law would save Indiana’s natural gas users billions of dollars by ensuring a steady supply of synthetic natural gas […]
Conseco Inc., at risk of violating its main credit agreement, has asked its senior secured lenders to waive restrictions on their $912 million in loans, the company announced today. Conseco, a Carmel-based life insurer, indicated in a statement that it would pay a higher interest rate on the loans in exchange for its lenders relaxing […]
Gov. Mitch Daniels has signed into law a bill he says will save Indiana’s natural gas users billions of dollars in the coming years. The law allows the Indiana Finance Authority to negotiate 30-year contracts to buy and sell synthetic natural gas from a coal-gasification plant that is planned for construction along the Ohio River. […]
A Plainfield woman was acquitted yesterday in the death of her newborn child, but the Kentucky jury convicted Katie McCoy, 20, of tampering with physical evidence. McCoy admitted she gave birth in a Bellarmine University bathroom in 2007, but said the baby was stillborn. McCoy was sentenced to two years in prison.
Legislation that would stiffen Indiana’s animal-cruelty laws and more closely regulate dog-breeding operations commonly known as puppy mills could produce millions of dollars in new tax revenue from unregistered breeders, according to the author of the bill. House Bill 1468, which has broad support from animal-rights groups, could generate tax income from breeders that work […]
