Indianapolis International Airport officials are prepared to provide hundreds of stranded passengers with something to sleep on, and restaurants will stay open late to serve them.
Indianapolis International Airport expected to have about 300 passenger flights arriving or departing on Wednesday, but a third of those were cancelled before midmorning. In addition, mall operator Simon Property Group announced its local shopping centers would close for the day.
A man arrested for attacking an Indianapolis woman in September 2011 as she was loading her car for a trip to the airport was convicted of numerous felonies Wednesday. Vincent Smith, 25, was convicted of rape, two counts of criminal confinement and one count each of criminal deviate conduct, auto theft and attempted robbery. Smith, who represented himself, faces a separate trial on charges that he stabbed an 18-year-old woman multiple times before setting her west-side house on fire in August 2011.
A judge has ruled that two northeastern Indiana school districts can sell vacant schools, bypassing a state law requiring them to wait four years in case a charter school wanted to claim the buildings.
A man rushing to the airport in his van Tuesday night missed his turn and hit two pedestrians on the sidewalk, killing one. Joseph Anthony Scott Crandall, 20, was driving south on Shelby Street in Fountain Square about 8:30 p.m. when he tried to turn onto Prospect Street and jumped a curb. One pedestrian died on the scene. The other, Aaron Schaler, 35, was taken to Wishard Hospital in stable condition. Investigators don’t believe drugs or alcohol played a factor, but said Crandall told them he was in a hurry because he had eight minutes to get to the airport.
A license plate tax of $20 to $50 per car will be one of a raft of proposals considered by the Legislature next year as a way to fix a hole in funding for road maintenance, and to keep expanding Indiana’s system of highways.
Sixteen current and former Indianapolis hotel workers have settled their union-backed lawsuit that alleged employment violations by nine area hotels and Atlanta-based Hospitality Staffing Solutions, a subcontractor that employs many hotel workers.
While the Republican brand in some quarters may be a bit tarnished these days, there is no doubting what it represents—the idea that we should have smaller government at all levels, and that government should stay out of our personal lives at least so far as taxation and guns are concerned.
The former CEO of the Indianapolis Airport Authority, now an airport consultant, is helping the Gary airport finance its nearly $170 million expansion.
The National Transportation Safety Board plans to arrive in Greensburg Monday afternoon to investigate a plane crash that killed four people. Authorities located the wreckage and bodies near the Greensburg-Decatur County Airport at about 10:45 Sunday night, more than four hours after the plane was cleared to land. Authorities are withholding the victims’ identities until family can be notified.
Indianapolis has more speculative industrial space under construction than any other market in the Midwest as developers try to capitalize on about four million square feet of tenant interest in the market.
The Indianapolis Airport Authority is in talks that could lead to a second solar farm at Indianapolis International Airport. Discussions are taking place even as the initial solar farm has yet to get off the ground.
The Indianapolis Airport Authority has taken its fight against an off-airport parking operator to the Indiana Court of Appeals after exhausting its options in Marion County Superior Court.
Stephen D. Fugate, chief financial officer and co-owner of Cargo Services Inc., is a finalist in the private companies (revenue $100 million or less) category.
Analysts are impressed by Bedford’s cost-cutting achievements at Republic’s scheduled-service carrier, Frontier Airlines, and his early progress in restructuring its Chautauqua unit, which flies small regional jets on contract for branded carriers.
More than a dozen employees of Scale Computing had their heads shaved at work Thursday in honor of Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano, who lost his hair during treatment for leukemia. His cancer is in remission.
A new study says the state’s 69 public airports support more than 69,000 jobs–about 30 percent of which are tied to Indianapolis International Airport.
