The latest batch of Indiana laws takes effect Thursday, with new provisions raising the age at which teenagers can get driver's
licenses and requiring ID checks for everyone buying alcohol.
IU says MaryEllen Bishop of Carmel has been elected to an alumni seat on the Indiana University Board of Trustees.
State officials expect more backyard fireworks shows this year because budget problems have forced many municipalities to
cancel large professional fireworks displays.
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. said Wednesday that its California subsidiary will dial down rate hikes that drew national outrage earlier this year and helped spark a final push for health care reform.
CNO Financial Group Inc. has finalized plans to set up a $10 million fund to settle a multistate investigation into increases
in policy costs.
Poet LLC plans to reopen the former Altra Biofuels plant in nine months, creating as many as 45 jobs.
A state official says General Motors could scuttle plans to sell an Indianapolis stamping plant marked for closing unless
a local union agrees to consider pay cuts.
A new report says school superintendents who want voters to approve requests for additional district funding need to become
campaign savvy.
Senate Democrats are working on a new way to jump-start their stalled election-year jobs agenda while saving unemployment benefits for hundreds of thousands of laid-off workers. The plan combines in one bill the unemployment benefits with an extension of a popular tax credit for people who buy new homes.
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. says it notified 470,000 individual insurance customers about an online security breach
that may have exposed medical records, credit card numbers and other sensitive information.
Indiana Wesleyan University bought the five-acre Seybold Park from the city of Marion last month for $143,000.
A new state law allows the securities commissioner to award up to $15,000 or 25 percent of unrecovered awards to victims who
can prove that a court or other agency awarded restitution for fraud that occurs after July 1 of this year.
State officials say Pennsylvania-based Santelli Tempered Glass Inc. will open a 32,500-square-foot plant in Elkhart, creating
35 jobs by 2013.
Officials say they believe a northwestern Indiana casino might owe $5 million more in back property taxes than previously
estimated.
The Indiana Pacers still are renegotiating the team's lease of Conseco Fieldhouse with a Wednesday deadline approaching.
Indiana will soon get its first comprehensive review of the state's criminal code and sentencing policies since 1976,
and officials hope the project will save taxpayer money and reduce how frequently released inmates return to prison
Americans spent a little more in May but not enough to speed along the economic recovery.
The Obama administration said Sunday it intends to nearly double the available amount of wireless communications spectrum
over the next 10 years in an effort to keep up with the ever-growing demand for high-speed video and data transmission to
cell phones, laptops and other mobile devices.
Democrats picked Vop Osili over Carmel attorney Tom McKenna. He'll face Fishers Town Councilman Charlie White in November.
One attendee paid $28,000 for a $68,000 boat. But others were just curious about a man who investigators say abandoned his
plane over Alabama, then used a motorcycle he'd stashed in a shed to elude authorities.
