A Purdue University-based company has reached a deal giving Chinese and Danish firms access to a patented product that makes
it easier to turn wood chips, grasses and other agricultural wastes into ethanol.
Work is to start next year on upgrading the highway through Carmel and Westfield to interstate standards in phases through
2017.
Kruse’s attorney said his 69-year-old client would like to find some way to keep the annual auction alive, possibly by finding
another auction company to run this year’s event.
An orchestra conductor, a black newspaper publisher, a nurse and a federal judge will be honored as Indiana living legends
in July.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels used the story of a blackjack player’s lawsuit in telling Franklin College graduates about using
skill to push the odds in one’s favor.
The Dow Jones industrials plunged below 10,000 Tuesday as traders turned away from stocks amid worries about the global economy
and tensions between North and South Korea.
Indiana Supreme Court Justice Theodore Boehm will step down this fall after 14 years on the bench.
The Morgan County Board of Zoning Appeals denied the request Monday night during a meeting where many in the crowd of more
than 100 people spoke against it.
State treasurer Richard Mourdock, a Republican who gained attention last year as he took a fight against the Chrysler bankruptcy
proceedings all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, says he'll run for re-election.
Sales of previously owned homes rose 7.6 percent in April, the best showing in five months.
The Girl Scouts of Central Indiana says a study found that the four sites need significant renovations to reach current safety
codes.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. spent about $2.3 million in the first quarter of 2010 lobbying the federal government
on health care reform, Medicare reimbursement and trade issues among other topics.
The delay is pushing back the release of the second half of the $132 million in stimulus funds the state got for energy-saving
retrofits to homes of thousands of low-income residents.
Moody's Investors Service on Friday lowered its rating outlook on drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. to "negative"
from "table" due in part to the looming expiration of patents protecting key drugs from generic competition.
The estimate released Friday from an outside actuary hired by the state is lower than the actuary’s “worst case scenario”
given two weeks ago.
Congress is getting tougher on both borrowers and lenders blamed for inflating a housing bubble that, when it popped, plunged
the nation into a severe recession two years ago.
Purdue corn specialist Bob Nielsen says recent frosts have caused mostly cosmetic damage to crops, but some fields experienced
damage serious enough that they must be replanted.
Applications for unemployment benefits rose to 471,000 last week, up by 25,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department
said Thursday. It was the first increase in five weeks and the biggest jump since a gain of 40,000 in February.
Republican state Sen. Marlin Stutzman said Thursday that he’d like to take Rep. Mark Souder’s place in Congress. Souder announced
this week that he would resign in the wake of an extramarital affair.
An April report to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission shows that the area code has exhausted 91 percent of its prefixes.
