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.
The Interstate 69 extension between Evansville and Bloomington is on budget and should open years ahead of schedule in 2014,
Gov. Mitch Daniels said Wednesday.
Purdue President France Cordova arrived Tuesday in Beijing for four days of meetings with officials from Tsinghua University
and China Agricultural University.
Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie and Bloomington Hospital were among nine U.S. hospitals that had been charged with submitting
false claims to the Medicare program.
The proposed sites include the Indianapolis Stamping plant on the west side and the former GM Delco Plant 5 in Kokomo.
Indiana Rep. Mark Souder announced Tuesday he would resign from Congress, effective Friday, because he had an affair with
a staffer.
A drop in building permits, a gauge of future activity, along with the expiration of a government tax credit for home purchases
suggest the construction gains could fade soon.
Currently more than 1.7 million phone numbers are registered on the state's list. Indiana residents are encouraged to
add their residential phone numbers as another tool to prevent frauds and scams as well as unwanted telemarketing calls.
Newly implemented provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill are opening the door to possible federal aid for Indiana Christmas tree
growers and tree nurseries hit by losses caused by severe weather.
Indiana has named its first coordinator for overseeing a $10.3 million effort to shift the state's hospitals and clinics
from paper medical records to electronic files.
Race organizers, trying to save money and pump new life into Indy’s old qualifying format, have shaken up the status quo.
Ellsworth, long the presumptive nominee, was chosen over Bob Kern of Marion County by the Democratic Central Committee.
