Two years removed from his failed try in NASCAR, the Scottish driver holds on with barely a gallon of fuel in the
tank. Meanwhile, the much-touted Penske team falls victim to its own blundering.
The Commerce Department said Friday that consumer spending was unchanged last month, the weakest showing in seven months.
More people are expected to hit the road than did last year, but their budgets will be tighter because of high unemployment,
stock markets in retreat and a still-fragile economy.
Enrollment during the period rose 17 percent, to more than 57,000 students as of Monday, the first day of the summer semester.
The three simultaneous gatherings are expected to draw about 600 scientists and researchers from some 30 countries to the
West Lafayette campus from July 12-15.
Fort Wayne officials are working to persuade Navistar to keep its truck design center with more than 800 workers in the city
after the company dropped plans to move its operations to a Chicago suburb.
The economic recovery last quarter turned out to be slower than first thought, one of the reasons unemployment is likely to
stay high this year.
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.
