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Local company part of $470 million paper mill deal

Indianapolis-based holding company Schwarz Partners LP has formed a joint venture with The Kraft Group LLC to buy two major paper mills from industry giant International Paper Co. The mills are part of a three-mill sale worth $470 million.

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Sales of existing homes up nationally in April

Modest increases in home sales are the latest sign that the market could be starting to turn around nearly five years after the housing bubble burst. Still, housing construction remains at roughly half the pace that economists consider a healthy market.

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Local election sites seeing light turnout

Marion County Clerk Beth White said she expects voter turnout for the Tuesday primary to be about 20 percent, much lower than the 37-percent participation in the 2008 primary. Without a presidential primary this time around, Democrats don’t feel as much urgency to vote, White said.

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Arrests made in $80M Lilly prescription drug heist

Authorities have arrested two Cuban brothers in the 2010 theft of about $80 million in Eli Lilly and Co. prescription drugs from a Connecticut warehouse, a robbery described as one of the biggest pharmaceutical heists in history, the U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday.

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Carbon Motors says DOE won’t give it $310M loan

Carbon Motors Corp., which hoped to create hundreds of jobs and thousands of high-tech, fuel-efficient police cars in Indiana, said the U.S. Department of Energy is not going to give the company a critical $310 million loan.

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It’s official: Colts to release 4-time MVP Manning

In announcing the release of quarterback Peyton Manning on Wednesday, a tearful Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay explained “circumstances were too difficult to overcome.” Beginning his departure from the Colts, the future Hall-of-Famer told Indianapolis, “I truly have enjoyed being your quarterback.”

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Feds take over SCB Bank in Shelbyville

Muncie-based First Merchants Bank will assume the deposits and some of the loans of SCB, the third Hoosier bank to fail since the banking crisis began three years ago.

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