Local accountant charged with $1.1 million fraud
Ryan M. King, 43, faces up to 20 years if convicted, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office, which announced the charges Tuesday.
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Stanley Black & Decker plans 136-job expansion in Greenfield
The company plans to invest $7.7 million in its Greenfield factory, which will lift production to an estimated 1.2 million power tools annually.
IPL plans $25M power-storage facility at Harding Street plant
The utility is seeking a $3.1 million tax incentive that it says will help it retain 791 employees in Marion County.
WRTV hires new co-anchor for 7 p.m. newscasts
Jason Fechner, a reporter and anchor at WQAD-TV Channel 8 in the Quad Cities since 2006, will join WRTV on Thursday.
Southwest to launch nonstop flights to New York’s LaGuardia
The Dallas-based carrier continues to bulk up its Indianapolis presence. It debuted nonstop service to Dallas in April, and will start service to Boston and Los Angeles next month.
Up-and-down year continues for home builders
Builders filed 492 single-family permits in the nine-county metropolitan area in April, the Builders Association of Greater Indianapolis said Friday. That's a 10-percent decrease from April 2014.
Purdue to build $8.8 million equine center in Shelbyville
The center, to be located near Indiana Downs, will provide health services to horses and serve as a working laboratory for veterinary school learning and research.
NFP of NOTE: Pack Away Hunger
Pack Away Hunger is dedicated to greatly improving the lives of children and others who suffer from hunger and malnutrition through a unique collaboration between nutritional science and community engagement.
Banks shuffle downtown Indy locations
Centier Bank intends to fill the downtown office space to be vacated by First Financial Bank, which recently opened elsewhere downtown.
Central Indiana home sales show slight monthly increase
Area home-sale agreements are up 8.9 percent through the first four months of the year compared with the same time period last year.
Miller Pipeline acquires North Carolina company
North Carolina-based A & B Trenching Co Inc., founded in 1985, employs about 200 people and has revenue of about $20 million per year.
University High School to offer coding academy classes
Eleven Fifty, the coding academy that entrepreneur Scott Jones launched last August, will soon offer classes at University High School in Carmel.
FFA negotiating with Indy to extend convention stay by three years
National FFA Organization officials have canceled their option to conduct their massive annual convention in Louisville from 2019 to 2021, and would like Indianapolis to host it for nine straight years.
PROXY CORNER: Cummins Inc.
Columbus, Indiana-based Cummins Inc. designs and manufactures diesel engines for automotive and industrial markets.
EDITORIAL: Politicians shouldn’t misread huge victories
It would be easy for some of the leading politicians in the wealthy northern suburbs to interpret their handy wins in the May 5 primary elections as resounding mandates to take on more debt in the interest of spurring additional private development.
Diabetes drug metformin show promise in cancer
Researchers at Purdue University, the Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin discovered a combination of two currently available drugs significantly slowed the growth of late-stage prostate cancer tumors in mice.
Indiana University psych student reinvents surveys
Josh de Leeuw, a graduate student in the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in Bloomington, has created jsPsych, an open-source software platform that employs a common Web technology to conduct psychology experiments over the Internet.
Dow Agro enters seed tech deal
Dow AgroSciences LLC has partnered with two other firms to create super soybean seeds.
Business, philanthropy leader Danielson dies at 95
Donald “Danny” C. Danielson, named a Living Legend last year for his lifelong contributions to business, education and philanthropy in Indiana, died Thursday morning in his New Castle home at age 95.