Police have made an arrest in a purse-snatching ring that targeted older women in Indianapolis. Investigators believe Laritha Martin and five other female accomplices searched store parking lots for older women, followed them home and robbed them. Police say they found purses from multiple victims inside Martin’s home on North Carrolton Avenue. They are still […]
Officials from Citizens Gas and Indianapolis Power & Light are warning customers about a fraudulent utility-bill scheme in the Indianapolis area. Customers should not give money to anyone offering to pay a bill for them, or to anyone offering to provide matching energy-assistance funds, they said. If you receive an unsolicited offer to cover the […]
Three Indiana men were killed when a fuel-storage tanker exploded yesterday afternoon near Little Rock, Ark. The victims were all contract welders, employed by Kentucky-based C & C Welding. Two of the victims, Stoney Powell, 45, and Roy Mathis, 60, were from Wheatfield and the other, William Decker, 48, was from Scottsburg. Fox will have […]
The city of Indianapolis has selected seven local organizations to help launch neighborhood revitalization projects funded by $29 million in federal money, the city announced today. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Federal lawmakers approved the funds late last year to help neighborhoods recover from the effects of widespread foreclosures. The city’s Redevelopment Planning Council […]
Central Indiana home sales continue to lag last year’s pace, but the inventory of available houses is beginning to slip, according to the latest residential real estate report from Indianapolis-based Landrigan & Co. Realtors. According to the report, which uses figures from the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors, 1,848 homes were sold in April in […]
Illinois-based Allstate Insurance Co. is working to recruit 55 new agency owners in Indiana by the end of 2010, the company said yesterday. If successful, the recruitment push would boost Allstate’s Hoosier agent force by 25 percent, to 273. Allstate agents sell automobile, homeowners and other kinds of property insurance, as well as various financial […]
Military officials have not released the identities of five soldiers killed by an Army sergeant yesterday in Iraq, but two of the dead were officers from the Indianapolis-based U.S. Army Reserve 55th Medical Co., according to the Associated Press. The suspected shooter was a patient at a combat stress treatment center at Camp Liberty near […]
A story in Friday’s IBJ Daily quoted Mike Renninger, principal of Carmel-based consultancy Renninger & Associates, as saying he doesn’t foresee any bank acquisitions this year resulting from the stress tests. What it should have said is that larger, regional banks in Indianapolis likely won’t be a target.
Police in Lawrence Township are looking for the person or persons who broke into Skiles Test Elementary School early yesterday morning, vandalizing the building and ransacking dozens of classrooms. Police think the vandals were looking for small electronics or cash to steal. The school is in session today.
Noble Roman’s Inc. yesterday reported profit of $416,761, or 2 cents a share, in the first quarter, a 30-percent increase over the same period a year ago. The Indianapolis based franchisor of Noble Roman’s Pizza and Tuscano’s Italian Style Subs saw quarterly revenue slip to $1.9 million, down 20 percent from last year. Noble Roman’s […]
Health and safety officials released a new opinion poll this morning during a news conference at City Market showing support for a smoking ban in Marion County. The findings came from the Survey Research Center at IUPUI. The proposed ban would prohibit smoking in any workplace, including bars and bowling alleys.
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Central Indiana home sales continue to lag last year’s pace, but the inventory of available houses is beginning to slip, according to the latest residential real estate report from Indianapolis-based Landrigan & Co. Realtors. According to the report, which uses figures from the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors, […]
Delphi Corp. announced yesterday that 200 workers have been put out of work at its electronics and safety plant in Kokomo, the Kokomo Tribune reported. Auto-parts maker Delphi, the city’s second-largest employer, told the newspaper that 120 workers have been laid off indefinitely while 80 have been terminated. The company expects even more layoffs through […]
Icon Metal Forming LLC in Corydon notified the Indiana Department of Workforce Development yesterday that it is cutting 140 jobs at its automotive stamping plant. Icon, a division of Ontario-based Martinrea International Inc., blamed the cuts on the temporary shutdown of General Motors Corp. The cuts began May 6 and will be completed by […]
The second annual Race Around the Reservoir, a half-marathon and 5-kilometer run scheduled for May 16 at Geist Reservoir, is sold out, organizers announced yesterday. This year’s Geist Half Marathon, which follows a 13.1-mile course around the reservoir, drew 3,500 entrants, up from 2,500 for last year’s inaugural race. The 5K run drew 2,500 entrants, […]
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Noble Roman’s Inc. yesterday reported profit of $416,761, or 2 cents per share, in the first quarter, a 30-percent increase over the same period a year ago. The Indianapolis based franchisor of Noble Roman’s Pizza and Tuscano’s Italian Style Subs […]
The former treasurer of a central Indiana Humane Society chapter has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $65,000 from the organization. Fifty-nine-year-old Sherri L. Sullivan of Anderson pleaded guilty today in Madison Superior Court to three counts of forgery and four counts of theft. Board members for the Madison County Humane Society contacted police in […]
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Illinois-based Allstate Insurance Co. is working to recruit 55 new agency owners in Indiana by the end of 2010, the company said today. If successful, the recruitment push would boost Allstate’s Hoosier agent force by 25 percent, to 273. Allstate agents sell automobile, homeowners and other kinds of property […]
Manufacturing employment in Indiana has fallen 7.7 percent over the past year, according to the 2009 Indiana Manufacturers Directory, which is published annually by Manufacturers’ News Inc. of Evanston, Ill. MNI said Indiana lost 51,242 industrial jobs from March 2008 to March 2009 – the sharpest decline MNI ever has reported for the state. Indiana […]
Batesville-based Hillenbrand Inc., which provides caskets and other products to the funeral industry, today said its fiscal second-quarter profit rose 19 percent compared with the same period a year ago. For the period ending March 31, Hillenbrand earned $27.8 million, or 45 cents per share, meeting analysts’ expectations. Profit a year ago was $23.3 million, […]
