Arson investigators are trying to pinpoint the cause of a garage fire that destroyed seven cars and damaged five others early this morning at Union Laundry Lofts in the 700 block of Lexington Avenue, southeast of downtown. Neighbors say the same garage burned five or six years ago because of an electrical problem in one […]
The Franklin Township school board tonight is expected to fire a bus driver accused of driving students home while intoxicated. Police say Phillip Leslie’s blood-alcohol content was three times the legal limit when he was arrested earlier this month after completing his afternoon route. The board also is expected to approve the resignation of a […]
The Carmel-Clay school board will vote tonight on a new budget plan that could cost some 19 employees their jobs. Board members need to figure out a way to cut $1.85 million from their $90 million budget. Fox 59 will have more at 10 p.m.
Eli Lilly and Co. won U.S. approval for its drug Symbyax as a medicine for treatment-resistant depression, the company announced today. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration OK’d Symbyax as the first drug for the acute treatment of treatment-resistant depression. So-called TRD is depression that has not improved when treated by two other antidepressants. Symbyax […]
Dr. Patrick J. Loehrer Sr. has been named interim director of the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center. Loehrer replaces founding director Dr. Stephen Williams, who died of melanoma on Feb. 15. A national search is under way for a permanent replacement for Williams. Loehrer has been medical director of the cancer center […]
An Indiana administrative law judge has ordered a Hamilton County money manager accused of trying to fake his death in a plane crash to pay $304,000 in restitution to bilked investors and $280,000 in state fines. Judge Douglas Webber’s order, made public today, comes two months after he heard from investors who said they lost […]
Eli Lilly and Co. won U.S. approval for its drug Symbyax as a medicine for treatment-resistant depression, the company announced today. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration OK’d Symbyax as the first drug for the acute treatment of treatment-resistant depression. So-called TRD is depression that has not improved when treated by two other antidepressants. Symbyax […]
If the Pacers want the city to support it with more money, the organization needs to provide more information to the city,
and perhaps a future cut of event proceeds.
Sluggish condo sales have led developer Kosene & Kosene Residential to consider turning its latest downtown project, The
Maxwell,
into apartments.
A rough economy hasn’t calmed the grudge match between drugstore giants Walgreen Co. and CVS Caremark.
The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis has lost a major corporate gift less than two years from curtain time.
The Indianapolis Airport Authority is planning improvements to Gordon Graham Field in Hendricks County, including a runway extension and a second terminal.
American Cabaret Theatre is planning a comeback at an event space just a few blocks from Monument Circle.
Sheltering Wings provides emergency housing for women and children suffering from any form of domestic abuse.
Seattle-based Avvo Inc.’s Web site that enables consumers to research attorney backgrounds at no charge now includes Indiana
lawyers in its directory.
A national study finds that many community banks continue to prosper.
Call it March Madness-NBA style. The Indiana Pacers franchise needs $15 million a year beginning in 2010-presumably from the public-to fund the operation of Conseco Fieldhouse. The franchise says it can’t afford to operate the venue, where it claims to have lost money every year but one since moving in 10 years ago. That’s madness. […]
