Winds are expected to calm down tonight after reaching peaks of 60 mph yesterday. The gusts uprooted trees and knocked down branches, causing property damage around central Indiana and knocking out power to thousands of Hoosiers. Indiana Michigan Power reported 10,000 customers without power this morning. Duke Energy and Indianapolis Power & Light reported 6,000 […]
Indianapolis police are looking for a man they say shot a 16-year-old girl in the face. Robert Johnson, 18, is wanted in connection with last night’s shooting, which happened about 7 in the 900 block of North Oakland Avenue. Investigators say the girl recognized the shooter and was able to give police his name. She […]
Indianapolis police say someone stole an ATM from a Speedway gas station at 30th Street and Guion Road on the northwest side about 4 a.m. today. Investigators say the thieves backed up a sport utility vehicle, wrapped a cable around the machine and dragged it out of the closed store. Officers followed a trail of […]
Mayor Greg Ballard announced yesterday the creation of a city office that will combine civil licensing and permitting functions into one entity. The Office of Code Enforcement is part of an effort to make Indianapolis safer and more livable by better enforcing environmental and other quality-of-life-related laws, the mayor said. “From the outset, I’ve been […]
California’s Anthem Blue Cross, a subsidiary of Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc., will pay a $1 million fine and an estimated $14 million in reimbursements for medical expenses paid out of pocket by 2,330 people dropped by the insurer. The California Department of Insurance is set to announce the deal today, according to the Los Angeles Times. […]
Southbound Interstate 65 from I-465 to Southport Road could remain closed until midafternoon as crews clean up after an overturned tanker leaked fuel. The tanker ran off the road this morning about 5:30 a.m. at I-65 South’s 104 mile marker. No one was injured. Authorities are still investigating the cause.
The Indiana House Committee on Public Policy is expected to vote today on legislation that could ban smoking inside public places. According to an American Cancer Society poll, 64 percent of Hoosiers support a law to prohibit smoking in enclosed public areas. But groups representing Indiana’s casinos and taverns oppose the measure. They say a […]
The Indianapolis Colts are moving their training camp from Terre Haute to Anderson, according to officials of the city of Anderson and Anderson University. It’s just a matter of working out the logistics, they said. Colts officials declined to comment. Read more about it in The Score, IBJ’s sports business blog.
Evansville-based Mead Johnson Nutrition, the world’s largest maker of baby formula, raised $720 million in the first U.S. initial public offering since November. The company, a unit of New York-based Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., began trading on the New York Stock Exchange this morning under the ticker symbol “MJN,” with shares opening at $26. Mead Johnson […]
California’s Anthem Blue Cross, a subsidiary of Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc., will pay a $1 million fine and an estimated $14 million in reimbursements for medical expenses paid out of pocket by 2,330 people dropped by the insurer. The California Department of Insurance is set to announce the deal today, according to the Los Angeles Times. […]
An automobile-parts manufacturer in Columbus with 500 employees will shut down unless union members make concessions, according to The Republic of Columbus. Columbus Components Group, which operates in a former Arvin Industries plant, said it would begin closing down March 1 unless employees agree to a 5-percent pay cut, among other concessions, the newspaper said. […]
State Sen. Luke Kenley (R-Noblesville) said yesterday that both the Indianapolis Colts and Indiana Pacers are interested in helping the city’s Capital Improvement Board dig out of its $43 million annual operating deficit. Kenley, chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, said he has met with each team’s representatives to address budget shortfalls plaguing the […]
Hamilton Southeastern’s school-redistricting plan has been approved. The school board passed the plan in a 5-1 vote last night. Supporters said the plan was necessary to balance enrollment as Riverside School prepares to open a wing that will accommodate 1,000 additional students. The new boundaries take effect this fall.
Jamestown was expected to give a hero’s welcome today to a firefighter injured in an interstate accident in late December. Fred Long, 46, was pinned by a semi after responding to a slide-off of a sport-utility vehicle on I-74. Long was released from rehabilitation today. To mark the occasion, Boone County firefighters organized a morning […]
An Indiana House Committee will consider a bill tomorrow that would let schools knock 10 days off the required 180-day school year. To compensate, administrators would be required to add about 20 minutes to each school day. A parents’ group called Save Our Summers is lobbying for the bill, which would also require an 11-week […]
Spring Mill Elementary parents talked with Washington Township officials this morning in the wake of fatal bus accident Friday that claimed the life of 10-year-old Christopher Michael Beltz. Superintendent Dr. James Mervilde discussed bus safety during today’s meeting as well as the need to more closely inspect bus driver records. School officials confirmed one of […]
Three of the world’s largest drugmakers, including Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co., are being accused of fixing prices for erectile dysfunction drugs in Switzerland, according to Bloomberg News. Lilly, Pfizer Inc. and Bayer AG, rivals in the male impotence-drug market, fixed prices in Switzerland and should be punished, a panel of the Swiss Competition Commission, […]
Falling demand for wireless devices and discounted prices caused locally based Brightpoint Inc.’s revenue to drop 36 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared with the same period a year ago, the company said today. The Indianapolis-based mobile technology distributor reported a loss of $344.4 million on $1 billion of revenue for the […]
Indianapolis-based medical device startup NICO Corp. yesterday announced it has raised another $1.73 million from investors. NICO was founded last year by the same core group of entrepreneurs who formed automated breast-biopsy device-maker Suros Surgical Systems Inc., one of the fastest-growing companies in Indianapolis history. Just six years after starting Suros in 2000, they sold […]
Funeral arrangements for a fourth grade boy killed by a school bus are being kept private. Family members will gather today to remember Christopher Michael Beltz, 10, who was struck by the bus Friday morning at Spring Mill Elementary School. The family is asking interested Hoosiers to make donations to the Northview Christian Life Church […]
