Manufacturing giant 3M Co. alleges a Nevada company and its representatives tried to “perpetrate a false and deceptive price-gouging scheme” by offering to sell the state of Indiana respirators for $285 million to $14.25 billion.
The move comes as airlines big and small contemplate how to comply with social-distancing recommendations in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
A company official said it’s “preposterous” to think the company would reopen its malls, especially those in its home state, while stay-at-home orders are still in place.
Taylor Simpson says the coronavirus outbreak is “the perfect launchpad” for his Indianapolis startup, The Halo App. If that sounds cold, it’s not, he insists. Simpson explained that helping people has always been his firm’s primary mission. This month, in response to the pandemic, Simpson is putting his money where his mouth is
Investors continue to weigh a brutal economic picture against hopes for a coronavirus treatment and an eventual end to lockdown measures across the world.
Any easing of Indiana’s statewide stay-at-home order won’t limit the authority of city or county officials from imposing tighter restrictions in their attempts to slow the coronavirus, the governor said Thursday.
NASCAR has set guidelines to safely hold the events using CDC guidelines on social distancing and personal protective equipment. Only essential personnel will be permitted to attend the events.
Vice President Mike Pence toured the General Motors facility in Kokomo, which had been closed due to the coronavirus and was brought back online in mid-April to produce critical care ventilators for hospitals around the country.
A survey of about 350 members of the National Federation of Independent Businesses found 59% want state and local governments to lift stay-at-home orders immediately and let companies reopen.
Gov. Eric Holcomb recommended that Hoosiers concerned about returning to work go to their employer “and try to work these things through and make sure they understand and realize where you’re coming from.”
The company, which shut down some of its production lines beginning March 30, said the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing it to cut 272 jobs.
The Indiana State Department of Health said Thursday that the cumulative death toll in the state rose to 1,007, up from 964 the previous day.
The Commerce Department said the spending decline was the sharpest monthly drop on records that go back to 1959.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett’s chief of staff, Thomas Cook, said Thursday morning that Castleton Square Mall, Circle Centre and the Fashion Mall at Keystone won’t likely be allowed to reopen Saturday under Marion County orders.
Roughly 30.3 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the six weeks since the coronavirus outbreak began forcing millions of employers to close their doors and slash their workforces.
The tally paints a grim picture of the scale of the outbreak in homes tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm. More than 2,700 Medicare-certified nursing homes had publicly reported cases as of Tuesday.
There are growing worries among school officials that fewer students will return this fall. And in a state where funding is doled out per student, a drop in enrollment would mean an immediate financial hit to schools.
Among the concerns is that people—employees and consumers alike—will remain too wary of contracting the coronavirus to return to anything resembling normal economic behavior.
Tests will be administered from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday at Eastern Star Church’s main campus at 5750 E. 30th St. to address the disparities in the impact of COVID-19 among African Americans and other high-risk populations.
For an eight-hour period that began at 4 p.m. Wednesday, the PPP loan application portal is being reserved only for the nation’s smallest lenders: those with assets of less than $1 billion.
