Unemployment claims dip slightly in stagnant job market
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits was mostly unchanged last week, suggesting the job market isn’t getting much better.
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Manufacturer to beef up Frankfort operations, adding 160 jobs
LEP Special Fasteners Inc. will relocate parts of its management, sales and distribution functions from Elgin, Ill., and expand its current manufacturing plant in Frankfort by 250,000 square feet.
Tea party sees Lugar as best target in Senate
The tea party movement’s best remaining hope in 2012 for picking off an incumbent Republican in the Senate has boiled down to one state, Indiana, where six-term Sen. Richard Lugar still faces a challenge from the right.
Lugar raises $840K for Senate re-election bid
Sen. Richard Lugar has $3.8 million in the bank as he fights the tea party-backed Richard Mourdock to remain the Republican contender for his seat.
Charlie White seeks voter-fraud probe of Bayhs
Indiana's beleaguered Indiana secretary of state requested an independent prosecutor to look into his allegations of vote fraud and homestead fraud against former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh and his wife, Susan.
Senate nears vote to defeat Obama’s jobs bill
Despite President Barack Obama's exhortations, the Senate prepared to swiftly kill his jobs package Tuesday and the White House and congressional leaders were already moving on to other ways to cut the nation's painfully high unemployment without raising taxes.
CIB contributes $500,000 toward tourism effort
The gift will enable the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association to continue an annual marketing campaign aimed at attracting Midwestern visitors to the city.
Printing manufacturer to expand in Tipton, create 35 jobs
Bottcher America Corp. will invest $2.1 million to purchase new gear and create a 30,000-square-foot addition to its current facilities.
Nature part of plans for former Newport Chemical Depot
Conservationists have complained that industrial development planned for part of the 7,100-acre site would destroy all but 44 acres of the state's largest restored black-soil tallgrass prairie.
Greenwood selling old police cars, stoplights
The central Indiana city is planning to sell some old police cars that it had been parking outside banks in hope of discouraging would-be robbers.
Smoking ban in Delaware County bars, clubs upheld
Delaware Circuit Judge Marianne Vorhees denied a request to block an enhanced smoking ordinance passed by Delaware County commissioners in August.
Indiana drawing more people, businesses across state lines
Indiana saw more people move to the state than leave between 2005 and 2009 despite a decreased mobility nationwide attributed to the recession.
Charges filed in theft from development group
The former associate director of an eastern Indiana economic development group faces felony charges in a $150,000 embezzlement that has threatened the agency’s future.
City plans more bike lane construction
Mayor Greg Ballard has rolled out plans for an additional 75 miles of trails and bike lanes to be built throughout Indianapolis by 2015.
Economy added 103,000 jobs in September
The burst of hiring followed a sluggish summer for the economy—and at least temporarily calms fears of a new recession that have hung over Wall Street and the nation for weeks.
Study: Defense spending fuels 56,000 Indiana jobs
A new report says that federal military and security spending resulted in $4.4 billion in contracts for Indiana companies last year.
Indiana Dem chairman calls on lottery director to quit
The head of the Indiana Democratic Party wants the director of the Hoosier Lottery to resign after an admission that it overspent on its new headquarters.
Indiana doles out $60 million interest payment to feds
The state owes $2 billion in federal unemployment insurance debt.
Startup dangles visas in return for funding, jobs
A new enterprise in the Muncie area hopes to capitalize on wealthy foreigners’ thirst for U.S. residency.
State’s jobless to get six more weeks of benefits
Unemployed Indiana residents can file for an additional six weeks of jobless benefits beginning Oct. 16.